r/canadaguns • u/JaxIsLoud • May 16 '26

Feets / Collection / My build AK at home SKS

My bubba sks with duckbill delete.

First time using this "plate carrier" felt silly still had fun.

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u/Educational-Bad2307 May 16 '26

The SBI mag release is good but I found that it made my trigger worst so I ditched it, you have the same problem?

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u/JaxIsLoud May 16 '26

No but I also have a reduced weight spring. So not really a apples to apples. There's a guy on gunpost selling them comes with 2 weight springs. I have the lighter one in there. Trigger pulls super light till you get to where it breaks and then breaks super clean.

Not ever SKS is equal either. There is about an hour long video on YouTube where a guy shows how to do a trigger job on the SKS. Mine feels good with the reduced weight and a clean and grease so I'm not super concerned about making it any better. But if yours sucks it might be something to look into or having a gunsmith do.

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u/Educational-Bad2307 May 16 '26

Hey thanks for the tips eh, yea definitely gonna look into getting a lighter mag spring, and do a detailed strip for the trigger group and clean (trigger job if I have to). Good to know the SBI mag release and a good trigger can co-exist tho

Interesting thought that came from this: maybe the saying that sks are inconsistent are the mere result of people not fully removing the cosmolines to varing degrees, like I havent done the detailed strip and clean on mine so I can't really say the trigger pull that I'm experiencing is the actual trigger pull of my gun, maybe the people that says that theirs is not accurate is simply because of that

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u/JaxIsLoud May 16 '26

No problem. I bought mine off a guy who used to instruct the Canadian safety course. He told me this was his target rifle for years before it served in the classroom. (Bastard didn't tell me he hand the firing pin in backwards so I learned how to disassemble and resemble bolt carrier in the bush. Lol)

First thing I did when I bought it was completely disassemble and clean the shit out of it. And did that every time I shot it for the first few times I went out.

I'd recommend spending the 45 minutes and watching this video and then at least disassemble and clean your trigger group. There's a few things this guy suggests outside of the seer modifications that I did and then make sure it's got some lubricant on the moving parts.