Nice tinkering, but I still feel bad for the donor rifles. Looks like there's at least 1 Russian. PAX
They're almost all Russians. And before you Americans start blubbering about the "collector value," I'd like to remind the audience that collector value is a market condition. You are stuck behind an embargo, but in the rest of the world almost no Tula SKS's have any particular value.
It doesn't matter about the rifles Nationality, they could be "cheap" Chinese, I still feel bad for them. And I see no particular advantage to having detachable 5 shot mags, or mags in general, but that's a personal preference. PAX
Pax, I am NOT being sarcastic or tossing water on you, but, IF something were going to happen here to me, I want as much firepower as the law allows. "JUST ONE" guy won't likely be entering my house. It will be "multiples", whatever that means, numbers wise. Read the news reports, 3-4-5 even 10 guys bust into a home. Or 6-7-8 guys rob a guy on a commuter train. It isn't 1 sneaky sob anymore. I carry a Beretta PX4, 15+1 and a spare mag. ALL hollow points. If I go, I'm taking as many as I can with me. However, we will go a different direction on that "celestial road". Just my worthless .02cents worth.
I'm in Kali, so the mag capacity legality is moot, and in my little ag community, major crime is virtually non existent. Not saying it can't happen, but the odds are that a different, more effluent neighborhood, in another city would be targeted. I have big mags for my 9's, 5.56 & HK91, just because, but my thought process isn't along those line as a daily necessity, or for the SKS in general. Although, I have a mess of single stack 10s that I'd like to adapt one rifle for. Also, I see any scenario as a "The Luck of the Draw". PAX
I live in the "Memorial area" in Houston off I-10/Dairy Ashford. This area is referred to as "the oil corridor". People say where is that? I tell them I live in an area full of rich, white, old folks. I am white and part of the "old" as well. I don't fight near as well as I used to, but, my aim is still pretty darn good. It helps to have a 130 pound Great Dane walking at my side also. People who live here will cross the street to stay out of range. People who know her cross the street to love on her. When the doorbell rings, she goes "HULK". It is a frightening sound if you don't know she's here. A friend of mine has an AR15 pistol with the 100 round drums on it. That is a wicked gun. Remember the Bond movie with the opening scene the "bad guy" turned loose with one. I didn't think he was ever going to run dry.
Our hamlet is mostly affluent as well, and street folks generally know it, but they also know we have Johnny-on-the-spot law. And our geography is conducive to containment. We're at the southern end of the county, bordered with a river, and no real through roads, other than the hiway. Not much riff-raft, no homeless. I have wolves too. It's intimidating when their hair and tails stand straight up. PAX
