Hi everyone,
I introduced myself earlier on the intro forum, but I wanted to get a head start on my sks test post. I plan on taking my sks, recently returned to me by Murray's, to the range tomorrow morning at 9:00. The weather report states that it should be below 40 degrees at that time with a wind chill. I'm going to try to include as many details as possible and sort of do a pseudoscience experiment. Now in previous attempt at the range my SKS failed after 40 shots and popped several primers, which I was unaware of until I returned home. Murray's has been great through my whole learning process, I wasn't aware of popped primers when I bought the gun. I sent them the gun and they got it done in about 2 days and mailed it home to me, total time was about 7 days counting me shipping it all the way from Northern VA to Texas.
Other than the work that Murray's has done to it in accordance with their new treatment I have not modified the rifle in any way. I do however clean it every time I shoot it, no exceptions. The only thing I've done to it was paint the stock black because the wood was horribly disfigured(carved up) and there was no way to rectify it. Oh and I put a pad on the back by Limbsaver to increase the length of pull by an inch. I will be shooting without the bayonet or cleaning rod, not that it makes a difference, but I wanted to be thorough on here. I'm going to fire 100 rounds through it. I plan on doing rapid fire as well as taking my time with a few of them to get a feel for my accuracy. I have about 40 rounds of Tul, walmart special cheap ammo, 20 rounds of Golden tiger, 20 rounds of Wolf polyformance, and 20 rounds of winchester. Hopefully I can snap some pictures and post them tomorrow. I'll see if there are any other flavors of x39 at the range when I show up tomorrow at 9, it may be a few more than 100 rounds. All of the ammunition I purchased came from different stores. One came from a hardware store, one from walmart, and two from two different firearms stores.