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Richard S. 2-5-12

glaros — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:10:31 +0000

After almost a year and a half I have in my hands what I have been so eagerly awaiting! I have not fired it yet, but it went together great! I had to file a bit here and there, and I highly recommend a Dremel tool for making clean work of some of the adjustments. The quality of the plastic used is very good, and it is even more clear to me now just how much work went into this project. Thank you for persevering against the neigh-sayers and thank you even more for such a nice product! Especially as your first offering. I will be placing a second order shortly! I look forward to your next offering and I can say that I would pay up front and wait a year and a half again!

Thanks Again,
Richard S.

SKS Bullpup Rifle Review SGWorks

glaros — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:22:31 +0000

SKS Bullpup Rifle Review SGWorks

MDPrepper

John H. 10-19-11

glaros — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:24:12 +0000

While I waited for the stock, I got a beautiful trigger job (no creep at all – smoooooth), and replaced the firing pin with a stainless steel spring-loaded pin. I plan to add a 30mm TruGlo, remove the architecture on the barrel and swap flash hiders this weekend, then it’s off to the range!

Oh, this former full-size Yugoslavian is now 3 1/2 inches shorter than my Ruger Mini-14!

Let me know when orders are caught up … this needs a twin.

North Carolina

Jim L.

glaros — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:24:32 +0000

I just received my kit in the mail and it was worth the wait. I had to file a little here and there and It definitely took a little bit of time for the first time assembly but once I took it to the range, wow is all I can say. This is a hole new animal. The accuracy is the same but having the weight in your shoulder makes this gun some much easier to carry and fire. I had a couple other SKS users at the range with multiple different after market stocks and they couldn’t believe how much better the gun felt and looked. I have tried 3 other stocks myself and they are all nothing compared to this.

Thank you for a great product at a great price.

California

Matt F. 8-29-11

glaros — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 06:28:33 +0000

I love my new stock set. . .well worth the wait. . .it’s quite the tackdriver now.

Great product. . .I read about the continued delays but don’t give up. . .and someday consider a kit for AKs I’d be willing to wait another year for one of those.

South Carolina

Andre V. 8-16-11

glaros — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:22:13 +0000

The stock-kit is delivered today august 16.

The Dutch Custom Organisation didn’t check the package.

It was straight delivered to my adress.

First impression: marboulous piece of work.

Perfect in production of parts en totally finnish.

EXCELLENT!!!!

Tomorrow I will start with the rebuilding of my Russian SKS.

I let you know and make a picture after completing this.

Thank you very much, I’m very glad with it.

Grtz,

Andre V.

Kampen, The Netherlands.

74-10 Ray

glaros — Sat, 21 May 2011 07:19:28 +0000

This one snuck by us! SGW

California/Arizona

James S.

glaros — Tue, 17 May 2011 12:00:23 +0000

I was one of the customers that believed in your dream to build this amazing stock. I paid for my stock almost a year before I actually received it and was very patient during the set backs and so forth. Anyway i really wanted to thank you again and also wanted to share my picture of my SKS I painted it with a desert camouflage design and it turned out perfect I just had to send you guys a picture of it. I am always very proud to show off your bullpup stock to my family friends and at the range.

Ed R.

glaros — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:54:00 +0000

I called you after a friend and I were able to get your Stock on my rather balky Chinese SKS Carbine about 4 weeks ago.. We had to do a bit of fitting, but after about two hours, and it was together.. I couldn’t get any of the SKS magazines, on hand, to work.. You suggested TAPCO. I purchased a few, and after another balky start, they all worked.. Today was the first time I was able to try it out.. Loved it, like most Bullpups, rather heavy until you get it into shooting position, and then it seems almost weightless.

Put 40 rounds through it a lot faster than I had planned.. Had slapped a cheap red dot right on the rail (needs a riser), but pretty much right on target… Thought the noise might be serious, but was so excited to try it out, forgot to put on my muffs.. Although it was a bit loud, my ears only buzzed for a few… Glad my fears weren’t realized, especially with my right ear very near the ejection port.. Think the little cover on top of the receiver, helped deflect the blast.. With the muffs it was about the same as shooting a regular stocked SKS, or less.. Easy to shoot, with about an 8# trigger pull. I had been a bit concerned about how the cable trigger pull mechanism was going to work.. Not one hangup, or burp…

Thanks again for making an old SKS a fun rifle to shoot again, for minimal investment..

Keeping me informed as to the trials and tribulations of small company bringing a new product to market, helped pass the year long wait.. I felt like I was tuning in to the SG Works Reality Show every few weeks, that was reality.. Almost everything that could go wrong, seemed to.. You’re not the first to tell pretty much the same story, but you told it well, kept your wits, and pulled it off…

I do have one more question. I was cleaning it up tonight and realized there is no provision for attaching a sling on the rear of he the new stock. Any suggestions??

Hope you sell a bunch of them, not a better aftermarket SKS stock out there, for anywhere near the investment, if at all..

West Virginia

Dave

glaros — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:46:52 +0000

Further to phone conversation earlier 4.28.11 here is my endorsement of this excellent product.

The “SKSS”

I found on Gun Broker a gunsmith local to me “RP’s Firearms Repair” in Lavon TX who is specializing in building the SKSS (What do ya call this thang?) and I went over to see what he was doing. WOW…I was so impressed, I immediately got Robert to build me one…his way

He took my Chinese T56 screw in barrel, removed the barrel, cut it down to 16 1/2″ (where the barrel is heavier material), recrowned the muzzle,threaded the end to 1/2x28tpi (so it can take bored out AR accessories), opened the gas port for better reliability, milled the bolt bottom so mags can be detached with the bolt closed, used a Duracoat finish…and other tweaks with his assembly knowledge (getting all the adjustments right and test firing to make sure) and this is the result. Robert claims he has done accuracy tests and found this barrel mod to be the most accurate.

I topped it off with a NCStar 3/4″ throw lever riser and a BEC (Cabella’s) 3-9×28 IR scope. The riser I had to mill .030″ from it to fit the SGW weaver base (width) and have since found out all I needed to do was glue a piece of credit card into the NCStar riser…doh!

Okay WOW factor comes in when firing it, with a ATI trigger job (following DVD instruction) and the advantage of the SGW trigger assy., I got a trigger pretty close to how I like it, and not how the Chinese do. Groups are very good, the gun is like a glove, so comfortable to shoot, I shoot this both eyes open as it has 4 1/2″ eye relief, and I can quickly find my POA.

I chose this system after considering others:

Bushmaster bullpup .223 (Bush disaster…the Dear’s best friend), reliability a issue, accuracy not renowned , limited to .223

AK47 2 versions from Norinco, 1 is the all metal early import which sells for $1500+ , expensive, poor balance, stamped tin receiver which contributes to wandering zero, poor trigger not much can be done to improve it, most for sale have had 100 rounds or less fed through them because they are junk. 2nd type made with hideous plastic stock and again though in the $650 range, not much better than junk.

Valmet bullpup .308…try finding one!, and under $2000

Kel-tech bullpup .308 interesting design, ejects through a tube out the front, Watch Youtube for the Slo-Mo film of the cutaway firing…imagine a jam, they do happen and usually when you need it to be reliable, not on a relaxed sighting in day at the range. To unjam it is a fieldstrip and what else? datached case rim? dirt? and then the price $1200

Mini 14 & 30 in a Muzzlelite bullpup kit…bad gun in a junk stock with a trigger only a Gorilla could love…accuracy? you’ll have a tighter group with a shotgun!.

Weird caliber bullpups= expensive ammo!, I want a good commonly available low recoil rifle round, and easily/cheaply available magazines.

So then there is a light at the end of the tunnel, The SKSS ( I Like this name so this is what I call mine).

Here’s a tip, start off by buying the book or going online to sites such as http://surplusrifle.com/sks/index.asp and armed with information, select a suitable candidate for conversion with fore knowledge so you have a excellent result. I chose to use a Chinese T56 with all milled parts, chrome lined screw in barrel (because I wanted the short barrel conversion). The later pinned barrel commercial Norinco’s in the standard length, Cowboy carbines and paratroopers are cheap knockoff’s with stamped parts, but to their credit many shorties are converted to use AK Mags, but they are known to be not as good as the earlier military T56. The duck bill mag versions can be converted to a Tapco system which makes the mags more like AK mags, and the modification can be easily reversed, and the T56′s can be converted to use AK mags, but this is a lot of machining, and a nightmare not recommended to reverse it.

So let’s look at this standard platform.

It uses fixed 10 & 20 round mags, detachable Tapco 20 round mags, with a bit of fitting 75 & 100 round drum mags, remember that it can be reloaded with stripper clips as quickly as changing a mag (this is fitted with a quick mag release feature), and bulk wise you can carry more full stripper clips than mags AK or duck bill.

If it has a malfunction due to ammo quality, just a quick rack of the bolt holding the gun sideways usually clears it, panic over!

It field strips easily, with modern methods, a bore snake and a couple drops of oil, and it’s back to business

The Shernick trigger link uses advantage gained by a different leverage point to lighten the trigger pull, with a trigger job, on the standard as supplied SKS trigger group, it can easily be classed as a good trigger, though it’ll never be as good as a set trigger.

No gas blows around your nose area when it’s fired, that’s not pleasant having to breathe that constantly, muzzle blast is low, and with (as fitted on mine )a Bored out AR muzzle break, muzzle flip is negligible. With the 1/2x28tpi threads a silencer may be fitted.

The Shernick stock is not only a thing of beauty, it is ergonomically very good. It points naturally from a arm pit hold (careful not to place your arm over the ejection port) from a tactical harness shoulders quickly and naturally. Aiming without sights like a shotgun across the top of the weaver rail, I could hit 1 square foot targets set at 20 meters easily.

This has a long weaver rail on which can be mounted a wide range of optics just as available for AR flat tops. Due to length of peoples necks, there are risers available in 1/2″, 3/4″, 1″, and 1 1/2″ rise. Lengths such as the full length riser from http://www.yhm.net/store/rails.html or you can use one (or two if you want a long riser like the YHM) of the cheaper 5″ long risers from other manufacturers. This is important that you fit the 3-9 optics to fit you like a glove for quick natural aim and eye relief, and comfort, that when the gun goes to your shoulder with both eyes open you see picture in picture with a cross hair in the center, without jamming your cheek into the stock and craning your neck at some cramped weird angle!

If you are using a 1x optic system you would see a red dot on the target, both eyes open.

The range of ammo for the SKS, well what is the 7.62×39 round? developed by the USSR from the .44 Kurtz German WW2 round, necked to .312″ to take the .303 bullet…yes the versatile .303!

The ammo is average $5/20rnds, it comes as FMJ, SP, HP, in throw away steel cases.

For reloading, brass is readily available, and LEE dies are excellent and affordable. It uses a small amount of powder compared to other .30 cals., so 1 lb of powder goes a long way!

Bullets can be cold water quenched cast from wheel weights, or may be purchased as FMJ, Armor piercing, Incendiary/tracer, exploding, soft point, hollow point and in different grain weights, also this round may be sabot’d(I have not done this only read about this) to .22 & .17 cal., though I would rely on these fed singly. There is also a pistol powder load for subsonic ammo.

This gun is great to show beginners how to shoot, as by just flipping up the loading hatch, single round by single round may be fed, the bolt holding open after each fired shot.

The best being kept for last is the price of this incredible platform, for me it was $500 + a provided SKS, which I had a extra/spare all milled T56 that I got for about $200.

As I mentioned earlier I had a gunsmith who is specializing in these conversions build mine, with a bunch of modifications, and it was ready in 1 week!

Robert from RP’s thpere@infostations.com builds a amazing SKSS!

I have shot mine, and I know where my money went. I have always liked the SKS, now I have a new respect for it because of this new incarnation. I wonder if there is a Russian in the Kremlin with one of these jumping up and down in a rage that they sold all their SK’s at junk arsenal clearance price…when all they had to do was redesign it to the awesome gun the SKSS is.

Shernick took a while, but got this right, I can find one thing to criticize, that being the little wire and clip which holds the takedown pin, it could get hung up…but that’s the only thing about this system I can pick at. WOW factor at the range, when this comes out of the box is absolute! AR’s get cleared and put down as their handlers abandon them to come and drool over the SKSS, carry it around the gun show and you are pestered enough that if you got paid $1/time you would leave with a weeks pay!

I conclude (speaking for myself) that this version is excellent. The long awaited SK for this millennium. I recommend it.

The losers

Disclaimer: I was not paid to promote this product, by either SGW or RP’s Firearms repair, or to malign products made by other manufacturers. These are my opinions based on experience(s) I have had with guns either that I owned or were leant to me for trial purpose, and opinions I have repeated from friends who shared their experiences with me. I share my opinions and experience with this product because I am suitably impressed and feel that such a good US product should receive the honest review it deserves.

Dave from Texas, satisfied customer/owner.