Bullpup Anyone? WWII relic becomes Halo gun.

So some may know the raggedy old SKS rifle the soviets used before the Avtomat Kakashnakov came along. Well, it used to be you could go into your local guns store and buy one from Yugoslavia for $70. The rpice has gone up some, but its still a reliable, accurate rifle that fires the same 7.62x39 ammo the AK-47 needs.

And now, you can buy a kit to make it look like a cross between Halo's Assault and Battle rifles. Best part is that because the SKS uses an internal 10-round magazine, its legal in NY and CA. ('Sportster' SKS rifles use AK mags).

http://cbrps.com/Products.html
(scroll down to see what I'm talking about)

dont SKSes have free floating pins and can cause accidental misfiring?I also know that its prone to jamming alot.

The mosin nagant looks sick though

they do look like they could be made to look like a halo gun. lol wow, didnt know, and i think the barret-50 cal. (not sure if im saying this right) looks like the sniper rifle too.
:D

ill buy then mod it then mod it again cus i can =3

Cool gun... I'll buy it then become a superhero.

@Argentine
Dunno about the SKS jamming. On youtube, nutnancy filmed a shoot with him and his buddies, and one of his friends, an ex-Marine, brought a mint SKS with him and had nothing but flowering praise for the rifle. Either way, this seems exclusively like a Steyr TP9, a 'fun gun'. A completely fukken badass fun-gun, but a fun-gun nontheless.

@LoneOtakuSword
The only issue is that the Halo BR has some kind of wierd magazine that can't work without some kind of micro-drive like how an fighter-jet's gun feeds.
And the Sniper actually isn't based on the Barret. It looks like it, but it's much closet to the South African Denel NTW-20. (20mm caliber!)

Uh, Assault rifles for seventy bucks?

Is there some kind of hitch there, is it easy to do maintenance or..?

Looking at cost section, cheapest rifle is 235 bucks.

@Callonia: I don't read $75 at all, sv51macross mentioned that you used to be able to buy rifles at that cheap number, but not anymore.

Awesome rifles, totally reminescent of Halo rifles. However, not only the Halo rifles are more advanced in their ammo counters, they feature boxy-like magazines that can hold up to a whopping 60 bullets. These rifles still feature a shaft magazine.

That Mosin Nagant looks badass.

As for Steyr rifles, they might've been the most well know example of the bullpup design, but other rifles like the FAMAs also feature the bullpup design.

Just type SKS jamming or misfiring in google.
I seen a few youtube vids about SKS jamming and it was featured in mythbusters if SKS would misfire under loud sound.

Cool looking Mosin Nagant remake!

I own a gun. Its for home defense and pratice shooting.

My great gramps uses the SKS during the Chinese civil war and the Korean war, he never really liked it. Also, it doesnt really counts as an "Assault rifle" does it, rather a semi-auto carbine due to the short round and lack of automatic fire. He had also used a Japanese rifle to som extent in the civil war.

I know the SKS isn't that cheap anymore. Impact Guns lists it at $400. the SKS conversion is $350 ($290 w/o picatinny rail, but I want optics mountability) And the SKS didn't have a shaft magazine (Mosin-Nagant?) The SKS is a semiauto with an internal, stripper-clip fed 10rnd magazine. Alot of them were 'sportsterized' though and accept AK magazines.
And the Halo AR has 32rnds, the BR has 36, where do you get 60?



The youtube clips I'll check, but Mythbusters? YGBSM, that's a joke, right?

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Also, just realized something. the SKS's safety is on the trigger. What provision do the Center Balance Rifles (linked in op post) or the SGWorks bullpup conversions have for actuating the safety? Or do they have an additional one? hmmm

Its not a joke.
It was the 2009 season and ep number 122.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_%282009_season%29

They were doing a myth on a russian gangster placed his SKSes in his back seat and blasted music so hard that the guns went off.

They subjected the 3 SKSes through all sorts of sounds,frequency etc.
Kari,Grant and Tory conducted the experiment.

LMAO! I remember that!

And they proved it a myth! I think that if a good condition unit is kept clean and decent ammo is used then it should be okay.

prior before testing it,they shot off a few mags,and the gun jammed on them on several occasions.The guns are in good conditions too.

I think for ornamental purposes its okay but for shooting at a range,could be annoying.

Did a little forum-lurking and found a few things out:

-Yugoslavian SKS's were not made with chrome-plated bits, wear faster.
-Yugoslavian SKS's were packed with Cosmoline, which requires an hour-long 'boil-off' (literally, put the receiver in a pot and boil it for an hour, normal cleaning won't get rid of it.)
-Often a SKS will have a failing gas block seal that can be rectified by making a new o-ring with a paper clip
-Yugoslavian SKS's sometimes are picky about cartridge power due to first item on list.
-It has been found that 'sportsterized' Yugos modified to work with AK magazines are not always reliable and that feeding issues are possible, the SKS receiver was only made to work with the internal 10-rounder.

Point learned: Buy genuine Soviet!

LOL no cheap copies?

Makes sense, as the nutnfancy clip with the SKS-touting Marine I mentioned; his SKS was a genuine Soviet gun. So yeah, no cheap knock-offs, unless you get a Chinese one, those'll have the chrome on them at least.

Damn...Impact Guns lists Zastava made SKS's. Zastava is in Serbia, which used to be Yugoslavia...so no chrome plating.