I'll be seeing UPS Monday or Tuesday with the stock and the new spring/bolt cover with a Weaver rail on it. The new spring/bolt cover is supose to be oversized so it will fit tight when fitted. I hope so! Otherwise it's a waste of money to put a scope on. Speaking of scopes, I'm getting the run around on the one that I bought off of Ebay. The story I'm getting is that NCStar sent them the wrong scopes and the right one "should" be in any day.....yatta, yatta, yatta.... The one I ordered was a 3-9x 42mm Mil Dot. It looks like I could upgrade to the same scope with range finder and laser but I'm not sure about the range finder part. I need to call them today to see if they are open. The other issue is the one I ordered was spec.ed to be under 6" and this other one is nearly 8". I was wanting that shorter scope because of the way this thing slings brass. According to my guestimates I'd be ok with the shorter scope.

I got the Tapco stock and installed the action in it. What a huge improvement in looks and handling. I also got the recoil spring dust cover with the see threw scope mount. I had to hand fit that to the receiver. It's pretty good but if the weather is nice this weekend I'll get out my wire feed welder and run a bead on either side of the lug on the back of the dust cover and then hand fit that to the receiver. There is enough of a gap that I can still move it back and forth just a tad. It's tight but I don't want ANY movement at all. I was on the Ruger site today checking out their ranch rifle. I'm way ahead of that game with a ton more features and way less money. I'm still waiting for those idiots at Outdoorbunker to ship my scope, spotting scope, and site adjustment tool for the SKS. I'm about ready to have PayPal get my money back from them. I've already lodged a dispute claim with Ebay and PayPal. It's getting ugly! Funny thing is they have a great rating. I've called them a number of times but all I get is the run-around. I am totally in to this rifle and once I get it all together and the bugs worked out I'll be doing a Duracoat paint job on all the metal after I get that all smoothed out.

Having fun in Colorado

Wait! Wait!!......
HOLY MOLEY!
It's been scanned in!!!
MOVEMENT!!!!
My scope is coming!!!!

YES!!

Fantastic!
Man I like the SKS rifles, there's a ton of things you can do to them. They are not the ultimate target rifle or anything but they can do pretty darn well if you put a little time into it. LOL! Yeah I'd say you come in way under the Mini 14 Ranch Rifle. I like those things but not enough to pay the money on one. I'd rather have an AR for that money. I'm wanting to do a new coat job to mine too I think. But I'm kind of looking to get another AK and fool around with that too so I really don't know what I'm going to do. My SKS is a total blast to shoot now that it's been modified to my liking.The 7.62x39 round is a pretty good round too.

You get yours done how you want you're going to really like it. I have had a lot of fun with mine. It's pretty cool to breathe some new life into some of those old Commie guns..heh