SKS with AK Mag question

[waterdoctor]

I have a SKS that takes AK mags. Drums won't fit. Does anyone know where I can get a aftermarket stock so it will accept drums?

[This message has been edited by waterdoctor (edited 12-03-1999).]

[56s]

Some company was selling an SKS drum a while back but I forget who.
Anyone remember?
OUT

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56s

[JA]

The SKS drums fit standard SKS's. USA the mag mfg used AK 75 rd drums with SKS type mag welded to it. You will have to shave the stock in the mag well area to get the drum mags to lock in.

[waterdoctor]

Hey thanks for the info. It would be nice if someone made a composite stock kit for it like the AK. I guess mine is a half and half.
I paid $22.5.00 about six years ago do you know what they are going for now?

[colonel kalashnikov]

Sounds like to me that you have a Norinco SKS-D Sporter model. Do you know or not?, if so, does it say Norinco Sporter somewhere on the receiver? The Norinco SKS-D Sporter is the only SKS (out of the box) that I know of that accepts AK mags. I have never seen a Sporter that would accept the drum. I kknow for sure the original wood thumbhole stocks won't, and I have a black poly, foldable (mine is locked extended in the politically correct fashion....as you cannot have a folder on the Sporter) stock on my Sporter that won't accept the drum either. The problem is that the SKS Sporter stocks have a very deep well that leads to the feed assy. The drum's feed mechanism at the top is too short enough to fit in the deep well of the Sporter. It almost fits, and I have always thought that if one was motivated enough, they could somehowe modify a Sporter stock (or make a stock on their own) to make the well a little shallower, then the drum should fit quite nicely into the Sporter's feed assy. Good Shootin'

[ferric oxide]

T&L Guns on Wells Ave. in Reno used to do the modification of the stock's mag well area for the SKS's made to take AK ( stick ) mags, so it would take the AK drums. They were emphatic that it was a very different lower section on the SKS's made to take AK mags than the fixed mag SKS lowers and they wouldn't touch those. Far as I know they will still do the work.

Since I got the SKS sporters that take AK mags BECAUSE the AK handles like a 4x6 and the SKS is far less clunky with the same 30 round mags, having mine converted to take a heavy clunky drum didn't appeal to me.

[Survivor]

You might check with Classic Arms, they used to carry stocks for the SKS Sporter that accepted the drum mags http://www.classicarms.org/

[Hoss]

SKSman has a 75rnd drum advertised for $200.00. Not worth the money IMHO. The drum is made for the standard SKS, with the fixed mag removed.

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[Jay_S]

Damn, I bought one of those SKS drums via Ebay before they canned the gun and hi-cap magazine auctions, and I paid "only" around $90 or so for it. Did I score or what?

[KurtsKustom]

I do the conversion of the SKS to Type 56 (AK mag fed) conversion, and it's not for the timid. It always seemed to me to be the best of both worlds. My personal carbine is a 16"er with a 3 prong AR FS, in the old Chinese thumbhole stock (like the old Saturn stock) which I find works best for me.
Kurt V. Wala
Kurt's Kustom Firearms www.kurtkustom.qpg.com/ (http://www.kurtkustom.qpg.com/)

[Jayreb1]

how much does it cost to convert them and where can i get it done?