Re: 1000-Yard SKS
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sirhrmechanic</div><div class="ubbcode-body">A lot of the older rifles (certainly the Tula Arsenal SKS's) have Tangent Sights that are ramped out to 1000.
The tangent sights on my Ross rifles are ramped out to 2,000 yards. Even my old Snider Enfield .577 has an 800 YD tangent sight. And that thing is a pumpkin slinger. Both were designed at a time when raining lead down from volley fire was still considered a sound doctrine.
The SKS was designed just 30 years later than the Ross. And, remember, the Russians (and Chinese) saw quantity as having its own quality. Hundreds of marginal riflemen raining down lead from 1000 yards out was part of their philosophy. It's a good thing they didn't come through the Fulda Gap in the early '80s. It would not have been pretty.
Anyway, I don't doubt it's possible. Easy, no. Reliable, no. Best choice of firearms for 1000, no. But possible and plausible, most certainly!
Cheers,
Sirhr
PS. I've played with the tangent sights on the Ross rifles. They work pretty well! </div></div>
I have owned an SKS. I know they have tangent sights, most old military rifles do have tangent sights, that however does not account for a consecutive 9, 10 and x ring hit with an SKS at 1000yds. Volley fire is not well aimed fire. Volley fire does not care that your bullet is unstable and subsonic, aimed fire however does indeed depend on some bullet stability. I question the very thought of any accuracy past the sonic zone with 123gr Chinese ball ammo. I am not doubting you can put 3 out of 16 shots in a sheet of plywood at 1000yds with an SKS, that is indeed plausible. Suggesting the last 3 rounds were in the center of the target? Now that is mythical.