Post by judomayhem on Sept 3, 2016 1:50:05 GMT -5
Knowing that the board attracts smarter, more serious APC's than other ones, I realize that most members have quality AR's and/or AK's. But most of us also have younger, perhaps more impoverished friends who can't realistically drop $1,000+ on a case of ammo and a quality rifle to shoot it. The following is for them:
I've lately become a fan of the SKS for a number of reasons. Among other things, unreliable ones were never made (unlike junk AR's and AK's that are being sold to young blue collar guys who can't afford quality varients). If you live in a rural or semi rural area, I would strongly encourage you to pick one up as your first fighting rifle. Later, when you can afford a higher priced weapon...just mothball the SKS and use it as a spare. If you are smart and chose a QUALITY AK-47 as your primary civilian fighting rifle, the ammo you have stockpiled for the SKS will pull double duty for you.
Here are excerpts from an article describing why the SKS was the primary arm of the Chinese Army. Tell me if these reasonings don't also apply to preppers: "The SKS had a long life in the service of other Soviet-aligned countries, in particular the Chinese army, who found it well suited to their own style of warfare, the "People's War" whose main actors were highly mobile, self-reliant guerrilla bands and rural militias protecting their own villages. In the philosophy of "the People's War", the emphasis was on sniping, spoiling attacks, and ambushes. For this the Chinese army preferred its own domestic version of the SKS (the Type 56 carbine) to the AK pattern. The standard practice was for squad leaders and assistant squad leaders to carry an assault rifle (AK) and for most other soldiers to carry a carbine, so that a front-line infantry squad fielded two assault rifles, two light machine guns, and seven carbines."
I've lately become a fan of the SKS for a number of reasons. Among other things, unreliable ones were never made (unlike junk AR's and AK's that are being sold to young blue collar guys who can't afford quality varients). If you live in a rural or semi rural area, I would strongly encourage you to pick one up as your first fighting rifle. Later, when you can afford a higher priced weapon...just mothball the SKS and use it as a spare. If you are smart and chose a QUALITY AK-47 as your primary civilian fighting rifle, the ammo you have stockpiled for the SKS will pull double duty for you.
Here are excerpts from an article describing why the SKS was the primary arm of the Chinese Army. Tell me if these reasonings don't also apply to preppers: "The SKS had a long life in the service of other Soviet-aligned countries, in particular the Chinese army, who found it well suited to their own style of warfare, the "People's War" whose main actors were highly mobile, self-reliant guerrilla bands and rural militias protecting their own villages. In the philosophy of "the People's War", the emphasis was on sniping, spoiling attacks, and ambushes. For this the Chinese army preferred its own domestic version of the SKS (the Type 56 carbine) to the AK pattern. The standard practice was for squad leaders and assistant squad leaders to carry an assault rifle (AK) and for most other soldiers to carry a carbine, so that a front-line infantry squad fielded two assault rifles, two light machine guns, and seven carbines."
