Chinese SKS to stain or not to stain?

[Mauser Fanatic]

You can. I'd go with a darker color stain, perhaps burgundy in color. Or you could buy one of those Chinese fiberglass stocks. Those look really nice.

 

[Pepi]

I would just True-oil the crap out of it

 

[cobber]

I would just True-oil the crap out of it

That's what I did in the end. Now to see if it actually shoots?

 

[Pepi]

That's what I did in the end. Now to see if it actually shoots?

LOL ... I bought one in the box back in 1985 for 75 bucks. Still in the box. Never have I shot it. Dam, I even have around 100 rounds for it

 

[DragonGunner]

Wouldn't use BLO...use to do that but in hot weather it bleeds. Stain of your choice works but the grain doesn't look to bad. I like Tung oil form realmilkpaint.com. I got a M14 off gun broker stained horrible, almost black. Stripped it and found amazing USGI wood grain. Instead of stain I decided t just use Tung oil...wow. Good stuff.

 

[snapping turtle]

Whatever you do your still not going to get the Chinese off it. (Just kidding)

 

[STEEL CORE]

I cleaned up an old one and stained it with a dark stain, looks nice, unless i find out Ho Chi Min carried it, I am happy I did.

 

[cobber]

And done.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Looks good!

 

[cobber]

Looks good!

Thanks! It was a little beat up under the cosmo, so I couldn't just leave as was...

 

[SnoopLoggyDog]

Boy, getting that trigger group back in is a bear!! Never gonna remove it as long as I live!

Back in the day, I used to help a dealer friend at the gun shows. We were always set up near the entrance to the shows. He would sell guns and I would help people reassemble their SKS's, that they had taken apart and could not get put back together. Also installed homebrew gas rings in the grenade cut-off on Yugo SKS's.
Also helped people with their ****tastic Heese/Blackthorn AR's.