I strongly dislike when people say "buy once, cry once", but in the this case I think I'd spring for the extra goodness. I think long term the CZ is a better investment in quality and 2nd cool.
Ran across this on Gunbroker. Is this thing really this valuable?? Lew Horton did some nice stuff for Smith and others back in the day but really?? Enlighten me?
http://www.gunbroker.com/item/664409949
I get what you are saying. My experience was that it rendered the sks functionally unusable. Even with a loaded 30 it was no fun to hold or shoot.
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I want to try to understand this. You are saying that a rifle that already has too much weight on the front end gets balanced better by taking more weight off the back end?
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I did the SG Works kit on a beat up sks once. I even cut it down to 16.25" and threaded the barrel 14x1 LH.
It was a fun project but in the end it was kind of a weird setup. It was REALLY front heavy and I wasn't wild about all the screws you had to take out and put back every time you needed to...
I don't have any that are too nice to shoot, but I do have dozens Ive never shot; don't have the time to travel or local available space and local ranges are either: picky about ammo, only 25yds, or full of dangerous noobs.
Curse of the suburbs: lots of expendable income and no place to shoot outdoors. Indoor ranges suck, are full of dangerous noobs and their noob neighbors violating all safety rules, and only 25 yards. I have to drive well over an hour to get anywhere decent to stretch out. The result is I may or...