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MedicMan218 wrote:I've given the SKS some thought too.

Glass bedding?

Glass bedding is a process in which you fill the voids in the stock with fiberglass resin, it makes the action "fit like a glove" in the stock and usually greatly improves accuracy, especially with guns that have a poorly fitted stock, which is most sks's. On the particular sks I did, I used acraglass gel, as it was easier to handle. I ended up glass bedding the stock from the front to the portion just in front of the chamber ( you lose the ability to put your cleaning rod back in the stock but it's worth it). Then I used a wooden c-clamp to hold the trigger group in, just short of snapping in, while it cured. It is extremely hard to get the trigger group to snap in now, but it can be done with a little elbow grease, but the gun shoots twice as good as before.

I've owned three AK's in my my life. The best could hold 3-4" groups at 100 yds. for the first 10 rounds out of a cold barrel, then opened up to about 6-8", I still have this one, it's a Polytech ( Chinese). I had a MAK-90 that could do about 6" groups, and a MAADI ( Egyptian) that ( no joke) could barely hold 12" at 100 yds. and got worse as it heated up. I think the newer American made ones may have much better accuracy, but I have had no experience with them. Bottom line is they usually hold pretty good groups until they heat up, then go to pot, at least in the experience I have had with 3 different guns. I would say it should still be a great hog gun inside 100 yds. though. I have had much better luck with SKS's and accuracy, especially if you glass bed them. I took a chicom SKS from 6" groups to 2-3" groups with sustained fire just by glass bedding it once. My two cents.