SHOT Show Stuff

[WLJ]

New build SKS style firearm

In an innovative move for 2024, Canadian engineer Ryan Pearce has developed the SK-X, a modernized take on the classic SKS rifle. Pearce has engineered a new-model SKS-style action rifle that preserves the recognizable features of the original while introducing a myriad of new upgrades.

For enthusiasts willing to bet on this firearm, there is a pre-order option available at $1,750 on the SK-X’s official website, SKXRifles.com

$1,750 for what's basically a taci-cool SKS? Oh heck no, hard pass.

[SHOT 2024] SK-X: Building A Better SKS In 2024
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2024/01/29/shot-2024-sk-x-building-better-sks-2024/

[WLJ]

[SHOT 2024] The A-Team Is Back: Ruger Reintroduces Folding Stock Mini 14
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2024/01/27/shot-2024-the-a-team-is-back-ruger-reintroduces-folding-stock-mini-14/

MSRP $1,849 

[lee n. field]

New build SKS style firearm

$1,750 for what's basically a taci-cool SKS? Oh heck no, hard pass.

[SHOT 2024] SK-X: Building A Better SKS In 2024
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2024/01/29/shot-2024-sk-x-building-better-sks-2024/

Not Ill-i-noise friendly, alas.

Come on SCOTUS, do the right thing.

[WLJ]

Here's Everytown/The smoking Gun
Apparently they have issues with not only the semi-autos (shocker) but those gosh darn deadly assault lever actions

Deadly Innovations from the 2024 SHOT Show
https://smokinggun.org/deadly-innovations-from-the-2024-shot-show/

[Ben]

Here's Everytown/The smoking Gun
Apparently they have issues with not only the semi-autos (shocker) but those gosh darn deadly assault lever actions

Deadly Innovations from the 2024 SHOT Show
https://smokinggun.org/deadly-innovations-from-the-2024-shot-show/

That article is both comical and infuriating.

[HankB]

[SHOT 2024] The A-Team Is Back: Ruger Reintroduces Folding Stock Mini 14
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2024/01/27/shot-2024-the-a-team-is-back-ruger-reintroduces-folding-stock-mini-14/

MSRP $1,849 

I remember back when Ruger used to advertise the standard stock Mini-14 as "The World's Most Expensive Plinker" . . . with an MSRP of $200.

$1849? No. One can get an AR pattern rifle - a good one - for less.

(The A-Team? In the five years or so that show was on TV, did they ever - EVER! - manage to actually hit anyone with those folding stock Mini-14s?)

[WLJ]

(The A-Team? In the five years or so that show was on TV, did they ever - EVER! - manage to actually hit anyone with those folding stock Mini-14s?)

Less true of the Mini-14s of today (5800 series) but not too far off the mark with the older ones

[Pb]

New build SKS style firearm

$1,750 for what's basically a taci-cool SKS? Oh heck no, hard pass.

Maybe it is for the Canadian market.  The designer is from Canada.  I know their gun bans are fairly arbitrary I think SKS rifles are OK, but AKs and AR15s aren't.

[MechAg94]

[SHOT 2024] The A-Team Is Back: Ruger Reintroduces Folding Stock Mini 14
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2024/01/27/shot-2024-the-a-team-is-back-ruger-reintroduces-folding-stock-mini-14/

MSRP $1,849 

You can buy the folding stock now.  The metal and wood stock is $250 or so.  I was close to buying a mini-30 a couple years ago, but decided not to.

[MechAg94]

Maybe it is for the Canadian market.  The designer is from Canada.  I know their gun bans are fairly arbitrary I think SKS rifles are OK, but AKs and AR15s aren't.

That makes sense.  There was a Canadian rifle a couple years ago that had a "similar" lower to the AR, but the pin holes were off just enough you couldn't mount an AR lower to avoid legal limits.

[JN01]

Here's Everytown/The smoking Gun
Apparently they have issues with not only the semi-autos (shocker) but those gosh darn deadly assault lever actions

Deadly Innovations from the 2024 SHOT Show
https://smokinggun.org/deadly-innovations-from-the-2024-shot-show/

Reading that dropped my IQ by 10 points.

[Perd Hapley]

That article is both comical and infuriating.

The obtuseness - it burns. Assuming the author was able to attend SHOT via press credentials, I wonder how long she was able to stay at the show before retiring to Starbucks to weep, meditate, and recover.

[HankB]

Less true of the Mini-14s of today (5800 series) but not too far off the mark with the older ones

They're actually not all that bad - I've done some plinking with an old (circa 1976 "200th year of American Liberty") Mini-14 and even with the factory iron sights, groups were in roughly the 3" range at 100 yards. Not a tack driver by any means, but I've seen worse out of some SKS rifles and M1 carbines.

[MechAg94]

They're actually not all that bad - I've done some plinking with an old (circa 1976 "200th year of American Liberty") Mini-14 and even with the factory iron sights, groups were in roughly the 3" range at 100 yards. Not a tack driver by any means, but I've seen worse out of some SKS rifles and M1 carbines.

Same for me.  My Dad has one and you can do 4 or 5 inch groups easily enough.  Not sure how much better I could do with good ammo.  I would say it meets minimum combat accuracy, but a good AR will beat it most days.  I really don't know if my 5.56 AK rifle is much better.