Trappers

by Catoosa, Sunday, November 02, 2014, 21:30 (3679 days ago) @ Byron

Absolutely right about short, light, handy rifles. I don't have a pistol-caliber lever gun (yet!), but the slightly updated version - a Norinco SKS Para carbine. They imported a few of them some years back and I got one. Replaced the coarse military sights with a Williams Firesight fiber optic front and large aperture rear, and scrapped the crummy wood for a Choate stock and handguard. With the 16+ inch barrel it is exactly as long as the handlebar of my ATV is wide, fits muzzle-down on the console of my pickup, and pretty much goes everywhere on the place with me. It is MUCH handier than the full-sized SKS, which I have always thought was too big and too heavy for the cartridge it shoots. 7.62x39 ammo is still fairly cheap, and the Wolf hollow points I keep in the gun are as accurate as I can hold at 70+.

The Para is no longer imported, but I have seen one of the currently available Yugo rifles modified to pretty much the same configuration, removing the grenade launcher and other milcrap to make a slick little carbine.