- The best furniture for your SKS
Furniture can be a product of design and is considered a form of decorative art. In addition to furniture's functional role, it can serve a symbolic or religious purpose. Domestic furniture works to create, in conjunction with furnishings such as clocks and lighting, comfortable and convenient interior spaces. Furniture can be made from many materials, including metal, plastic, and wood. Furniture can be made using a variety of woodworking joints which often reflect the local culture. Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping in beds, to hold objects at a convenient height for work using horizontal surfaces above the ground, or to store things. Storage furniture such as a nightstand often makes use of doors, drawers, shelves and locks to contain, organize or secure smaller objects such as clothes, tools, books, and household goods.
The SKS has a conventional carbine layout, with a wooden stock and no pistol grip. Most versions are fitted with an integral folding bayonet which hinges down from the end of the barrel, and some versions, such as the Yugoslavian-made M59/66 variant, are equipped with a grenade launching attachment.
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| SKS | |
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 SKS Carbine |
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| Type | Semi-automatic carbine |
| Place of origin |  Soviet Union |
| Service history | |
| In service | See Users |
| Production history | |
| Designer | Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov |
| Designed | 1944 |
| Number built | ~15,000,000[1] |
| Variants | Chinese Type 56; Yugoslavian PAP; Romanian SKS; Albanian SKS; East German SKS; (North) Vietnamese SKS; North Korean SKS |
| Specifications | |
| Weight | 3.85 kg (8 lb 8 oz) |
| Length | 1,021 millimetres (40.2 in), M59/66 length 1,117 millimetres (44.0 in) |
| Barrel length | 521 millimetres (20.5 in), M59/66 558.8 millimetres (22.00 in) |
| Cartridge | 7.62x39mm |
| Action | Short stroke gas piston, tilting bolt, self-loading |
| Rate of fire | Semi-automatic |
| Muzzle velocity | 735 m/s (2,410 ft/s) |
| Effective range | 400 metres (440 yd) |
| Feed system | 10-round internal box magazine, 10-round stripper clip-fed or individual round loading |
| Sights | Hooded post front sight, tangent notch rear sight to 1,000 meters |
The SKS has a conventional carbine layout, with a wooden stock and no pistol grip. Most versions are fitted with an integral folding bayonet which hinges down from the end of the barrel, and some versions, such as the Yugoslavian-made M59/66 variant, are equipped with a grenade launching attachment. As with the American M1 carbine, the SKS is shorter and less powerful than the semi-automatic rifles which preceded it—most notably, the Soviet SVT series and the American M1 Garand. Contrary to popular belief, the SKS is a carbine and not a modern assault rifle, because it does not meet all the criteria for such a weapon. The basic design lacks both selective fire capability, and a detachable magazine. Some selective-fire variants were produced in the PRC, and many SKS's have been modified in various ways to accept detachable magazines; however, the basic design of the SKS is semi-automatic and fixed-magazine in nature. The carbine's ten-round box magazine is fed from a stripper cli, and rounds stored in the magazine can be removed by depressing a magazine catch located forward of the trigger guard.
SKS Stocks and Furniture by Tapco. Carrying stock sets, grips, and buttpads for the SKS Rifle.
