text: what kind of sks is the best for target shooting/minor hunting? i've been told the sks isn't the most accurate rifle, and 3" groups with ironsights benched at 100 yards is pretty standard, is there any deviation between different national production standards?  the reason behind getting this rifle is affordable centerfire target shooting and possible minor hunting.  therefore a bayonet isn't really required.  also, what happens if a restrictive gun law is enacted when the new president is elected?  comments are appreciated. only one i would get is the russian, shear pin is forged instead of stamped (chinease). freind found out the hard way. he took it to firing range fired a box thru it but he didnt know that on the last round the shear pin broke, he was in his bedroom and loaded a full thirty-round clip in it, pulled back the bolt to load the first round in the chamber. justr as soon as the bolt slammed the first round it went off (without him touching trigger) full-auto and emptied the whole banana clip thru his wall into neighbors living room!!!!!  as for accuracy, well lets just say, 100 just isnt a challenge. i was plinking things on the bullet stop behind the targets which were at least 250 yrds away and never has to raise the sights off lowest setting. ask any veitnam vet about the sks....they fear it. one vet told me you could take any given rifle in the woods, fire it, then fire an sks, and he could pick it out. they were simply out-gunned. m-16 was a .223...a mere high powered .22. sks is a (7.62x39) very close to a .30 caliber with more bullet mass and range. very formidable assault rifle. and the sks wasnt designed for fully automatic, it was a semi-auto feild infantry rifle, the full auto that shoots the same cartridge (7.62x39) is the ak-47, which is made by several diffrent countries; afganastan, turkey, china,and russia. its been about 8 years since i had mine but i was buying boxes of 20 at army surplus stores of imported russian non-corrosive hollow points for around 4.50 cents a box. and they are hunting legal.