Gungeek,
I concur wholeheartedly about the SKS!
It is a "ok" secondary issue for "local-militia" where it would be not be pressed into extended firefights.
Myself,I'd rather use a #4MKI Enfield or a PPS-43 over a SKS!
I do agree(firsthand experience)though about the PS-type ammuniton and it's wound charactoristic's!
It is a great penetrator but a poor "on target" performer,primarally on chest wounds!
It went through(measuring from the point it entered on my chest to where it exited out my back just past my armpit)diagonally left-to-right at about 16".
A 55grain M193 5.56mm would have tumbled and no me!
A M62tracer or M80 ball 7.62nato hit would have terminated me too.
I was hit with the most lucky wound that anyone who had been shot could hope to receive!
But in a pair of short pants my thigh still gets stares and people still ask why I limp!
That was one round entering the back of my thigh exiting the front displacing most of my quad.
The round was a 7.62nato,the rifle was a FAL.
The rat-baztird got his position interduced with a 152mm round from the 3/73rd Airborne-Armor Sheridan!
In a built-up area (ie:urban)the 5.56mm when used with a twist rate of 1/12" is preferred over 1/7".
Mike
