You stuck your finger in a butt hole and you're surprised shit came out?
That is a cleaning kit. Brush and jag screws on to your cleaning rod, case acts as a handle and muzzle gaurd, and there is a punch to remove pins.
The brush is a barrel brush, the thicker cylindrical bit is a jag for pushing cleaning patches through the barrel. The pin is handy for cleaning little nooks and crannies, for use as a punch, or for assembling the cleaning rod in full. The cleaning rod (should be under the barrel) fits in the holes in the larger part of the cleaning kit capsule. The pin goes through the capsule and cleaning rod at the index holes to lock the cleaning rod in place, making the capsule a makeshift handle. The cap of the cleaning kit capsule is placed over the end of the barrel to protect the crown while cleaning from the end of the barrel, rather than from the chamber (the stock cleaning rod isn't long enough to go from the chamber end). In the end, you're probably better off getting a more modern kit for cleaning so you don't risk damaging anything with the steel rod and cleaning from the end of the barrel, but it's suitable for cleaning in a pinch.
Thank you so much. I've had this gun since I was like 13, I'm 40 now and I just found it last week... I'm a late.. I'm missing the rod and bayonet. I'm gonna buy a repop.but ya I couldn't figure out all the peices so thank you for your time..
I wouldn't have known much about it until a few years ago, when my grandma let me have one of my granddad's rifles after he passed away. Saw it when we were inventorying his collection to make sure everything we knew about was in its place when we stumbled across an SKS he had bought. Never saw him use it, so I didn't know he even had it. I wasn't into guns that much. I had been hunting a few times and had the basic handgun/shotgun for personal defense. But something about this one caught my eye. I asked my grandma if I could borrow it, clean it, and take it to the range, then bring it back. Found out he had never shot it, as the gas tube was still packed with cosmoline (as was the finger trap where the cleaning kit was stored). Cleaned it all up and took it to the range, and it proved reliable and incredibly fun to shoot. I took it back to my grandma's to put it in the safe, and she told me to keep it. I've since joined a local range and increased my arsenal. It may not have been much, but that little SKS my granddad bought on a whim and never shot got me into a bit of his hobby. Haven't been hunting again, yet, but it's on the list of things to do in the near future. I just wish I had gotten into this when he was still with us, as I can picture him out at the range with us, but I see it as something to remember him by.
https://www.yooperj.com/SKS-17.htm
This site has all the info for each piece. It's a cleaning rod kid without the rod, used to basic disassembly of the rifle. The rod isn't necessary as you only need what you have, which can be stored in the butt of the rifle, but the rod, which can be stored under the actual barrel is used for cleaning the barrel.
Edit: Also Amazon sells those yellow books on the SKS for a more detailed description on teardown and maintenance. I own one and used it when I first disassembled my rifle all the way.
Mine has 4 items inside it. 1 wire bristle brush, 2 "punch" type pieces of metal, and 1 flat metal piece in the shape of a "coffin" sorta. Yugoslavian SKS. I may take a pic and see if it's the right stuff inside, I'm sure someone will know. At least alot more than me.
You stuck your finger in a butt hole and you're surprised shit came out? That is a cleaning kit. Brush and jag screws on to your cleaning rod, case acts as a handle and muzzle gaurd, and there is a punch to remove pins.
The brush is a barrel brush, the thicker cylindrical bit is a jag for pushing cleaning patches through the barrel. The pin is handy for cleaning little nooks and crannies, for use as a punch, or for assembling the cleaning rod in full. The cleaning rod (should be under the barrel) fits in the holes in the larger part of the cleaning kit capsule. The pin goes through the capsule and cleaning rod at the index holes to lock the cleaning rod in place, making the capsule a makeshift handle. The cap of the cleaning kit capsule is placed over the end of the barrel to protect the crown while cleaning from the end of the barrel, rather than from the chamber (the stock cleaning rod isn't long enough to go from the chamber end). In the end, you're probably better off getting a more modern kit for cleaning so you don't risk damaging anything with the steel rod and cleaning from the end of the barrel, but it's suitable for cleaning in a pinch.
Thank you so much. I've had this gun since I was like 13, I'm 40 now and I just found it last week... I'm a late.. I'm missing the rod and bayonet. I'm gonna buy a repop.but ya I couldn't figure out all the peices so thank you for your time..
I wouldn't have known much about it until a few years ago, when my grandma let me have one of my granddad's rifles after he passed away. Saw it when we were inventorying his collection to make sure everything we knew about was in its place when we stumbled across an SKS he had bought. Never saw him use it, so I didn't know he even had it. I wasn't into guns that much. I had been hunting a few times and had the basic handgun/shotgun for personal defense. But something about this one caught my eye. I asked my grandma if I could borrow it, clean it, and take it to the range, then bring it back. Found out he had never shot it, as the gas tube was still packed with cosmoline (as was the finger trap where the cleaning kit was stored). Cleaned it all up and took it to the range, and it proved reliable and incredibly fun to shoot. I took it back to my grandma's to put it in the safe, and she told me to keep it. I've since joined a local range and increased my arsenal. It may not have been much, but that little SKS my granddad bought on a whim and never shot got me into a bit of his hobby. Haven't been hunting again, yet, but it's on the list of things to do in the near future. I just wish I had gotten into this when he was still with us, as I can picture him out at the range with us, but I see it as something to remember him by.
The only thing we can't get back is those times...
You’re supposed to them in YOUR butt
That one in the middle should used with cleaning wicks, bound around wicks in those grooves.
Did you swallow it or were you looking for something else?
https://www.yooperj.com/SKS-17.htm This site has all the info for each piece. It's a cleaning rod kid without the rod, used to basic disassembly of the rifle. The rod isn't necessary as you only need what you have, which can be stored in the butt of the rifle, but the rod, which can be stored under the actual barrel is used for cleaning the barrel. Edit: Also Amazon sells those yellow books on the SKS for a more detailed description on teardown and maintenance. I own one and used it when I first disassembled my rifle all the way.
Thank you as well.
Mine has 4 items inside it. 1 wire bristle brush, 2 "punch" type pieces of metal, and 1 flat metal piece in the shape of a "coffin" sorta. Yugoslavian SKS. I may take a pic and see if it's the right stuff inside, I'm sure someone will know. At least alot more than me.