Ok....would have uploaded more last night, but photobucket was not being overly cooperative.
This is a project that I have been working on for the past year. I have always loved the Tavor SAR rifle, but was not overly fond of the $1800 price tag, plus I prefer the 7.62x39 round, which the Tavor is not offered in. Being an SKS enthusiast, I thought it might be fun to attempt to build a Tavor clone, but using an SKS for the action. I kicked around several ways of doing this, and then I found that several companies make airsoft versions of the Tavor, with the stocks being almost identical to the Tavor, since they are officially licensed by IWI. So I picked up an SKS parts gun from a local guy, and found a take off airsoft Tavor stock on ebay. That was the easy part...
After that, began the year long process of making the SKS fit inside the stock, and make everything function as it should. That included a forward charging handle, and removable AR style magazine (in 7.62). I can't really fully describe how much work went into this project. Every single part of this gun, required modification and custom made parts. I think the only unmodified part of the rifle is the AR 7.62 magazines
. The receiver needed the sides milled down to fit inside the stock. The magazine area needed to be milled out to accept the AR magazine. Instead of letting the magazine take the hit of the bolt for the last round hold open, I was able to modify the factory hold open to pop up on the last round being pushed up by the magazine follower. The bolt was machined with the "drop free" mod, to allow the magazine to be removed and installed with the bolt closed. The ejector and ejection port was modified to let the cases eject at more of a sideways angle out the stock. The trigger assembly was modified to work inside the stock, and has custom linkage to activate the trigger from the remote front trigger. The safety that was already in the airsoft stock, still functions to block the trigger. The inside of the stock halves had to be milled in certain areas to fit the action inside. The original front sight block and front stock ferrule were removed from the barrel. The barrel was cut down to 16" and threaded for an A2 compensator. The front gas block was modified to mount to the stock. The front and rear hand guard ferrules were removed from the gas tube. Rear sight leaf removed from the rear sight block, and sides shaved down. Custom action pins made with stainless button head screws for positive pin retention. Upper rail mount custom made from a block of aluminum. The front cover portion of the stock that has the charge handle on one side and short picatinny on the other side could not be obtained separately for the airsoft stock, so I had to custom make one from scratch out of a block of Delrin. The airsoft stock is actually about an inch longer than the Tavor stock, which is why it goes out an inch past where the top rail ends. The top rail is a stock Tavor SAR rail, with the flip up sights. There's probably more I'm forgetting....it's been a long path here, lol.
And to answer Phos' trigger question....it's 4.5 lbs, and smooth as silk. I couldn't be happier with the the trigger. I expected it to feel like crap.
Here's a lot more pics....
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