If you are looking for a course in English (and he may do French ones also or know who does) contact Spiros, the owner of Vieux Duluth restaurant in Lasalle. He is excellent and a very serious guy.

Psst. Here's a secret way to get your PAL much faster.

As soon as you sign up for the course (or even well before), apply for your PAL immediately. There is a mandatory minimum 30-45 day delay from the time that they receive your application until they can issue it. They will reply at some point asking for proof of successfully having completed the course (in Quebec it's the hunting permit that you receive from the provincial government after completing the course).
By the time that your course is completed and the hunting permit has arrived at your address, 45 days will have gone by. As soon as you email, snail mail or fax a scan of both sides of your hunting permit (the proof of having passed the course), they will immediately issue and send you your PAL, no waiting!

Hi Ghost Prepper, Where can I find the contact information for Spiros. Hi gives hunting courses or general weapons?

ok...i just got to post my pic of my SKS 1950 Tula

Hey Grouchyprepper. How well does the scope maintain "zero" being mounted on the receiver cover? Is it consistant or does it tend to wander somewhat? I have heard different reviews on this mounting system.

Wonders now.
I will have to build up the metal on the cover and grind it down again to get it tight.
Next SKS i get, going to drill and tap scope into receiver.i like this rifle the way it is so no drilling on this one.

LOL... so... what is the verdict on maintaining zero? I am asking because I want to put a small scope on mine and there is a mount you can get that replaces the rear sight so it has a solid mount that won't change.

If you are looking for a course in English (and he may do French ones also or know who does) contact Spiros, the owner of Vieux Duluth restaurant in Lasalle. He is excellent and a very serious guy.

Psst. Here's a secret way to get your PAL much faster.

As soon as you sign up for the course (or even well before), apply for your PAL immediately. There is a mandatory minimum 30-45 day delay from the time that they receive your application until they can issue it. They will reply at some point asking for proof of successfully having completed the course (in Quebec it's the hunting permit that you receive from the provincial government after completing the course).
By the time that your course is completed and the hunting permit has arrived at your address, 45 days will have gone by. As soon as you email, snail mail or fax a scan of both sides of your hunting permit (the proof of having passed the course), they will immediately issue and send you your PAL, no waiting!

Spiros?really?
I have met him and eaten at his restaurant in Lasalle MANY times...I had no idea!
Thanks!

This thread finally got me to look around for a course. Unfortunately, here in Quebec, there are plenty of french courses to be had. I do speak french reasonably well, but for something as important as this, I would prefer english. Anyway, I found one in August, about a 2 hour drive from me. $71.00 which includes to book and exam. I'll be calling to book my place later today. I also didn't realize that it took 6 months to get the PAL! Oh well, no guns under the christmas tree this year!

Hi Denob. where did you found that course? And how long time took you to obtain the PAL?

I can't remember exactly...lots of searching on the internet finally led me to a course list. Unfortunately, with an expiring building permit and still lots of construction to do, I didn't have the time to take the course.
I'll look around later and try to post a link.

Here is the link...
http://www.fedecp.qc.ca/index.php/sous-menu-formation/horaire

If we're all showing our SKS, here's mine. I don't mind using the stock mag. and feeding it from the top.
Wouldn't mind a scope or Tech sight. My eyes aren't the greatest, nevermind trying to hit a target at 100 yards.

One of the first rifle I ever shot was a Lee Enfield converted to a 22 cal bore, (Air Cadets). The instructor would put a dime on the front sight and would have us dry fire the weapon. If we pulled the trigger, the dime would fall off, but if you did your breathing properly and squeezed the trigger, it would stay where it was. Latter in life after I joined the military, I applied this exercise with the FN-C1 and the SMG and kept the Marksman rating throughout. As such, I use to be called in to calibrate the night-scopes to the weapons. Night scopes and thermal imagery, when can reach out and touch someone from a hundred yard at night. 😈

Thanks ranger, I coach pistol shooting and I never thought of the dime trick. I'm gonna have to give it a try. I don't remember the first rifle I ever shot but I do remember the first rifle I owned. At 12 or 13, I got an old single shot Cooey with a full length forestock. After I carved down the forstock so it wouldn't look so dorky, I started my gopher hunting career. My father and my uncle taught me how to operate a gun but it was the gophers that taught me the principles of markmanship. I didn't know it was called that, to me, I just aimed at what I wanted to shoot and squeezed the trigger. Hundreds of gophers a year went to the big burrow in the sky, until I left at the age of 17 to join the army. Like you ranger, I kept my marksmanship rating throughout my career.