How close is your face and eyes to everything. Is it louder on our ears too since everything is more close to our heads?
When the very first chinese sks's were offered here and some accessories were offered too. I got the ventilated upper hand guard(steel with holes for cooling) it looked really cool. And i also got the plastic skeleton stock and assembled the sks. After looking at it, i disliked it because of the loss of the real wood look. I hated the tricked out sks. I ended up changing it all back but the ventilated handguard. The orginal wood stock looks so much nicer.
Now i'm thinking about it again with all this bull pup/changing the sks into a tactical sks, talk on most of the sks sections on the forums. I may keep an eye out for a beater yugo to play with. After all these many years i still have that plastic stock too. I been wanting to test out the night vision scope with a red lazer dot setup to see if it intergrates between the two and i can see the red dot in the night vision scope. But i'm not counting out the bull pup setup too. I just want to see at night whats stalking me in the north woods.