SKS Bolt pin removal

[Aragorn243]

You just aren't pounding on it hard enough.

I think you run into a thing where you feel you are going to break the blasted thing if you hit it any harder and you just have to overcome that feeling and hit it harder.

Get yourself a good hard surface that you can drill a hole into so the pin has somewhere to go and pound away.

I bought a Yugo about a month ago and watched a video online step by step and that was the most frustrating portion but it did finally come out.

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[Bulls-I_24]

Yeah in the video I watched the guy said the pin would tap out hard put he was just using a ball peen and tapping pretty hard, harder than Ive ever seen for a pin. I had a block of wood with a hole drilled, the bolt was sitting flat and sitting on hardwood floor. I had a 16oz claw hammer and was smacking the crap out of it. If I swung any harder id be afraid of hitting my hand.
Im kinda ****ed anyway cause when I bought it the guy said it was unissued and all the #'s matched, which the ones you could see did, but the bolt and a couple other internal parts were replacements.