diff --git a/src/SharpCompress/Readers/AbstractReader.cs b/src/SharpCompress/Readers/AbstractReader.cs
index 89992045..20ad0609 100644
--- a/src/SharpCompress/Readers/AbstractReader.cs
+++ b/src/SharpCompress/Readers/AbstractReader.cs
@@ -143,7 +143,9 @@ namespace SharpCompress.Readers
 
         private void Skip()
         {
-            if (!Entry.IsSolid && Entry.CompressedSize > 0)
+            if (ArchiveType != ArchiveType.Rar 
+                && !Entry.IsSolid 
+                && Entry.CompressedSize > 0)
             {
                 //not solid and has a known compressed size then we can skip raw bytes.
                 var rawStream = Entry.Parts.First().GetRawStream();
@@ -156,15 +158,14 @@ namespace SharpCompress.Readers
                         rawStream.Read(skipBuffer, 0, skipBuffer.Length);
                     }
                     rawStream.Read(skipBuffer, 0, (int)(bytesToAdvance % skipBuffer.Length));
+                    return;
                 }
             }
-            else //don't know the size so we have to try to decompress to skip
+            //don't know the size so we have to try to decompress to skip
+            using (var s = OpenEntryStream())
             {
-                using (var s = OpenEntryStream())
+                while (s.Read(skipBuffer, 0, skipBuffer.Length) > 0)
                 {
-                    while (s.Read(skipBuffer, 0, skipBuffer.Length) > 0)
-                    {
-                    }
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/tests/SharpCompress.Test/Tar/TarReaderTests.cs b/tests/SharpCompress.Test/Tar/TarReaderTests.cs
index 331c6cea..31052ebe 100644
--- a/tests/SharpCompress.Test/Tar/TarReaderTests.cs
+++ b/tests/SharpCompress.Test/Tar/TarReaderTests.cs
@@ -20,6 +20,33 @@ namespace SharpCompress.Test.Tar
             Read("Tar.tar", CompressionType.None);
         }
 
+        [Fact]
+        public void Tar_Skip()
+        {
+            using (Stream stream = new ForwardOnlyStream(File.OpenRead(Path.Combine(TEST_ARCHIVES_PATH, "Tar.tar"))))
+            using (IReader reader = ReaderFactory.Open(stream))
+            {
+                ResetScratch();
+                int x = 0;
+                while (reader.MoveToNextEntry())
+                {
+                    if (!reader.Entry.IsDirectory)
+                    {
+                        x++;
+                        if (x % 2 == 0)
+                        {
+                            reader.WriteEntryToDirectory(SCRATCH_FILES_PATH,
+                                                         new ExtractionOptions()
+                                                         {
+                                                             ExtractFullPath = true,
+                                                             Overwrite = true
+                                                         });
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
         [Fact]
         public void Tar_BZip2_Reader()
         {