...The SKS...grade school in Maoist China...
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ParadiseRoad
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...I bought one 25 years ago for $85...still have it...
Tubbsy
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Last one i saw at a shop he was asking $450, the prices have gone nuts in the last few years.
Ashlander
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I have two chinese and one russian. I replaced the firing pins with spring loaded ones to eliminate chance of slam-fires with soft primers (American ammo). Great guns. I gave one to my adult son and one to my son-in-law in case SHTF.
Might want to rethink that. I’ve read more reports of those aftermarket firing pin “safety kits” causing more slam fires than those with free floating firing pins. The spring can bind and this was not an unheard of problem back in the 1990s when these things were everywhere.
Instead, drift out the firing pin spring and disassembly the bolt. Soak it in mineral’s spirits overnight. The next morn, use a pipe’s cleaner to clean the firing pin channel and dry thoroughly. Also clean the FP and pay close attention to the hole in the breachface where the FP protrudes.
Reassemble, with little or no oil in the FP channel. Clean the bolt and pin every few hundreds rounds and you will NOT have any issues. Free float firing pins are used in so many guns, including AR-15s, with zero issues. The reports of them causing problems on the SKS are due to stupid people buying a cosmoline-filled SKS and going right out and putting ammo through it, where the grease filled bolt can cause the FP to stick, leading to the problem.
Once properly degreased and cleaned, it is an absolute non issue. What is an issue are those shoe-horned aftermarket springs that are known to kink and break. Just my $0.02.
I have 2 Russian, bought way back when they first started showing up at gun shows selling for 70 bucks.
People remark how crudely they are made when compared to other guns. But an interesting thing I read about the SKS is they were designed to not require any complex or precision machining or fitting, so if need be, parts can be fashioned under primitive/battlefield conditions.
Mine have been a great woods gun...
People remark how crudely they are made when compared to other guns. But an interesting thing I read about the SKS is they were designed to not require any complex or precision machining or fitting, so if need be, parts can be fashioned under primitive/battlefield conditions.
Mine have been a great woods gun...
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Flattop5
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Here in Tucson, it must have been circa 1988, there was a store that had 30 SKSs at any one time for sale. Brand new guns, in boxes, Chinese or Russian, 80 to 85 bucks each, depending on exact condition/pedigree. Those were the days. Mosin Nagants? Brand new, 70 bucks, and even cheaper if you bought two at once. Today, I see Nagants going for 350, even 400 bucks for extra-special.
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I came home from work one day during the Clinton Administration. (It feels soooo good not to have to say, "The first Clinton Administration.") My wife asked me, "What is an SKS?" I told her that it was an imported surplus battle rifle. She asked how much they cost. I think the going rate was $70-$100 at that point, and I told her the estimated price. She said, "Bill Clinton wants to ban them. Get me one."
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I brought back a Russian one with knife blade bayonet from RVN. It was mechanically sound, but the metal and stock were't pretty (that happens when they are buried in a cache for a length of time). I thought the trigger on that thing was the worst trigger I've shot on a rifle. I gave it to my oldest daughter a couple of years ago after seeing if a couple of museums were interested. The museums weren't interested in the provenance. They were only interested in as new condition ones. Who knows where it is or who has it now!
Rosco Shooter
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I brought a Chinese SKS with the blade bayonet home from RVN in '69. The wood and metal were in awful shape. Put a civilian stock on it a couple of years ago, and it shoots great.
She is screaming “Poke the capitalist pigs in their fat bellies!”
That gal looks meaner than an ex-wife.
vonn
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Got a Russian and a couple of Yugos ,with a little trigger work and after market AR type rear sight they are really good shooters and trouble free. Fun plinkers !
To bad that we can't seem to get any American students to do ANYTHING with this much gusto!
armenius
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Their kids vs our kids.Do you see a problem?
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LoboGunLeather
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What? You've never seen them playing with their smart phones? Like, total concentration, dude!
Just goes to show you can’t pick your relatives
LVSteve
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Ever tried a French MAS 49/56? There's an accurate rifle in there somewhere trying to get out from under a 15 lb+ trigger. It can be improved by changing where one of the trigger return spring legs sits.
Amongst the SKS crowd the Chinese guns are considered the most accurate out of the box. My SKS is a Russian refurb with a blackened bolt.
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