My 4th and FINAL SKS, Russian This Time

TargetGrade · Jul 3, 2018

Like the title says, my LAST one. So many guns out there so few dollars here. Note the OLD yellowed sticker price. I missed the boat on that by a couple decades maybe. THIS one happens to have the same birthday as me.

Bore is perfect, somebody sanded the shit out of it. :mad54:

Alea Jacta Est · Jul 3, 2018

Speaking of sanding...

You need to put those toe nails to the grinder.

Nice job...again.

j_h_smith · Jul 3, 2018

Yeah, yeah, yeah... I've heard that one before. It won't happen. I thought I was done with 6 Garands. I doubled that in 2 more years. However, I sold them all to a "collector" and bought a few other toys since then. It's always good to have numerous rifles of one sort or another. That's why they call them collections.

Good luck keeping it at 4!

lkenefic · Jul 3, 2018

Awesome find! I should have kept mine. The Russians were $159, Chinese were a bit less, and Yugos were $89... ahhh the good 'ole days!

lazarus · Jul 3, 2018

Nice find. Is that an integral 15 round mag? Interesting.

I just got my first one about 2 weeks ago. Refinished it (wood was in rough shape, metal work great). Already hankering for another one.

Though if I am going to buy another of anything, it is going to be a 2nd Garand first.

But too few dollars. It’ll likely be a few years before I buy another of anything I already have. I’ve got an AR-10 to finish building as well as needing a .223 bolt gun at a minimum. Maybe a .45acp 1911 also, and/or a .357 magnum

I am sure something unique and C&R will slip in there first also.

TargetGrade · Jul 3, 2018

Nnztg8r said:
Speaking of sanding...

You need to put those toe nails to the grinder.

Nice job...again.

I'm HOPING once I get the hip balljoint with zerk fittings I can chew them down again like when I was a kid.

TargetGrade · Jul 3, 2018

j_h_smith said:
Yeah, yeah, yeah... I've heard that one before. It won't happen. I thought I was done with 6 Garands. I doubled that in 2 more years. However, I sold them all to a "collector" and bought a few other toys since then. It's always good to have numerous rifles of one sort or another. That's why they call them collections.

Good luck keeping it at 4!

Next on the list is a 1917 Enfield to replace he one I sold years ago.

TargetGrade · Jul 3, 2018

lazarus said:
Nice find. Is that an integral 15 round mag? Interesting.

I just got my first one about 2 weeks ago. Refinished it (wood was in rough shape, metal work great). Already hankering for another one.

Though if I am going to buy another of anything, it is going to be a 2nd Garand first.

But too few dollars. It’ll likely be a few years before I buy another of anything I already have. I’ve got an AR-10 to finish building as well as needing a .223 bolt gun at a minimum. Maybe a .45acp 1911 also, and/or a .357 magnum

I am sure something unique and C&R will slip in there first also.

The mag is a BS Chinese knockoff BUT the original one did come with it. :thumbsup:

TargetGrade · Jul 3, 2018

lkenefic said:
Awesome find! I should have kept mine. The Russians were $159, Chinese were a bit less, and Yugos were $89... ahhh the good 'ole days!

Remember Colonial Arms in Glen Burnie? 1973 ish or so they had maybe 100 of K31's lined up for 25 bucks a pop. I was too ignorant to know what they were.

TargetGrade · Jul 5, 2018

Help me out with this commie somebitch............

Looks like 2 sets of serial numbers???? :confused:

Left side of receiver says 3M85* as well as all the small parts, cover, trigger assy, stock, bolt ect.

The RIGHT side says CCCP2708*

GuitarmanNick · Jul 6, 2018

If memory serves me, the square with the slash through it indicates that it was refurbished. Parts may have been re-serialized in the process.

Alphabrew · Jul 6, 2018

EDIT

Ignore my PM, didn’t realize you weren’t in Maryland. That 20 round Chinese star mag is worth $100 by itself. Nice rifle!

lkenefic · Jul 10, 2018

TargetGrade said:
Remember Colonial Arms in Glen Burnie? 1973 ish or so they had maybe 100 of K31's lined up for 25 bucks a pop. I was too ignorant to know what they were.

Haha... that pre-dates me by about 12 years or so, and I was out in AZ. Jensen's in Tucson had Swedish Mausers for $79... all matching but I think they had the dredded import stamp. I bought two, but didn't have the good sense to hang on to either of them... live and learn.

TargetGrade · Jul 10, 2018

lkenefic said:
Haha... that pre-dates me by about 12 years or so, and I was out in AZ. Jensen's in Tucson had Swedish Mausers for $79... all matching but I think they had the dredded import stamp. I bought two, but didn't have the good sense to hang on to either of them... live and learn.

Hunters Haven, Interarms, Sunny's Surplus, even Monkey Wards and Sears... there was a collectors dream heaven but the bug wasn't that strong.... yet. :sad20:

I bought a used very nice Remington 582 .22 for 22 dollars at Stammers on Ft Smallwood Rd I think it was. Cool guns were everywhere, this is before leftist realized they could kill each other wholesale.

IronEye · Jul 10, 2018

Alphabrew said:
EDIT

Ignore my PM, didn’t realize you weren’t in Maryland. That 20 round Chinese star mag is worth $100 by itself. Nice rifle!

I was going to say the same. I remember seeing those 20 round Chinese star magazines going for surprising prices. I've got one around here some place.

TargetGrade · Jul 10, 2018

IronEye said:
I was going to say the same. I remember seeing those 20 round Chinese star magazines going for surprising prices. I've got one around here some place.

Question is, do I even want the 20 rounder, pretty clunky IMO.

lazarus · Jul 11, 2018

TargetGrade said:
Question is, do I even want the 20 rounder, pretty clunky IMO.

Size, shape and stripper clip size, a 15 round mag with 5 round stripper clips would be ideal IMHO. The 10 rounder almost always seem to hang up and you sit there screwing with it for a few seconds.

TargetGrade · Jul 11, 2018

lazarus said:
Size, shape and stripper clip size, a 15 round mag with 5 round stripper clips would be ideal IMHO. The 10 rounder almost always seem to hang up and you sit there screwing with it for a few seconds.

I've found top loading one at a time eliminated feed problems on my 2 chicom 10 rounders. Even my duckbill 30 rounds squeeze bang x30 works pretty well. For a "cheap" weapon the SKS is still a pretty good deal... IMO.

lazarus · Jul 11, 2018

TargetGrade said:
I've found top loading one at a time eliminated feed problems on my 2 chicom 10 rounders. Even my duckbill 30 rounds squeeze bang x30 works pretty well. For a "cheap" weapon the SKS is still a pretty good deal... IMO.

Heck yeah. So long as you aren’t expecting a precision sniper rifle, they are dirt cheap to feed (or as cheap as a centerfire can get). Minute of man out to 250yds and some SKS could probably manage that out to 300 or 350yds. Pretty rugged. Very easy to maintain. IMHO pretty to look at with a good wood finish.

I wouldn’t pay $600 for one, but $300-450 still seems like a fair price to me for what you get.

dreadpirate · Jul 15, 2018

My last and final firearms purchase is always may last purchase. Why is that?

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