Home Forums Hunting & Shooting AR and Tactical Rifles Any of you guys like the SKS?

I've had several. Accurate enough to shoot groundhogs with out to 100-150 reliably. Much better than an AK, but not quite as reliable especially the short "paratroopers".

in the 70's early 80's i would buy them in case lots, dunk them ai a barrel of gas, dry them off and go to the range.
if i could hit a 8 inch gong at 400 meters i sold them for 129.95 to 149.95 each. if they didn't have that kind of accuracy they went at 79-99 each. wish i had a case or two now as i payed 17.50 per arm in a 20 unit case.

the stuck firing pin can be fun sometimes.
i was acting as range master onetime when a car load of kids in baggy shorts and wife beater's pulled up.
there were about 7 of them and they all crowed the bench. i thinned the crowd back behind the fire line and "splained' the rules . they didn't know i understood gutter Mexican, but i let their insults roll.
their fearless leader got to the bench, but went all Rambo from the hip. the pin stuck on the 2nd round of a 20 round mag and the shooter turned into his group of admirers.
i think he got 3 of them before i and another range officer got the muzzle up.
no kia's but the wia's were transported via ambulance.
if i remember most were leg wounds.

i have one currently just for the fun factor. if it was the only gun i could own i wouldn't feel helpless.

This one is pretty clean. I may shoot it today. I need to burn up a few thousand rounds I got with it... ha ha..

^^^^That's a nice one!^^^^

I had a Norinco years ago and traded it off. I wouldn't mind having one again.

Is that a Yugo?

It appears to be a Norinco.

All SKS's were good. They really knocked down the Mini 14 as the cheap "assault rifle". You could get them with many accessories such as grenade and rocket launchers, etc. An SKS is probably superior in every way to an AK, except firepower and that could be remedied, back in the day, by a cheap kit that allowed AK mags to be utilized.

I had one. It was excellent, so of course, I got rid of it. Just like the Norinco Model of the 1911A1, it was great when it was cheap. At today's prices, after Bush I's ban...not so much. Just a damned good, cheap gun. The ban is what killed them and now, everybody knows they are good guns and AR's are muy cheap.

Yep it's a Yugo. My dad bought it in the 90's for cheap. I shot it today and that thing is a blast. I love shooting it. After getting the front sight right where I wanted it, I shot this 10 shot group. Damn thing is impressive!!!!


I was having a blast shooting this old girl. No wonder my dad loved these so much. He bought 2 at the same time and kept this one unfired and pristine. He shot the dog chit out of the other one though and it never even skipped a beat. Funny thing today I had the gas port turned off (not knowing the rifle) for the grenade launcher and the rifle wasn't ejecting the brass. I had to google it to see what was up, but it was an easy fix. Just push in a button and turn it to the other side and it redirects the gas, so your ammo ejects. After that, the rifle didn't skip a beat. The trigger wasn't even half bad either. This rifle is a good one.....

It says "Yugoslavia" right on the side of it...

Yugoslavian SKS

That's a nice Yugo.

My Norinco had a 'cheaper' look to it. No brake, No blade bayonet (mine didn't have a bayonet at all, but most had a cheap spike bayonet), thin metal buttplate, stock was darker, reddish in color.

I like the SKS and the Russian and Yugo are the best in my opinion.

Looks like you have a winner bsa.

Sometimes it's nice to not worry about keeping your brass, reloading, etc.

Just blast.....

Amen!!!!

Had one. Hated it.
Sold it for 800....Guy was willing to pay.
Love my AR in 762x39

Hate 'em; just had a big shooting day for a couple of customers & had one in the battery. Made me remember what POS they are.

Besides being heavvvvvvvvvvy; ya'll can keep all of 'em.

MM

I love how some of you guys put down ALL AKs. Laughing.

Apparently, you've never shot a good one.

An AK ain't exactly the same as an SKS....................

There's a reason that the AK 47 has virtually completely replaced the SKS; just sayin.

MM

When did Sks become the same as AK?

Bought four of them back in 2002, (Yugos) paid $92.00 each, 500 rounds of Wolf and for $65.00, still have one left, shoot it a couple times a year.

Fired one once, very different from the SAR 1 I was shooting that day. It held steadier, recoiled gentler and hit the 12"X12" steel diamond at 300 yards closer than the AK. And you don't lug around heavy duty steel magazines, just bullets. A lot to recommend it. And, for a time, there was that charming symmetry of a 99 buck SKS rifle and a 99 buck thousand round case of 7.62X39 to go with it. The militia special.

Been shot at a fair number of times with the SKS. Never hit me, so I conclude it's a good gun for my enemies to embrace.

Several years ago I was in a gun shop and a man brought in an SKS to have the stock switched to magpul or something like that. The rifle had serial numbers but no manufacturer or importer anywhere on the gun, most of the bluing was gone also. He believed his father brought it back from Vietnam.