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I have a 1950 Russian SKS in great shape, pristine bore, bayonet sling...got it back in early '90's for about $100. We were all buying them then, for fun. One day we all went to the range for an SKS shoot, buddy from out of town shows up with his new (to him) Chinese SKS. We set up some targets and started banging away. He was standing between my brother and me, raises the rifle for a first shot and it buzzed through about 10 rounds with the first trigger pull. He just stood there staring at it.

Eleven or twelve years ago, I took a Russian guy fishing a few times, he was a Russian army officer (long story). Anyway, after fishing we went back to my house and he follows me into my shop and starts studying the shelves of ammo. His daughter, who was interpreting for us, came in and, through her I saked if he liked guns. When I opened up the safe, he went weak in the knees....never saw so many privately owned guns in his life. Amazed that we were allowed to own AR's. When I reached back into the safe and pulled out the Russian SKS, his eyes lit right up. He took it and went right through this whole manual of arms that finished with snapping it down and back so the bayonet popped out and was deployed. Cool.

Damn, how many SKS's did I sweat the cosmoline out of in a black garbage bag on the roof in 100+ degree heat. Thems were the days.

When I turned 18 a shop in Chico, CA had them for $69 a pop. Killed my first pig with one.

I probably bought and flipped a baker's dozen or more of SKS's in a couple of years. Don't regret flipping them all. Needed the money then for beer, tuition, dates, whatever.

I DO wish I had held onto the 2 cheap and accurate as hell swedes I had at the time though.

The BP gas station just north of Milledgeville sold them for $75 or $80 back then.

$100 bill would get ya a tank of gas,a Slim Jim, and a genuine Chinese SKS.

I sporterized my Russian SKS with a composite stock and neon front sight and took it deer hunting for a few years. Decent shooter and I had a buttload of ammo that came with the gun. Think I paid 200.

I have no idea if the numbers match but I kept the original wood and bayonet. Might have to drag it out of the safe and put it back original.

If the description starts with Russian, it's going to be expensive nowadays.

Just the way things have gotten.

Those were the Chinese ones. And Colt 1991 A1’s we’re NOT $179. They were $279. I was there too.

Oops, typo. My bad. Fixed on original post. Thanks.

I got one of those

...somewhere in the house. Seen it about 6 mos ago behind some dog food bags.

I thought that the Chinese SKS were going to supplant lever action 30-30s as the preferred inexpensive truck gun when you could buy them by the case for about $75 each. My FIL bought a couple of cases of the NORINCO SKSs to give to his good customers. I took most of them apart and detail cleaned them, a dirty PITA job.

How’d they shoot after you cleaned em’ up good...?

Yep. I wish I would have bought more Swedes!!! 😢

The days of the Sovbloc collaspe and " new country" inexpensive wpn,s were over by the early 2000,s
Not to mention storage and warehouse source,s of former mil wpns being exhausted.
Clinton AWB at 1st and then Black Jesus in 08 pretty much fugged schit up.
Then the Ukraine schit in 14.
And now C19 schitt.....


Fugging 1k of wolf polyformance 123 gr Hp
259 plus shipping and tax at SGammo yesterday.
Got the notify me email.
Dragging my feet on it right now, knowing as the election approaches it will only increase.
Fugging .30 a round after it all...

18 to 20 cents a rd prior to 2nd week of march and this C19 hyped bullschitt....

Now that you know it's no longer considered a junker, you should dust it off and put it up for sale

if you think that's overpriced,just be thankful that you don't want an M-1 carbine.....WOW

Now this is downright funny.

My sons stayed in touch with the next door neighbor's son. They're all within a couple of years of each other. The neighbor boy is 23 now. When we were living there, we were always getting flak from Mom and Dad over guns. Mom and Dad (Jewish) just plain didn't like the idea of Germans owning firearms.

Fast Forward to a few weeks ago. #2 and #3 son were out and ran into their son. He's been getting into firearms. His biggest buy so far? A $750 rat bag SKS. My sons, who are fairly far down the bunny hole smiled politely and secretly laughed about the rube paying $750 for what I once bought for $80 and probably had a $350 street price nowadays.

I'll have to let them know the jokes on them.

Only time I ever listened to Bill Clinton. He said I did not need an assault rifle. I translated it from Liberal English to Patriotic English to mean I needed an assault rifle.

I really had no desire for one at the time but if Slick Willie said I didn't need one I knew I needed it. So I got one. A couple of years ago I went out a brought so extra ammo. Glad I did. It has been fun to shoot. But I haven't shot it for awhile.

Yep. Weren't they about $139 for a re-import "Blue Sky" marked or whatever during the $69 SKS time-frame? Norinco, "Model of the 1911A1" for $169. That last was over quick like.

How do you search for that listing?

Fl armslist.
Dont enter town
Click rifles
In search box enter SKS or what you are looking for.
Then state listings for that item will appear.


If ya want nationwide listing for an item
Just enter item directly into search box.

Dude had a pic of a big ole walk in safe.

before blue sky was arlington arms. they had a small import mark under the barrel, unlike blue sky stamping them so hard on the barrel as to damage it in some cases. I sorted through a pile of them for about 140 a piece.
the norinco 1911 i paid about that price, and did modify a little. put a different trigger in it, and adjustible sights.
i have taken people out to shoot at a ten yard target, not much difference between that norinco and a 2000dollar tweaked gold cup.
norinco has never let me down.
i had people t elling me i was nuts when i was buying just about every carbine i ran across, i wanted all ten manufacturers.
now they want to buy them for what i paid for them, yeah, right.