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Back in the day you could pick an SKS out of a barrel full of’em and a thousand rounds for $150. I have a case of 5.45x39 that I wound up with a few years ago but nothing to shoot it in so I s’pose now might be a good time to sell it or trade it for something I “need”.
Ahhh....the good ole days.
�Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politician.� �General George S. Patton, Jr.
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Cosmology and The Big Bang. I always thought it was about getting a fancy haircut.
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Bought 1 or 3 at $80 trying to get one that would consistently hit a paper plate at 100 yards, gave up and bought a Russian one, it was better.
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The best price I remember was 7.5 cents per round delivered but that was corrosive. Non corrosive was 11 cents per round. This was in late 80s in NM. Even at today's prices I can afford it better now than back then while active duty.
I'm not cheap, I'm frugal. ![[Linked Image]](http://militarysignatures.com/signatures/member501.png)
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Edited to add it went into a $100 Norinco.
I'm not cheap, I'm frugal.
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My dad bought a MAK90 for $139 in about 91-92. He got a letter not long after from the ATF that it needed to go back to the importer or ATF for an inspection. We took it back to Compasseco that imported it and it was taken by ATF. Was built on a machine gun receiver instead of having the receiver changed out before export.
Norinco SKS’s were $79. Crates upon crates of them in the gun store, slopped in cosmology. Same exact thing happened. My dad snd I ea bought one at Toses department store. He was away for a few weeks and when he came home he had a letter from ATF. I can’t recall all the details but I think he took it back and they exchanged it at the store. He still had the letter a few years ago when it came up in conversation. Timeline would’ve been same because I was 18 in mid ‘90 and it was soon after that. Bought SKS’s at same store for $69.99 on sale.
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Back in the day you could pick an SKS out of a barrel full of’em and a thousand rounds for $150. I have a case of 5.45x39 that I wound up with a few years ago but nothing to shoot it in so I s’pose now might be a good time to sell it or trade it for something I “need”.
Ahhh....the good ole days. That’s crazy talk! You need an AK74
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Norinco SKS’s were $79. Crates upon crates of them in the gun store, slopped in cosmoline.
After the Chinese SKSes were outlawed, the Russians came in just like that, crate after crate in gun stores, slopped in cosmoline, and for only a little more money.
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How cheap was it per case back then? My late father was buying the hell out of it back then just wandering how much it was costing him. About $30 for a 640 round spam can
Sam......
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In about 1988 I bought a Norinco AK and a crate (1000 rounds) of ammo from a rather notorious gun store just outside of Oakland (it was named Trader's: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/guns/procon/menace.html). They catered to gangs and basically charged them 2x what they charged normal customers. I got the AK and ammo for about $300 and back then, there were no waiting periods or bans, so I walked out the store and down the street with goodies. Those were the days... I remember that place well...
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Back in the day you could pick an SKS out of a barrel full of’em and a thousand rounds for $150. I have a case of 5.45x39 that I wound up with a few years ago but nothing to shoot it in so I s’pose now might be a good time to sell it or trade it for something I “need”.
Ahhh....the good ole days. kvar in vegas was selling that at one time, russian military stuff, that ha d the bubble in the bullet and s teel core. would be kind of pricy if you could find it. 7. 62 when the berline wall fell, east germany produced, was going for from memory about 70 bucks for a spam can. good stuff
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I paid $110 for 1000 rounds of East German steel cased 7.62x39 at a gun show back in the day.
Just realized that I'm old enough to say "back in the day."
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