Quote: "Back when Soviet Communism was a going concern, Makarovs were rare in the U.S. The guy might have got $600 for a Mak then."
Funny story along those lines. I'm into SKS's these days. I picked up an unissued Yugo for $149 the other day. The funny part? I know a collector who collects SKS's, and back in the late '80s, you could not get a Yugo SKS, they were just too scarce in this country. He was trying to get one from every country that made them. The guy stumbled across a Yugo and picked it up for....$1,200! At the time, it was a great find, there were very very few even in the country and that's about what they ran. We all know how that turned out. Win some, lose some, eh?