SKS by Bubba -Help!

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SKS gurus, I need help please!

Did my pawn shop rounds this am and found an SKS - Norinco! clean action and bore.

But:mad:
The butt stock has been cut and fitted with a pad The whole stock has been sanded and refinished in light oak

The front sight and bayonet has been removed and a piece of steel has been slipped over the barrel and welded? extending about 4 in beyond the end of the barrel AND has 4 quarter inch holes drilled in it.

It has a side mounted centerpoint optic

They wanted 399

Should I offer 250 or walk away

No I didnt think to take a cell phone pic
 
fatcat4620 said:
No! Not worth $250
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There's legions of perfectly good, unmolested SKSs on GunBroker, or possibly in your local stores. Heck, I saw a decent looking Yugo 59/66 that didn't sell on GB for $199.

They're out there.
 
Might be worth $200 If you are looking for something to customize. The front sight bothers me though, I certainly don't think he will be getting $399 for it
 
Paid $100 for mine, a "ranch-rifle" style like yours, pawn shop, no frills, circumcised bayonet lug, no other cutting or welding or "re-finishing," regular sights, but marks where someone had used a clamp-on base for a scope on the receiver cover, good bore. (I always bring a Boresnake® and a borelight to the store after I get serious about a gun.)

Took it to the range "as is," was unreliable. NFNFBNENENN. (No feed, no freakin' bang, no extraction, no ejection, no nuthin'.)

Completely stripped and cleaned out everything.

Everything.

Enough carbon in there to run a Franklin Stove for a day or maybe two.

Depending on the weather.

Worked fine then. Hate trigger. Can't figure out why Simonev coudn't have used a nice, simple, rotary sear instead of a sliding one bearing against at least four sliding surfaces and actuated by a Rube Goldberg series of levers and whatnot and whose return spring is the mag catch spring. I'm sure he thought he was being very clever. Wow. Saved a part in the part count.

However, it is now my $100 corner gun, standing there in the corner by the front door with a sandwich bag over the muzzle to keep the spiders and earwigs out. With a couple of full stripper clips. Also in sandwich bags. I figure I got a good deal, but only after the necessary detail, I mean detail, cleaning.

You should walk away from that one, or use mine as an "appraisal comparable." A slight plus if the receiver was tapped for a sidewinder scope mount plus the sight itself, canceled by a slight minus for no front sight and the weldments you mentioned --an attempt at suppression? An attempt to bring an illegally-cut barrel back to legal length?

Can not understand why someone needed a recoil pad on the one you saw, with those sub-.30-30 ballistics, unless it was another attempt to bring a stock back to overall legal length.

There have been, I am told, cut-downs which were made before the owner knew about the barrel and overall length infringements, with subsequent attempts to bring the arm back to infringement dimensions.

Pardon me for putting it that way. :evil:

Terry, 230RN
 
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No way. Plenty of nice ones still around. Wouldn't want one bubba'd that bad, unless it was nearly "free," and I was planning to do something else with it.
 
Maybe the shop floated a decimal point - $399 should have been $39.99. Which is more than I would pay for the particular item in the condition as described.
 
dont buy somebody else's junk. you will regret that gun unless you get it for $175.00.
 
I bought a matching russian a month ago for $300 out the door with 5 boxes of Tula, from a pawn shop. The way this one sounds, if you can get it for $100 I MIGHT... Too bad you didn't get pics. That front sight sounds interesting.
 
Well, the way I read it, it has a tapped receiver and a sidewinder mount as well as wun uh them optical sights. Morevover, new stocks are findable, but you may have to do a little inletting for the sight mount. 'Pends on what you want to do with it, but check the bore first. And check that the disconnector disconnects and that the barrel without the welded-on thingie shroud is >16".

If I didn't have so many 7/8s-finished projects, I might pay $150 for something like that if it were between bills in the month.

As I say, after I decarbonated mine, I figure it was a good deal. One thing I want to do is open up the rear sight notch with a needle file.

By George, I may take it down to the range tomorrow.

Now where the heck did I put my needle file set?

Terry, 230RN
 
Walk away. Keep looking. I suspect that is what you want to do but thought you might be swayed to the contrary. Follow your gut. There are too many nice ones out there. I just bought a nice unmolested Norinco about a month ago for $300. We both live in the same general area and I'm sure I didn't get the last one around here.
 
eh if its already bubbad and your looking for a project low ball the hell out of it, like $100-150 if they dont accept walk away and go back in a month if its still there chances are theyll be more willing to sell low.

If your not looking for a project just walk away
 
I'd walk away. That thing is messed up. Badly. Usually when someone says "bubbafied SKS", it means someone put it in a cheap "tactical" stock and possibly removed the bayonet. Looks like complete crap, but it's functionally fine and could be restored to military configuration for about $50. No, in your case, someone actually messed with it. I suspect that "barrel extension" is a grafted-on Yugo grenade launcher extension. Regardless, it's far beyond the amount of effort and money you'd have to put in to fix it.
 
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you dont know who or how that weld was made. If not done correctly with a heat sink there is a very strong probability that barrel is warped. Guns are like used cars and people sell them when they are worn out or lemons.
 
About $150-$200, if all Numbers are matching and a forged trigger guard, barrel can be fixed for about $60 that includes a new front sight. SKS forums, check out the prince sight.
 
Way too much $$$$.... IMO - But I don't know what SKS prices and availibility are like in your area.... They vary wildly across the US and that might be a good deal in an assault weapons BAN state.

The BUBBA'd barrel and stuff can be easily fixed as a guy offers a replacement bolt on front sight.....

http://www.trulytactical.com/

If you do buy the rifle for a good price - What you could do, is cut the barrel to 16", use that front sight assy and make yourself a very desireable SKS Paratrooper.
Will
 
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