Picked this SKS up today

$300 for that SKS? Worth it.

Jeff Burgess said:

Came with 2 30 round duckbill mags and a 20 round.

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Did you ever wonder where all of the original 10 round magazines went?
Somewhere around here I have an old original SKS stock, forget where it came from. But like magazines people swap parts around and during the life of the gun the original hardware gets separated. All those original parts have to still be floating around out there somewhere?

Enjoy your SKS as they can be a fun rifle to shoot.

Ron

Good catch. $300. Is a pretty good price these days for an SKS. I would have jumped on it too.

id pay 300 for a sks any day of the week. they go for 600+ around here.

Yeah that’s a good price. I’m quite fond of them

Nice snag. You got a good price.

Great rifles, good price and cheap ammo. Enjoy.

Based on what people get for these things nowadays, you did good. I still have the one I paid $75 for in about 93.

FL-NC said:

Based on what people get for these things nowadays, you did good. I still have the one I paid $75 for in about 93.

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I'm wishing I bought a few and some mosins in the early 2ks, course by now I'd have traded them all for other stuff lol.

Sweet rifle! I traded an AR for mine lol.

The SKS was designed with simplicity in mind, and it worked well as designed with the standard 10 round mag. Load from the top with a 10 round stripper clip, charged and ready to go. I've seen more trouble with shooters trying to increase capacity with the 30-40 round mags, plus the ergonomics of the rifle screams for the 10 round box. Usually see piles of them at any gun show, fairly cheap.

I paid $20 for mine.

SKS are great rifles & have milled recievers.

No, it is terrible terrible terrible!! You best just let me take it off your hands right now for $335. I am a giver.....


That is a great deal that you got, in my opinion. It is hard to find prices like that these days.

troy fairweather said:

id pay 300 for a sks any day of the week. they go for 600+ around here.

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Good grief! I don't know that I'd even pay that for a Russky. To me, the 59/66 is still a $100 gun, maybe double for a Norinco. I paid $325 for my 1954 Tula laminate stocked critter, but that was 12 or 13 years ago.

MachIVshooter said:

Good grief! I don't know that I'd even pay that for a Russky. To me, the 59/66 is still a $100 gun, maybe double for a Norinco. I paid $325 for my 1954 Tula laminate stocked critter, but that was 12 or 13 years ago.

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ya there pricy around here because there ny compliant. i remember my dad buying 10 gun crates for under $400 when i was a kid. i like the sks, used them for hunting quite a bit growing up. i would sell them for a quick profit an buy some good bolt guns. .

Worth it!

Don't know if this is the OP first SKS, but I'm pretty sure you're going to enjoy it. Though many of us got them way back when for very little, it's still a center fire, battle proven, semi-auto that uses inexpensive ammo for what, $300? Sounds like you did well, good luck with it!

For what it's worth, my Norinco works well with a Tapco 20 round removable magazine, has to be inserted with the bolt open though. I have a fixed 20 round Chinese star magazine I've never tried, but I've read those work well, too.

The price of the stock 10 round mags have gone up, along with the bayonets. Did people toss them and now want them back? The original 10 round matching number magazine off mine is still in my possession, but I think it should stay with the gun.

Nice find!

Do keep looking for a fixed mag... Having tried the D models with AK mag, I much prefer the fixed mag. The SKS was not designed for removable mags, and they fit as an afterthought: you have to reach deep in the magwell to lock them and rock them into place, takes some fiddling to put them in and take them out. Have not tried the duckbills, but from what I read they have their shortcomings too.

The fixed mag is unobtrusive, reliable, and very fast to reload with stripper clips of good quality. It’s also easier to carry spare clips than spare mags, much lighter too.

I miss my Type 56 Norinco SKS I bought for $90 in the 90's. Now the only SKS I have is a Yugo 59/66 that feels a lot heavier than I remember my T56 being and doesn't have a chrome lined chamber/barrel. Fortunately all of my 7.62x39 ammo is modern non-corrosive.