Speedo66
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The stamping I'm referring to is the trigger guard.If you do indeed have a stamped SKS it’s much more rare than your typical milled SKS and more valuable.
The stamping I'm referring to is the trigger guard.If you do indeed have a stamped SKS it’s much more rare than your typical milled SKS and more valuable.
Between the two, I'd rather have my FAL.
Where in CO are you?
Dang, I'm down in Colorado Springs.Up in Weld County, not far from Greeley.
Dang, I'm down in Colorado Springs.
You're allowed to like whatever you want to want.
Personally, what I think people are losing sight of is that "better" is subjective.
I love the SKS and have a lot of wonderful things to say about it. In fact, it was my first tactical style rifle. In this case, the SKS is "better" if:
I've recommended so many new pandemic shooters to SKSes and showed them how to use them that it's not even funny.
- If you're running a soviet country in 1945 and trying to crank out a rifle en masse with a few moving parts that fires a widely available, cheap to produce round for combat effective at <200 meters, the SKS is your answer.
- It's an ideal budget s̶t̶u̶f̶f̶ ̶h̶i̶t̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶f̶a̶n̶ emergency rifle for someone who wants a cheap semi-automatic with widely available ammo.
- It's an easy semi-auto to teach people who have little to no firearms / tactical firearms experience since it's shaped like a traditional hunting rifle.
- You can easily store 2k rounds even at post pandemic prices for like 40 cents a round.
- If you really want, you can use the duck billed magazines. Purists cry and flip out about it, but I've never had a bad experience with one. It's not as ergonomic as an AR-15 magazine, but virtually no other magazine really is. Keyboard warriors who never served in the military arguing that it's impossible do not impress me.
That said, I wouldn't have any qualms about having a M1A over an SKS. It can basically do everything the SKS can performance wise and more. The main reason I don't have an M1A right now is that I could literally buy 2 or 3 SKSs for the price of 1 M1A. I'd rather put that money into ammo at this point.
Yes well said. It depends on your criteria. The question I have that nowadays is that prices are going crazy . I was at a gun show and an SKS was listed for $850. Ammo was $40 a box.. Of course an M-14 will still be higher priced but a better value if you can afford it. Not to start another discussion but An AR makes more sense all the way around. More available cheaper, I built a Delton for $600 total which is a better gun in every way. Of course you may not agree. Regardless of preference the big economic advantage of the SKS no longer exists. From that aspect an AR which can be built in a variety of rounds is actually cheaper. But as long as ammo is available an SKS is fine the use described. Lots of guys keep one around. Gun bans could make them more valuable.You're allowed to like whatever you want to want.
Personally, what I think people are losing sight of is that "better" is subjective.
I love the SKS and have a lot of wonderful things to say about it. In fact, it was my first tactical style rifle. In this case, the SKS is "better" if:
I've recommended so many new pandemic shooters to SKSes and showed them how to use them that it's not even funny.
- If you're running a soviet country in 1945 and trying to crank out a rifle en masse with a few moving parts that fires a widely available, cheap to produce round for combat effective at <200 meters, the SKS is your answer.
- It's an ideal budget s̶t̶u̶f̶f̶ ̶h̶i̶t̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶f̶a̶n̶ emergency rifle for someone who wants a cheap semi-automatic with widely available ammo.
- It's an easy semi-auto to teach people who have little to no firearms / tactical firearms experience since it's shaped like a traditional hunting rifle.
- You can easily store 2k rounds even at post pandemic prices for like 40 cents a round.
- If you really want, you can use the duck billed magazines. Purists cry and flip out about it, but I've never had a bad experience with one. It's not as ergonomic as an AR-15 magazine, but virtually no other magazine really is. Keyboard warriors who never served in the military arguing that it's impossible do not impress me.
That said, I wouldn't have any qualms about having a M1A over an SKS. It can basically do everything the SKS can performance wise and more. The main reason I don't have an M1A right now is that I could literally buy 2 or 3 SKSs for the price of 1 M1A. I'd rather put that money into ammo at this point.
Not to me. I have hunted with both. The SKS is long front heavy clunky and much less powerful. I think you mean the Winchester 94 lever action which is an excellent hunting rifle. It is light, slim, short, well balanced and very fast handling. It is also chambered in 30-30 which is much more powerful, more accurate and with a long history of being plenty to kill anything in North America. The SKS recoils much less and you don't have to work the action for follow up shots. The '94 in 30-30 is the best stalking in the woods rifle ever.I always figured that the SKS is more or less the clip-loading, semi-auto equivalent of a Winchester '98 carbine.
It fills its own niche, which is not at all the same one as an M-1a.
Between the two, I'd rather have my FAL.
Some of you guys are vastly overestimating the effectiveness of the SKS .vs M-14. It is not a handy carbine, it is long and bulky, about the same size as an M-14 but more front heavy. Poor handling. The power and accuracy is also a huge difference at any range. I fought against them and used them for hunting. I also was issued an m-14 and ;later an M-16. To think an SKS is very effective beyond 125-150 yards is certainly not true except volley fire and marginal at that. First of all you can't hit anything in an aimed shot, and the energy level and trajectory really drops beyond that. An AK being shorter and full auto is a different story. Meanwhile an M-14 is more lethal close and where penetration is needed and by contrast a good shot can hit a person at 600 meters with enough energy to kill. Something we were still doing when I was in training. So no an SKS isn't better at any range. And I don't believe any stories about long range shots. You're welcome to come in person under field conditions. Btw one of my best friends was a Sniper equipped with an M-14 and you can read about it in the book "Black Horse Riders" a history of a real battle he was in.