Question about Century Yugo SKS

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Are these quality? Is $200 a fair price?

Here is a quote regarding their condition off the website.

RIFLES ARE RATED AS NRA SURPLUS GOOD BUT SHOW SOME DENTS AND DINGS OF COURSE AS WELL AS SOME WEAR ON THE BORES.
 
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Yes - BUT, if it's "shooter" grade, it MAY have a burnt gas valve. Numrich sells new gas valves. The bores are not chrome lined, may have some minor pitting from corrosive ammo, look if you can. If you can get "unissued" grade, like I did many years ago, great rifle. At $200, even a shooter grade would not be bad at all, in today's market.
 
Well they changed condition status on the website. Now in the description it says...

UNFORTUNATELY SOME HAVE CLEANING RODS AND SOME DO NOT. IF YOU WANT TO BE SURE TO GET A CLEANING ROD AND THE BEST ONE POSSIBLE THEN ASK US TO DO A HAND SELECT AND WE WILL CERTAINLY DO THAT FOR AN ADDITIONAL $10.00. AGAIN THESE ARE NOT PREMIUM GRADE RIFLES.

Still worth $200???
 
What makes me most weary is that it says "Some wear on the bores." How much wear can the SKS take? I don't want to drop the dollars on this and it only last 1000 rounds, you know?

Merry Christmas.
 
A Yugo SKS can take alot of wear, as for the bores I wouldn't worry too much if the bore is a little dark. I have heard they are still good shooters with dark bores.
 
Well, I can't see the rifle in person. It's from Classic Arms. It just says there is wear on the bores.
 
Milsurp rifles can have bores that look like sewer pipes and deliver acceptable accuracy. If the rifing is strong it should be fine. I think you will find it to be a good shooter rifle. 1k rounds won't wear out the bore.
 
I'm pretty sure they will be very rough rifles for 200.00

As long as your eyes are open and you don't expect something real nice, it'll be OK.
 
I have three Yugo SKS rifles, two from Samco that are unissued and one from Century I bought for 99 bucks locally about two years ago.

The Century gun has a nasty ugly sewer-like bore, and had a cracked stock. I'm sure it was a bottom of the line condition gun from them but I bought it locally, so who knows? It shoots awesome despite the crappy pipe and is dead reliable. Just harder to clean.
 
SKS's...

CBR Gator--The price on SKS's seems to be going up fairly rapidly--though I hope you don't plan to send your kid to college on the profits from one--ain't gonna happen--and $200 seems about a fair price for a "shooter" in today's market.

Gone are the days when every gun show had at least one vendor with a barrel of SKS's, your choice, 85 bucks.

I'd spend the extra $10 and get hand-select, not for the cleaning rod, which is steel and will just wear the bore some more (use a plastic-coated rod) but for the increase in quality.

The bore still won't be pristine, but the rifle should be better than minute-of-pie-plate at 100 yd.

There are a lot of after-market things you can do to an SKS to make it less inaccurate (notice I did NOT say, "make it accurate;" a target rifle it will never be) but since you're dealing with a Yugo, you have to play the BATFE's game of replacing a bunch of parts if you change anything at all. Do a search on SKS's on THR here, and the whole discussion on 922r, I think it's called, will come up. That's the BATFE's rule on only using just so many imported parts in a rebuild of certain C&R rifles, of which the Yugo SKS is one. It's a silly rule, IMHO, but to stay legal you have to play ball with 'em.

Tapco makes a parts kit for the Yugo that includes enough Made in USA parts to legalize anything else you might do to it. I got one; haven't done anything with it yet--some other member will surely chime in with their results on installing all those parts.

Many shooters just leave the Yugo unaltered, and live with such accuracy as the gun has. If your rifle won't fire semi-auto, the gas valve may be turned off (rotate it 1/4 turn) or it just may be worn and leaking (replace it as Armored Man suggested.) BATFE doesn't mind if you do that, BTW.
 
Well if whatever I replace on it was with American parts, wouldn't that always keep it 922r compliant? Do I need the ability to purchase foreign parts for it or are American parts adequate?
 
I'm no expert...

on 922r, nor do I play one on TV. As I understand it, FWIW, if you replace even one major part on the Yugo SKS, you have to get it down to less than 10 of the major parts on the BATFE's list.

American parts are not only adequate, they are required, according to BATFE. The only bad thing I see about the restriction, is that if you want to modify the Yugo SKS at all (beyond minor things like a new rear sight,) you have to do a major overhaul.

Once you have the required number of American-made parts on the Yugo, you can replace or remove anything else you please.
 
Century says they are getting more 59/66 Yugo SKS rifles in excellent condition soon.

Price will be about 220.00
 
Ifyou change it to a non-importable condition, then you go ten-or-less. If you swap the stock for a Monte Carlo style, (GAH!), it woul be legal. Most say you can simply remove the bayonet and grenade launcher and be legal to do most mods.
 
I like Norinco SKSs alot more than Yugos just because theyre lighter, have a chrome lined barrel, and non of the gas port stuff to deal with.:evil:
 
Classic Arms is a straight up company run by good folks.

And it's two hundred dollars, man.

What does two hundred bucks buy you these days? Not much.

Just snag it, be happy, and go to work on it while you burn thru a bunch of cheap Wolf ammo.:)
 
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