I didnt know SKS was dubbed as redneck

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I recently bought an early Chinese SKS(made on Russian machinery) for $100. It looked like it had been in the bed of a truck on a rough road. It looked terrible, but still had a great bore. I refinished the stock & metal, polished the trigger, and mounted a vintage Weaver Marksman 4x scope. I now have a carbine that shoots 2" groups for $100 and some elbow grease. It won't win a beauty contest, but it put 3 deer in the freezer last year!
 
I've owned a few when I was on a very slim rifle budget and love the SKS and AK's for what they are we had a lot of fun. Now I have just as much actually more fun with the AR-15. I've sold off the SKS's AK's and a PSL. But for some reason still have a pile of Mosins? go figure.
 
I bought two Norinco SKSs for $200 each in early 1993 when the Clinton ban was in the rumor stage, one standard and one "D" with the factory AK mag and shortened barrel. "Redneck" or no, I'm glad I bought them. They're flawlessly reliable and fun to own and shoot. I don't think I'd sell them for triple the price I paid.
 
My first experience with SKSes was when I was out at the dump shooting shotguns with my dad and grandpa when I was 14 or so. We had some cans and bottles set up on an old fridge that we were going to shoot. A beat up old truck rolls up and 3 guys hop out wearing a mix of jeans, BDUs, and old mechanics' shirts, with mangy hair and beards, rotten and missing teeth, spittin chaw, and all 3 carrying an SKS with a 30 round mag. One of them plops down kneeling and the others are standing, and they just rip into our cans and bottles as fast as they could pull the trigger. After they all click on empty all the targets are gone. They laugh and whoop it up a little, then hop in the truck and take off. We were just kinda standing there dumbfounded.

So yes, I could say that my initial impression was that SKSes are kinda redneck guns. However, I thought it was pretty friggin awesome, and a year later I had one of my own! ;) Come to think of it, I have known a lot of rednecks that own SKSes though.
 
Guy I know is a SOT and can make pretty much any full auto or suppressed gun he wants to. 100% legally.

I've shot some of his toys and while fun, full auto, generally speaking, wastes money and is pretty much totally inaccurate. For example, the UZI would keep 3 or 4 round bursts on a phone book at 10 yards but longer distance or longer bursts would just empty the mag as it climbed. And the UZI is a 8lb 9mmP weapon. The AK, and HK (.308) were worse.

The AR OTOH, is surprisingly controllable in full auto, as long as you keep the bursts short.

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Ur totally right, the sks rifles and carbines are one of the most redneck guns you could own. They're right up there with the six series from ruger and 686's. You would be much better off buying rifles and handguns in the 7-800 dollar and up range because these eyesores are not worth wasting your money on.

Maybe then the price would go back down :) In the past i've paid $100 and in a few cases a little less for sks rifles. About 4 years ago I bought a yugo still in cosmoline for 169 from cabelas. This is no longer the case, all I have found for the past couple years in shops run around 300 up. It's hard to pay that when a couple years ago it was half the price.

I gotta admit, I never ever even once thought I would double or triple my $ with cheap, reliable, fun to shoot and almost unbreakable sks's. Didn't think this price increase would last this long either. Shoulda kept more than 1!
 
Wish I'd bought more SKSs and MAK-90s in the early 90s when they were cheap!
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Back in the early 90s I bought a non-refurb Russian SKS at a gun show for $125. At the time I didn't realize what a bargain it really was. Glad I still have it!
 
While some rednecks may like the SKS, it doesn't make it a redneck rifle. I appreciate the SKS as a military carbine, a very interesting and respected carbine the world over. It was cheap for many years back when China was dumping them on us (man, I miss those days). I've only kept 2 over the years... A Yugo I use as a blaster and a Russian I keep for its beauty and for being a real Russian. I will grab another Chicom one of these days just to have.
 
I would really like to have an SKS, but I can't see paying the same money for one as for an AK. I want one as a shooter, I'm not particularly interested in collecting the arms of the Eastern Bloc. I'm more interested in a dead-reliable rifle in 7.62x39.

And as to the redneck stigma, well, any rifle that you could buy for under $100 will get that reputation. I think that will begin to fade away now that it is reaching a price point where it is more a collectible than a beater rifle.

As a matter of fact, an acquaintance that I would call a redneck was just bragging about his "new" SKS. He showed me a picture and of course it was in the redneck required Tapco stock with the 30 round magazine. I'm not sure if he could hear my eyes rolling, but I bet my wife could have.
 
I got two SKS rifles in 1988 for 85 bucks each, 1200 round wooden crates of the 7.62x39 ammo was 90 bucks a pop.

Loaded with 150-160 grain hard cast GC boolits, the SKS for power beomes a cheap shooting semi-auto .30-30.
 
Well, I guess I'm a Redneck too? I sold the AR and kept the SKS.....
You think I should sell the M1A too? NOT
The Mosin Nagants are the "new era" RedNeck sportin' rifles around here at $99+ a pop
Put a new fangle plastik stock onit and ooooh doggie!!

My $100 Yugo SKS shoots pie plates with open sight at 200 yards ( average $.25 a round)
I have not seen a $100 SKS in years-
 
A decent SKS will shoot minute-of-Skoal can all day long. Nothing redneck about that! :D
 
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