Question about Century Yugo SKS

[piratelooking@40]

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.

This.

 

[NC-Mike]

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.

Well its not really 200 dollars... If you can get a better example of a given firearm for 40 dollars more or 60 dollars more than that figure should be the consideration. You can grab one of those 200 dollar jobs and get a rifle with a sewer-pipe for a bore and a blown out gas valve that won't inspire very much pride of ownership.

Always buy the very best you can afford and you'll never be disappointed. There plenty of people who get a case of buyers remorse to go along with "great deal" they got.

Not true in every case but it applies more times than not.

 

[Thin Black Line]

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

A good amount of gasoline (and stabil) before it goes back up to $5/gal.

A good amount of rice before it goes back up to $1/lb.

 

[jjohnson]

Good Price

Oh, yes.

I paid $200 for my Yugo five or six years ago, and that was either new or nearly new with an arsenal refurb. Packed in Cosmoline with serial record blank for issue, so I'm guessing it was test fired only.

Anyway, yes, if it's in VG condition or better, it's an excellent price.

 

[cbrgator]

Well its apparently in very used condition. That's why I'm still torn.

 

[cracked butt]

My advice from experience with Century:

Don't buy anything from them that they grade at 'good condition' buy at the very minimum their 'excellent condition' grading.

Century tends to overgrade their stuff, a 'good' condition rifle is likely to have a badly damaged stock and a completely worn out or pitted bore, with any luck none of the other parts will be bent, broken, or rusted up in that condition.

Century's 'Very good' condition usually means a good stock and badly damaged bore, or vice versa.

I'll still buy 'excellent' condition stuff from them, but only after careful inspection, and it has to be a really good example at that.

 

[Almond27]

you have to take in account these are all opinions, for example I was in the market for an AK before and after the election. I started doing research and alot of what I saw was Oh don't buy Century anything they're junk assembled by a homeless guy off the street. Well I informed myself of what made people consider their stuff junk and went and started looking at WASR10/63 probably #1 on the junk list and I found one that seemed to not have the common problems, and so far its ran like a dream. Sorry about the rant but some people's opinions are simply that. You can't listen to people all the time who think they are all of a sudden experts when they get behind the keyboard. My opinion if want it go for it, if you get a lemon by chance I'm sure Classic will let you send it back. /Rant off

 

[cracked butt]

Well I informed myself of what made people consider their stuff junk and went and started looking at WASR10/63 probably #1 on the junk list and I found one that seemed to not have the common problems, and so far its ran like a dream.

I would imagine the vast majority of the WASR's run well as a AK is a very difficult rifle to screw up (there are children in parts of the world that make serviceable AKs using hand tools and scrap metal) yet somehow Century still finds ways to do it. A friend of mine (yes he really exists and sometimes posts here, PM me if you want his screen name) actually had to have one sent back because it wouldn't chamber a round. The thing shoots great now- I've shot it a few times.

At least AKs are hard to screw up, ask around about Century built CETMEs and Garands if you really want to find out how Century got the reputation of having poorly trained monkeys putting their rifles together.