The current price of SKS's

[XD-40 Shooter]

Today's Big 5 add has Yugo SKS's for $400! $400!. I'm REALLY glad I bought mine 2 years ago for $150.

 

[ColinthePilot]

WOW! Thats ridiculous. I got my Yugo almost 3 years ago for less than 200. I saw them at the show last weekend (pretty banged up) for about 200.

 

[Mt Shooter]

I got mine over 10 years ago for $65.00

 

[Crazy Fingers]

Oh my God. Retail stores are often ridiculously overpriced, but that's bad!

 

[mdlmkr7.62]

Unissued Yugo SKS' are getting pretty scarce. $400 - $500 seems a little out of the range I'd ever expect to pay for an SKS though

7.62

 

[Crazy Fingers]

If anyone in FL wants mine, I'll sell it for the great price of $350

 

[craig]

they had some norincos at the local show today. $450 and up.

 

[HeadlandRam]

The show here had em going from $200 to $600.

The Norinco's were going from $250 to $389 depending on condition.

I saw a "Mall Ninja special" sks with tapco stock, some weird aimpoint like sight 50 round mag and a literal flasklight ducked taped to it for $600

 

[jws527]

If people are asking $400 for a Yugo SKS, then what are they pricing their AK variants at?

 

[Gingerbreadman]

More than $400...I saw that yesterday at a gunshow.

 

[tigre]

I got mine for $250 at a Tampa show a month or so ago.

 

[19-3Ben]

That's just retail store pricing though.

Real world prices are much more reasonable (although still pricey compared to what they were 3-4 years ago...but then again, what isn't? Bought ammo lately?)

 

[LKB3rd]

I got one a month or so ago. It is in used, but good condition, and I paid $229. It actually has 15 notches on the buttplate/pad!

 

[Cmdr. Gravez0r]

Typically they come up on Gunboards in about the 200 range. I saw a ver nice one at a gun show last week for $200.

 

[dieselmech]

i got my 1954 russian for $119.00 and it came with 200 rounds. but that was 15 years ago. last one I saw was $600.

 

[35 Whelen]

Our local Big 5 has them for $319.99. Absurd. I bought my first SKS, a Yugo, about 2-3 years ago from a local small time dealer. Excellent condition, out the door for $125.00. Then a couple of years ago,Centerfire Systems ran a "Cracked Stock Special" on Yugo's selling them for $99.00. I bought two.
In my opinion, the attraction to the SKS's, except among collectors, has been their low price. Maybe when they get so high, as they are now, people will stop buying them and the price will go down.
35W

 

[mbdolfin]

i remember when the norinco's were $79.00

i remember when the norinco's were $79.00 back in the mid 1990's. i just went to valley forge show a couple weeks ago and the yugo's were going for $300.00

 

[marktx]

The Big 5 price is high and at least at my local one they will readily admit it. The prices are set up the corporate level.... these are of course the same folks who regularly put Mosin Nagants on sale for $79. Sure you can get 91/30s and M44s for a few bucks cheaper online but you will spend the sales tax saving on shipping and unless you have a C&R FFL then any remaining savings to get a gun shop to do the transfer for you.

 

[HJ857]

Dunhams had Yugo SKS for $179.99 this past weekend and probably still on sale for that price yet today if they follow their usual pricing scheme. It'll go up a bit after that, and this is for the central Michigan area.

 

[sarge83]

I bought 3 SKS's over the summer. 2 norincoa and 1 romanian. All in good condition. Paid between $219-$229 OTD for each at the local pawn shop. The romanian looked darn near brand new.

 

[Speedo66]

I remember new Norinco SKSs being $79-89 at the shows, of course at that time Swedish Mausers were in the same price range. So if the SKS are in the $300-400 range, it shouldn't surprise me that the Swedes are in that range too, if you can find one.

Where at that time, and still, could you find a brand new high powered semi auto in that price range? Fortunately, ammo is still relatively cheap.

Everything goes up, we just have to get used to it.

 

[KC0QGL]

I saw a preban Chinese SKS with a Dragunov style stock for $300 at a local pawn shop.

 

[chipperi]

I got mine in early 94 before the awb when I turned 18. A Norinco SKS and a case of Norinco 7.62x39 as a package for $110.

 

[krs]

I've seen a lot of Russian SKS's from the 1950's going upwards of $350. but thought the Yugos would never go above about $150.

It's just the way it goes - if you want one buy it - the price will be higher the longer you wait.

Good thing about Big 5 is that they don't much care what the market or collectors think. They'll price a new item for all it might be worth but if it doesn't move they'll eventually blitz it out of there at a big discount. Wouldn't surprise me to get a weekly Big 5 ad showing those Yugos at 1/2 price in a couple of months.

I bought my first 1896 Swedish Mausser at a Big 5 in Berkeley, CA for $79.95 about ten years ago. Where are they now??

 

[rxdi01]

Wow, thats a crazy price. I just got mine at a Dunhams on sale a few weeks back for $179