SKS Rifles

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While a bunch of SKS folks are hanging around......anyone know where I might find the buttplate assembly for an East German SKS stock? It is a cup type like on a K98k Mauser rather than a simple plate and only fits the East German stock.

Also did any complete East German SKS make it into the USA?

Never got to see an actual Complete East German SKS.....but the MPiK East German AKM I got to handle back the summer of '75 was very well made.

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I asked my father in law what he paid for his yesterday while we were out fishing and he said it was $89. He said he bought it from a sporting goods dealer that had bought a litteral truckload of them and the sale was $89 for one, or $69 each if you bought 10 or more.
 
Mosin Bubba said:
I have a Norinco I got for $280. It's a shooter: the stock is in rough shape but it works fine.

People don't always think of an SKS as a milsurp, but in my mind, it's a lot closer to an M44 Mosin than an AK. It's got that near-indestructible construction typical of its day, with a heavy hardwood stock and milled steel receiver, plus a huge bolt that I'm sure will come down on my fingers some time. Punching those fat cartridges into the magazine, dialing in the range on the rear sight I don't know, it just feels like a world-war era rifle. It gives me those same kind of warm, fuzzy milsurp feelings as a Mosin or a Mauser, but the 25 cent non-corrosive ammo and total lack of kick means it's often a lot nicer to shoot. SKS's are fun guns to have, and I'm glad I own one.
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That's because it is; its basically a scaled down PTRS-41 anti-tank rifle.
 
I like SKS and still have 4; however, I wonder if I would like them as much at today's price! SKS is not imported anymore and price got up a lot, you won't find one cheap as used to be. I got into the game late, missed the good old $80 SKS days, all my SKSs were acquired $200 or less while ARs were at least $600, they are great shooters at the price. I think today's price would be $350-400, I would spend on AR!
 
I love my SKS rifles, I'd swear the damn things are nearly nuclear bomb proof they're so reliable, not to mention they're 200 yrd tack drivers . Yes some of them are plagued with trigger issues but those issues are fairly easy to solve for the most part with a decent trigger job.

I actually sold a Russian Tula a couple weeks ago and picked up a really nice Yugo 59/66 to go with my rare DP marked 4 Chinese kanji character SKS from the Jilin Providence.

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I'm one of the local SKS Junkies and the only so-called SKS that I've laid my hands on and absolutely hated was one of the Norinco -M spotters that was rigged up to use conventional AK magazines. That thing was the biggest POS I've ever laid my hands on and I was finally glad just to get rid of the damn thing with the problems it was plagued with. It turns out it wasn't even a real SKS rifle, just a cheap production knockoff piece of crap built specifically for export to the Western Market.
 
gsbuickman said:
I love my SKS rifles, I'd swear the damn things are nearly nuclear bomb proof they're so reliable, not to mention they're 200 yrd tack drivers . Yes some of them are plagued with trigger issues but those issues are fairly easy to solve for the most part with a decent trigger job.

I actually sold a Russian Tula a couple weeks ago and picked up a really nice Yugo 59/66 to go with my rare DP marked 4 Chinese kanji character SKS from the Jilin Providence.

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I'm one of the local SKS Junkies and the only so-called SKS that I've laid my hands on and absolutely hated was one of the Norinco -M spotters that was rigged up to use conventional AK magazines. That thing was the biggest POS I've ever laid my hands on and I was finally glad just to get rid of the damn thing with the problems it was plagued with. It turns out it wasn't even a real SKS rifle, just a cheap production knockoff piece of crap built specifically for export to the Western Market.
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Did you hate to have to take off the bayonet to install the bipod ?
 
Pretty cool but three of the four Simonovs I've had had feed issues. Got jaded with the weapons system and seld it. I'm a 7.62x51mm man now.
 
As long as we're talking SKS........ The triggers have been mentioned several times already and I agree they're not exactly great. So I dug out two of the three that are here along with the Lyman digital trigger pull gauge. The first was the Norinco I got new back in 1992; trigger averages 4 lbs. 15 oz...... I would have guessed it was heavier, it feels that way. The other Chinese I picked up used in 2013 and don't know how many rounds have been through it before I got it. According to my log its had exactly 400 rounds through it since I got it in 2013. Trigger averages 6 lbs.5oz. and that also feels even heavier. But they do work and I've never seen anything about trigger problems on them other than "This trigger sucks!" .... Never had any problems with either of 'em for any other issues. They ain't tack drivers but they just keep on working. I would have thought the one I got used might be "broken in" a bit more and have a little better trigger but that's not the case. The Norinco I got new in 1992 is the 4 lb. trigger one and to date has only 454 rounds through it including some 7.62x39 handloads I experimented with about 10 yrs. ago. Not gonna get serious enough about an SKS to worry about trigger jobs as long as they work.
 
I never had much interest in a SKS back when they were cheap. I remember looking at the Russians at my LGS for $79.95 and thinking that they were interesting, but not interesting enough to actually buy one. I did pick up a Chinese SKS for seventy bucks in '94 to help a friend out that needed money. I shot it a few times and liked it, but another friend wanted it so I sold it to him for what I paid for it.

Fast forward to 2014 and I somehow got interested in the Russian version and imagine my surprise at the prices they were getting for them. I bought a couple at a gun show for less than the going rate and started shooting them and fell in love with those rifles. I now have three of them (all Russian) and it seems that nearly every time I go out shooting I take one with me.
 
Dakota, that's a nice rifle. Russian action for sure but that stock is not. I have one that's very similar and it's a Polish Honor Guard stock. A number of years ago a fellow in Warsaw was selling them on ebay. Dang nice.

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IMO, a SKS with a bipod and mediocre scope is the best combination for the gun.

I've taken 2 coyotes this way and 1 Doe.

Plus they are very cheap to shoot, maintain, and repair.
 
I remember when these were first coming into the country around 1990 or so. I very nearly bought one then, but I guess I was distracted by something else. In 2005, I acquired a case of 7.62x39 in a trade and went looking for a rifle to shoot it all. I went to a gun show to look at AKs, but I came home with a $200 unissued Yuko SKS 59/66. I kept it nearly 10 years and enjoyed it mightily, but I then sold it for $450 after finally getting an AK, thinking I'd no longer have much need of the SKS. I soon parted with the AK and missed that Yugo SKS I'd had. I found another (also for $450) with a serial number less than 100 apart from the one I'd had originally. I guess I'll keep it. I was looking at it just the other day in my gun cabinet, and it occurred to me how similar the big Yuko SKS is to an M1 Garand (which sits right beside my SKS in the cabinet). Though very different mechanically, they are dimensionally similar. I enjoy both of them a lot.
 
I bought a new Norinco SKS in 1996 for $121.50 including tax and a 20-round package of 7.62x39 NC FMJ. The price seemed too good to pass up. Back then the SKS was ubiquitous - a good, inexpensive 'folks rifle'. I always chuckled at how I would see 7.62x39mm ammo displayed for sale in every little mom & pop gas station or one-room store down in the Missouri Ozarks. It was quite a popular and useful firearm. About 15 years later I finally cleaned the cosmoline out (with special attention to the bolt / firing pin) and shot it with my grown son. I was amazed at how much more comfortable it was to shoot than an AK47.

Followed the Norinco up with a Chinese Type 56 in 2014 for $288.00 delivered on my 03FFL from Classic Firearms. Still have not cleaned the cosmoline out of the Type 56, but I take a look at it every year or two to appreciate the 'character' evident in the old stock. Those are the only two Chinese manufactured firearms I have owned - having the SKS(s) has helped to keep me from wanting to buy an AK47.

I bet that reading this thread has been a trip down memory lane for a number of us old geezers.
 
I like mine better than my AKM. Better balance, better safety, better receiver,
better sight radius. With the internal 10 round mag, you can reload, top off
the mag, when you're not pulling the trigger, or use stripper clips.
 
My SKS is Soviet but imported from storage in the former Ukrainian SSR. The stock on mine is Soviet laminate, and the top hand guard is the original arctic birch. Laminated stocks were swapped in during refurbishment, which is what a square with a diagonal line through means.
 
Dakota, that really is nice. There's no way to say that my stock is actually made in Poland. They look similar enough that mine could just as easily also be Ukranian. Mine was refinished too, it was really rough when I got it.
 
Cooldill said:
Pretty cool but three of the four Simonovs I've had had feed issues. Got jaded with the weapons system and seld it. I'm a 7.62x51mm man now.
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Those SKSs had to have external mags. I've never heard of a feed issue with a stock SKS, with the internal 10 round mag.
 
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