lionking
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Especially with used and surplus.
I just got a Russian SKS off gun broker, the seller listed 35 photos of it, in every angle and even torn apart. He even showed the dust cover upside down with rifle torn apart. What he DID NOT show is the top of the cover. Which after receiving the rifle it has a scrubbed cover no date or star or anything on the top, but serial on cover matches the rest of the rifle though.
Wanting just one Russian SKS to fill my collector wish, I'm kind of disappointed because of this. While I'm not a SKS expert every Russian SKS I have ever seen has a date on the cover. I don't blame the seller I blame myself for missing that detail not in the pics. It is suppose to be a 1951 Tula but I have no idea if it is.
I have bought many things off gun broker and other sites, with a 99% happy rate, but just saying you have to look at every single detail of what is shown and also what is NOT shown.
When I test fire it and if it shoots good it will redeem my purchase but there will always be that nagging little thing when I look at it.
I just got a Russian SKS off gun broker, the seller listed 35 photos of it, in every angle and even torn apart. He even showed the dust cover upside down with rifle torn apart. What he DID NOT show is the top of the cover. Which after receiving the rifle it has a scrubbed cover no date or star or anything on the top, but serial on cover matches the rest of the rifle though.
Wanting just one Russian SKS to fill my collector wish, I'm kind of disappointed because of this. While I'm not a SKS expert every Russian SKS I have ever seen has a date on the cover. I don't blame the seller I blame myself for missing that detail not in the pics. It is suppose to be a 1951 Tula but I have no idea if it is.
I have bought many things off gun broker and other sites, with a 99% happy rate, but just saying you have to look at every single detail of what is shown and also what is NOT shown.
When I test fire it and if it shoots good it will redeem my purchase but there will always be that nagging little thing when I look at it.