I went to a gun show yesterday and saw that all the Yugo SKSs that were selling for $89-99 3 months ago are now priced at $179-189. Does anybody know why they doubled in price?
Yugo SKS's double in price?
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Just a guess, but look who won the last election.
Supply and demand. My local ffl can't keep ak's ar's of saiga 12's in the store, people (myself included) think a ban is coming and they are being snatched up.
Supply and demand. My local ffl can't keep ak's ar's of saiga 12's in the store, people (myself included) think a ban is coming and they are being snatched up.
The Yugo SKSs are no different than any other surplus weapon. When they were flooding the market, they were inexpensive. Now that the supply is dwindling, the price is rising. Same with the K31s, etc. Look at the crazy pricing of 7.62NATO and 5.56NATO ammunition for another, even more extreme example of supply and demand in action.
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Pelosi has said "reasonable" gun control is a priority...
That's why I've been buying a few things...
That's why I've been buying a few things...
Phaetos
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Exactly Dog .. exactly. I actually ran into a cosmo'd Yugo with all matching stamped numbers this weekend at a show for $150. I couldn't swing the $50 + tax to get it. I couldn't even talk the guy down $25 and then ADD more stuff to buy from him. Hejust wouldn't budge. I shoulda got it. I saw it today being sold to some thugs who currently don't have a record but look like they will by next weekend. It was going to a bad bad home. I felt so bad for it. They had no clue what the cosmo was nor how to get rid of it. I am thinking bad things about what should happen to them. 
Check condition
You probably saw a bunch of rifles in "shooter grade" condition before, starting price on those is 89-99 dollars. Excellent condition to NEw condition will run you in the range of 200 to 225 dollars, perhaps more, depending on where you live.
Just buy what you want and be happy with it.
You probably saw a bunch of rifles in "shooter grade" condition before, starting price on those is 89-99 dollars. Excellent condition to NEw condition will run you in the range of 200 to 225 dollars, perhaps more, depending on where you live.
Just buy what you want and be happy with it.
If they can't clean the cosmoline off of it, it isn't going to work. You should have given them your phone number, and told them that when it won't fire right you'll buy it from them.
+1 that the $175 and over guns are often new or unissued. For a while Classic Arms had "new" ones for $169, although I'm not sure if they still have them.
Keep in mind that you were at a gun show. I've pretty much given up on gun shows to find deals. Anymore it seems that every gun at a show is rare or has all matching parts, or is a sniper model, or was carried by Che Guevara himself, or something else that allows it to command top dollar.
When some clown tried to tell me that a Norinco he was selling with a cheap scope mounted on the rear housing was a rare Romanian sniper gun, I lost the last shred of hope I had in finding a deal at a gun show.
Aim still has VG condition Yugos for $120.
When some clown tried to tell me that a Norinco he was selling with a cheap scope mounted on the rear housing was a rare Romanian sniper gun, I lost the last shred of hope I had in finding a deal at a gun show.
Aim still has VG condition Yugos for $120.
I was at the Little Rock gun show yesterday. I completely agree about the milsurp gun prices. A few Norincos at $189, one Russian at almost $300 (but it was in beautiful condition. A WASR AK 47 for $329. Very beat up Mosin Nagant 91/30s for $120, nice ones at $150.
A pretty good selection of Lever 30-30's from $200 on up, including a clean, scoped Marlin for $225.
I ended up buying a Savage 110 in .223 for $225 out the door. A set of Leupold rings was on it. Took it to the range this morning and got some pretty tight groups. I'm confident it will be a 1 MOA rifle once the scope gets dialed in.
A pretty good selection of Lever 30-30's from $200 on up, including a clean, scoped Marlin for $225.
I ended up buying a Savage 110 in .223 for $225 out the door. A set of Leupold rings was on it. Took it to the range this morning and got some pretty tight groups. I'm confident it will be a 1 MOA rifle once the scope gets dialed in.
Phaetos
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Yeh, I should have done that, but somehow I got the feeling I didn't really want to know them in any fashion. There were some good deals to be had, such as the Mosin I got for $115, at least good around these parts. I went back today to get a few things more, and they had just unboxed a new Norinco SKS model SKS-S. Never seen one of those, the guy was saying that it was made to have the short barrel and gas tube. Not a cutdown version as the other Sportster models were. Asking $359 I think.
Did it have a metal handguard on top? Sounds like what they advertise as Paratroopers, should be a 16" barrel. Mine shoots great...
But that price is a little high.
Anything like this?
Phaetos
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It was a wood handguard top and bottom, and your picture isn't showing. It did look physically different than the other Chinese they had on the rack. The others had long gas tubes and the short barrels. This one had a physically shorter gas tube, it looked in proportion to the rest of the furniture and barrel length.
1. Last election won by Democrats
2. Incoming supply from overseas drying up fast
3. Increased demand
4. All of the above
If you answered #4, you're right. Ammo has doubled in price too.
The golden days of cheap SKS's are fast coming to an end. I would pick one up sooner rather than later if you want one. There are still good deals to be had out there (other than gunshows!), but they are going up everywhere and the quality is not as good. The "unissued" ones that were so prevalent there for several years are now pretty much gone or nearly gone.
2. Incoming supply from overseas drying up fast
3. Increased demand
4. All of the above
If you answered #4, you're right. Ammo has doubled in price too.
The golden days of cheap SKS's are fast coming to an end. I would pick one up sooner rather than later if you want one. There are still good deals to be had out there (other than gunshows!), but they are going up everywhere and the quality is not as good. The "unissued" ones that were so prevalent there for several years are now pretty much gone or nearly gone.
You most likely saw shooter grade vs. "new". I've heard that there are something like 5 different 'grades' for sks's (at the wholesale level).
For a really 'new' one look at http://www.samcoglobal.com/rifles.html...and if you have your C&R you can order it right from them.
For a really 'new' one look at http://www.samcoglobal.com/rifles.html...and if you have your C&R you can order it right from them.
Pelosi's "priority" of gun control is what made the purchases of my SKS (December) and AR15 (January) top priority. I had been saving to buy them, and figured I better go ahead and get them now, as theres no telling what the future holds.
I got my Yugo M59/66 SKS in "new/unissued" condition for $139 at Cabelas. My brand new Bushmaster M4A3 was $899 at Sportsmans Warehouse.
I got my Yugo M59/66 SKS in "new/unissued" condition for $139 at Cabelas. My brand new Bushmaster M4A3 was $899 at Sportsmans Warehouse.
The guys who seems to put most the gun laws into the senate over the past several years seems to be Trent Lott and Orrin Hatch. It doesn't help when we had a president and vice president that both supported the awb and openly said many times they don't believe civilians should have access to any firearm without a clear sporting purpose.
Pelosi is dreaming of course if she think she get gunlaws through now. Many of the new Democrats happen to be progun and won't support her while a number of antigun Republicans lost their positions in 2006. I am more concerned that in the next two years we get a presidential order to start banning more firearms (we already had the chinese firearm ban extended and the ban on imported barrels on military firearms and so on) and no one will even bring it up.
Pelosi is dreaming of course if she think she get gunlaws through now. Many of the new Democrats happen to be progun and won't support her while a number of antigun Republicans lost their positions in 2006. I am more concerned that in the next two years we get a presidential order to start banning more firearms (we already had the chinese firearm ban extended and the ban on imported barrels on military firearms and so on) and no one will even bring it up.
Yep, went to one yesterday in Nashville Tennesse. Basic SKS was $250 and up. $450 for a very used Russian. Everything has gone up in the past half of a year.
Mil surp bolt actions are up too, worn K98 not matching was $520. Enfields over $300.
Mil surp bolt actions are up too, worn K98 not matching was $520. Enfields over $300.
SKS-S ?????????
I've got an SKS-M, and I've seen SKS-Ds,but I've never heard of an SKS-S.If anyone has more detail, please enlighten us!
Editied to add: searched around and I can't find any reference to an "SKS-S" anywhere.
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What do you expect, they're elitists. The only presidents in the past 100 years that werent elitists, and actually identified with "Joe on the street" average Americans were Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.
So it looks like I'd get a good price for my 59/66 if I need to part with it. Un-issued with matching numbers. That and the 500 rds of SP ammo that would be included should make it an attractive item for someone.
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I saw some new (unissued) at a gun show last fall for $119.00 each. But, the bottom line is that the prices will go nowhere but UP. Supply and demand coupled with the fear of a closed market courtesy of the Democratic Party. I fear that what is moderate for them will be extreme for us.
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