So I bought an SKS today ...

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I bought them by the crate in the 80's. used to fill an old whiskey barrel up with them at the gun shows your choice $69.........they will never be worth what they are asking for them now to me
Yep, I have over a dozen. Chinese, Russian, Yugo, Romanian, Albanian... Didn't pay over $100.00 for any of them. Had lots of fun on the range back when 7.62 x 39 was also dirt cheap. Current pricing seems insane, but that's supply and demand for you.
 

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Bayonet cut. The proof marks.
That's a score. Early Chinese with the blade cut are definitely sought after.
Picked up what was advertised as your average everyday Norinco SKS. It was listed as numbers matching and all the normal SKS ad stuff. Met up with the guy checked bore and did a quick numbers check all good. Got home and started really checking it out and I ended up with a kind of unique one. It's a Sino-Soviet letter prefix. Even has the V Cut for the bayonet instead of the U cut. Arsenal 26 stamp is barely struck on it.
 

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I bought them by the crate in the 80's. used to fill an old whiskey barrel up with them at the gun shows your choice $69.........they will never be worth what they are asking for them now to me
I’m like you on this, was buying them “used” for $39 , buy 10 at a time and get free shipping, maybe Trump can bring back those days, open up , get box of 20rds for $1.98 again !!!!
 

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Yep, I have over a dozen. Chinese, Russian, Yugo, Romanian, Albanian... Didn't pay over $100.00 for any of them. Had lots of fun on the range back when 7.62 x 39 was also dirt cheap. Current pricing seems insane, but that's supply and demand for you.

the world is a bit topsy turvy now that a cheap AR is less expensive than an SKS or a Mini 14.
 

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It's kinda of puzzling to me that the SKS is one of the best made reliable intermediate cartridge rifles available yet it's the only one who is frowned upon for pricing going up on them. M1 Garands were 70.00-80.00, M11/BM59 were 115.00, M1 Carbines were 60.00 and so on and so forth. Yet the SKS is crapped on.
 


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