SKS, should I buy it?

[DixieReb]

I bought my first SKS probably 30 years ago for $69, since then I’ve owned two others and never spent more than $150 for one. I no longer own one but saw a very clean Norinco SKS with sling and bayonet this evening at a gun shop for $349, should I go back and get it? Everything I’m seeing priced on the internet is. $700+, I don’t need it but if it’s an investment I’m thinking about going back to get it. How about some feedback from ya’ll....

 

[Duckyou]

$350 - I would say yes. And - I don’t like the sks...

 

[ls1_guru]

What gunshop is that because props to them for not getting into the norm of over-pricing shit...that is a fair price even when things were normal.

 

[USAF Sarge]

That's a no brainer, anytime you can get a gun below the normal price, you jump on it and run like hell.

Normal everyday M91/30 Mosin Nagants are commanding $700.00 plus, so a SKS isn't going to go for less......

 

[ls1_guru]

Yea that one is still nuts to see them sell for that... considering I've got a few for free over the years.

 

[FrommerStop]

That's a no brainer, anytime you can get a gun below the normal price, you jump on it and run like hell.

Normal everyday M91/30 Mosin Nagants are commanding $700.00 plus, so a SKS isn't going to go for less......

Who in their right mind would pay that.

I wonder what I can get for the bayonet alone lol. Perhaps $199.

 

[ls1_guru]

It's on gunbroker all day for that, trust me I said the same thing but been watching.. some of it is fckn nuts...

 

[DixieReb]

Ok, thanks for the replies. Just called gun shop owner and told him I’d come get it tomorrow evening, he said it was mine. Just hate to spend that knowing I used to buy them so cheap. But looks like an investment. Are SKS’s no longer imported? Just wondering why prices have sky rocketed.

 

[ls1_guru]

I'll be as polite as I can with saying you must live under a rock lol

 

[ls1_guru]

Prices have skyrocket because the people in general are panicking for the impending gun confiscation, the poor people are going to walmart and academy and other gun stores buying what they can and flipping it for X amount of cost to make money taking advantage of the situation selling it to the non prepared, democrats stole the election and we are on the verge of socialism or Civil War, maybe both.

But I did save some money switching my car insurance to Geico.

 

[DixieReb]

I don’t live under a rock and have never been an SKS fan, tried deer hunting with the first one I bought many years ago and wasn’t impressed at all. Other than plinking with them when ammo was so plentiful and reasonable I don’t see the big fanfare.

 

[ls1_guru]

Yea I'm not an SKS fan, more into the AKM by design.

 

[DixieReb]

Ammo is still plentiful with this gun dealer is only reason I started the topic about possibly buying it. Probably flip it or trade up for something better...

 

[DixieReb]

Got a Ruger mini 30 in the 7.62x39 that I like a whole lot better, paid $200 for it this past summer.

 

[USAF Sarge]

Who in their right mind would pay that.

I wonder what I can get for the bayonet alone lol. Perhaps $199.

Here's some recent hammer prices for M91/30s on GB.

M91/30's sold on GB:

1933 Izhevsk $800.00
1935 Tula $755.00
1942 Izhevsk $695.00
1943 Izhevsk $660.00

M91/30 bayonets are north of $50.00 and I see them listed at just under $100.00. Lockring bayonets for the M91 are $150.00 and higher right now.

 

[DixieReb]

I had a 91/30 I bought for $25 and an m44 for $69.95, both were all matching numbers, I scoped the m44 and killed several deer with it. No longer own either one. Never thought they would be worth something

 

[ls1_guru]

Well that was any of us that had old military rifles for cheap and didn't think we would be in the times we are now.

 

[DixieReb]

Talking about cheap military guns, I knew an old gentleman that had over 60 Enfield and Springfield rifles from the WBTS, and other various rifles and muskets from that period. He told me he used to buy them in the 1920’s and 30’’s for as little as $20-25 which wasn’t cheap at the time when you think about the depression. He had one Whitworth rifle with the long brass scope on it, no telling what it would be worth today, the old man is deceased now and his son struggled with alcoholism and no telling what his son sold them for or has done with them.

 

[FrommerStop]

Ok, thanks for the replies. Just called gun shop owner and told him I’d come get it tomorrow evening, he said it was mine. Just hate to spend that knowing I used to buy them so cheap. But looks like an investment. Are SKS’s no longer imported? Just wondering why prices have sky rocketed.

look it over carefully and try and get some sort of guarantee. Corrosion from not being cleaned after corrosive ammo use is the most common. If it is stock, it is likely ok. Check the disconnector function. That is a very decent price.

 

[ls1_guru]

Seen quite a bit of them that were chrome lined barrels so I wouldn't worry about corrosive ammo in that case.

Disconnector is a good point, I've fired a few that spit it all out in a 10rnd burst haha hang onto it and send it.