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Posted: 7/29/2019 3:04:13 PM EDT
[#1]
$299 isn't a bad price nowadays. It's roughly $175 in 1994 dollars which is the time frame I picked my SKS's and the rifles were being imported in plentiful supply.
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Posted: 7/29/2019 3:05:45 PM EDT
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Same. My SKS was a Christmas gift when I was a kid. I think dad paid $120. Also, OP misspelled "Alet" Quote HistoryQuoted:
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$300 bucks for a SKS Its crazy that I remember the 'old days' and Im only Also, OP misspelled "Alet" |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 3:13:31 PM EDT
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That makes my Russian sks worth 1000.00... I only paid 89.99 for it new |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 3:46:39 PM EDT
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Hmmm, $300 on an AR or an SKS...this is a tough choice  |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 4:55:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This is almost exactly what happened to a buddy of mine, but with a surplus Beretta. Like I said, I have a couple of friends who swear by them but I did not have good luck. |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 4:58:10 PM EDT
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Mil-surp rifles will only go up in value.
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Posted: 7/29/2019 5:02:52 PM EDT
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You guys get ripped the Fuck off on those things |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 5:03:15 PM EDT
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Am I in before the plethora of people who say they're only worth $100? That said I thought $400.00 plus shipping, tax, and transfer was going to be a hard sell. They charge tax.....$15 to Virginia. Shipping....$29.00 to Virginia. Then your transfer cost which in my case would be $25.00. So you are looking at $69.00 +/- on top of the $299.00. 
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Posted: 7/29/2019 5:22:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Too late....Lots of peeps still suffering from "SKS Syndrome". That said I thought $400.00 plus shipping, tax, and transfer was going to be a hard sell. They charge tax.....$15 to Virginia. Shipping....$29.00 to Virginia. Then your transfer cost which in my case would be $25.00. So you are looking at $69.00 +/- on top of the $299.00. 299.99 SKS 20 Hand pick 30.08 Shipping 24.80 Tax Not to bad IMO. And I could have skipped the 20 hand pick, but hell with it. So around 358 skipping the hand pick option. I have wanted one and I can accept paying this price for one. Ill clean it up, shoot it a few times and stash it in my safe. Surplus is bound to increase as time goes on and surplus runs dry. I did already get an email with tracking that my order has already shipped. I had ordered right before making this topic about them being 299. Guessing it will be here by Thursday(?)/Friday. So maybe I got a gem out of the lot.... |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 5:30:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Isn’t a PSA ar15 the same price? |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 5:33:05 PM EDT
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Classic tends to be "optimistic" on their grading. I bought a Yugo SKS from them last year that just last week I finally got all the cosmoline out of. I think it was listed as "very good", I'd probably rate it as good. The bore is in super shape at least. $300 is probably fair for the game of roulette you're going to play on these Chinese ones. I don't know how they can honestly do handpick for condition when they don't make ANY attempt at removing the cosmoline. From the pictures, those things are fucking drenched in brown goop that will hide stock condition, rust, and everything else. I'm not really into Chinese guns, and cleaning the cosmo out of the Yugo was a chore I don't want to repeat. Now if someone would turn up a cache of Russian guns, then we'd be talking. At least we're getting into the 100 degrees days in Texas, so it would be pretty easy to sweat another one in the sun. 
ETA - It also seems like Sweaty Ben is taking more a backseat in their social media. Clint seems like a cool guy, and is a huge upgrade when it comes to marketing for them. Classic? Meh. Roll the dice. |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 5:35:28 PM EDT
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Pd. $99 in ‘91
Was considered cheap then Lots of fun Thought I’d get it out and take it to my range after yrs of being in the back of the safe What a heavy, clunker of a turd I quickly set it back in the safe and retrieved the AR |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 5:37:07 PM EDT
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Mine came out of that batch and I'm not disappointed. The stock had seen better days, but no rust and numbers matching. Took it to the range and it shoots well.
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Posted: 7/29/2019 5:38:34 PM EDT
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I was tempted when I saw that email, especially considering today's prices, but I already have one and wouldn't have any place to put another one
And besides that, I just spent a crapload of money on my house and should probably hold off of guns for a while. |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 6:32:22 PM EDT
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Yeah I bought a Russian SKS around 1995 for $100. It was still in the creosote and I really like that little thing. It shoots straight and I have never had it jam in all those years. |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 6:40:51 PM EDT
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Had it been stored in a chimney previously? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Yeah I bought a Russian SKS around 1995 for $100. It was still in the creosote and I really like that little thing. It shoots straight and I have never had it jam in all those years.  
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Posted: 7/29/2019 6:57:46 PM EDT
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Ben"d over. |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 7:02:23 PM EDT
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Lol what a deal
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Posted: 7/29/2019 7:23:37 PM EDT
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PSA email today had a complete AR upper for 180, with b/c/ch, and a complete lower for 100.
So a new AR for $280 or a used SKS for 3.... hmmm |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 7:31:16 PM EDT
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Am I in before the plethora of people who say they're only worth $100? That's the great thing about "worth." It's entirely dependent on the situation. |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 8:07:47 PM EDT
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Mine came out to 378.87 shipped to my door (C&R). 299.99 SKS 20 Hand pick 30.08 Shipping 24.80 Tax Not to bad IMO. And I could have skipped the 20 hand pick, but hell with it. So around 358 skipping the hand pick option. I have wanted one and I can accept paying this price for one. Ill clean it up, shoot it a few times and stash it in my safe. Surplus is bound to increase as time goes on and surplus runs dry. I did already get an email with tracking that my order has already shipped. I had ordered right before making this topic about them being 299. Guessing it will be here by Thursday(?)/Friday. So maybe I got a gem out of the lot.... Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: Too late....Lots of peeps still suffering from "SKS Syndrome". That said I thought $400.00 plus shipping, tax, and transfer was going to be a hard sell. They charge tax.....$15 to Virginia. Shipping....$29.00 to Virginia. Then your transfer cost which in my case would be $25.00. So you are looking at $69.00 +/- on top of the $299.00. 299.99 SKS 20 Hand pick 30.08 Shipping 24.80 Tax Not to bad IMO. And I could have skipped the 20 hand pick, but hell with it. So around 358 skipping the hand pick option. I have wanted one and I can accept paying this price for one. Ill clean it up, shoot it a few times and stash it in my safe. Surplus is bound to increase as time goes on and surplus runs dry. I did already get an email with tracking that my order has already shipped. I had ordered right before making this topic about them being 299. Guessing it will be here by Thursday(?)/Friday. So maybe I got a gem out of the lot.... |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 9:25:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI would pay $$$ for one of those that worked on cosmoline
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Posted: 8/6/2019 9:51:11 AM EDT
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OP Updated 08/06
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Posted: 8/6/2019 10:35:27 AM EDT
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A couple years ago the local city did a buy back, no questions asked... They had to do it as a private transfer because MO State law says they can't use tax dollars to do buybacks without a vote so they got the PBA to donate the money and take the guns, then give them to the city for destruction (Well, the City has to offer them to an FFL first I think... then whatever the FFL doesn't want gets destroyed, i think that's how it's written).
I took in some old, busted shit worth at best, $50/ea and got $150/ea for them, walked out and there was a guy in the line outside with an SKS, I asked him if he was from MO, he says yes, I offered him $150, he handed it to me, I went home with my new (to me)SKS. The cops in the parking lot looked pissed (I might have also pointed out to the Mayor that they were breaking Fed law due to buying handguns from people across State lines when some of the people selling were talking about being from Illinois, shockingly none of the cops cared but that might explain their irritation with me). I know, CSB. |
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Posted: 8/6/2019 10:47:27 AM EDT
[#25]
I see better SKS rifles in pawn shops every week for that price....And no cosmoline.
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Posted: 8/6/2019 10:48:17 AM EDT
[#26]
I got alot like that. Boil water and start cleaning.
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Posted: 8/6/2019 10:53:44 AM EDT
[#27]
luckily for you, it's summertime.
put that bad boy out in the sun for a few hours, rotate, rinse, repeat. |
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Posted: 8/6/2019 10:57:40 AM EDT
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When I purchased my Yugo dealer was giving away a free can of Wonder Lube with them; he said, you’ll need it, lol.
I did
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Posted: 8/6/2019 10:58:17 AM EDT
[#29]
"Holy mother of cosmoline!!"
Good one OP!!! 
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Posted: 8/6/2019 10:58:37 AM EDT
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Junk rifles...honestly, why people love old shit is beyond me. Have at it. Some guys are more particular, Gotta like this/that/the other for the most part. |
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Posted: 8/6/2019 10:58:38 AM EDT
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Junk rifles...honestly, why people love old shit is beyond me. Have at it. |
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Posted: 8/6/2019 10:58:55 AM EDT
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Junk rifles...honestly, why people love old shit is beyond me. Have at it. 
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Posted: 8/6/2019 10:59:41 AM EDT
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If you have an attic, take a coat hanger and hang the SKS over a large pan from the rafters. The summer heat will melt the cosmoline into the pan below.
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Posted: 8/6/2019 11:00:03 AM EDT
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No special solvent needed. Just a pan of diesel.
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Posted: 8/6/2019 11:00:23 AM EDT
[#35]
Lots of mil surplus guns had that goop. I hate that shit when it’s soaked into the wood.
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Posted: 8/6/2019 11:01:03 AM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I picked up a very nice Russian and Yugo last year for $425 and $400 respectively. You can find them, just have to be patient. I think $300 for these, considering transfer fee and shipping will bring them near $400 is still too much. You can find Chinese SKS in better condition for that price in most any pawn or gun shop around here. I think I did ok considering. https://i.imgur.com/9OcWeX4.jpg |
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Posted: 8/6/2019 11:01:11 AM EDT
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These things didn’t get to $400+ overnight. I can’t believe there are still people that show up in SKS threads going “OMG THESE ARE THAT MUCH NOW? MINE WAS $79 back in 1997 HURRRRR” SKS’s have been several hundred dollars for at least 10 years now. Chicom SKS's are going for $229.99 up in Canada, which is like what $75 US?
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Posted: 8/6/2019 11:02:00 AM EDT
[#38]
Look forward to seeing that SKS cleaned up. Mine is on the way.
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Posted: 8/6/2019 11:11:34 AM EDT
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No special solvent needed. Just a pan of diesel. |
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Posted: 8/6/2019 3:33:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This. Any gas, kerosene or thin petroleum product will work, too. Just break it down a bit and stick it in tub with it. It will leech out of the stock for a while, though, but putting it in the hot sun with will help with that some. Just make sure you lecture the guy youre buying the gas from about how you used to buy gas for a dime a gallon, and how he's ripping you off, if you want the complete SKS experience.  "It's hot as balls here right now. I am going to hang it in the rafters over the garage with a drip pan. I'll let free heat start the work for me. |
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Posted: 8/6/2019 3:41:42 PM EDT
[#41]
Way too much work.
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Posted: 8/6/2019 3:43:08 PM EDT
[#42]
That's not bad.
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Posted: 8/6/2019 3:52:42 PM EDT
[#43]
Oof.
That’s rough looking compared to the ones I’d regularly sell for $199 back when I worked at the gun store. |
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Posted: 8/6/2019 3:54:11 PM EDT
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Everyone should own an SKS. They are good, solid, rifles. Prices are getting a little high though.
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Posted: 8/6/2019 4:36:42 PM EDT
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$300 bucks for a SKS Its crazy that I remember the 'old days' and Im only 29 It wasn’t an amazing gun, but it’s definitely reinforced this one principle: never sell a gun |
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Posted: 8/6/2019 4:38:46 PM EDT
[#46]
Special price $349 now!!
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Posted: 8/6/2019 4:44:54 PM EDT
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Strip out the action and throw the parts in a coffee can filled with some gasoline. Soak for 30 minutes, swish the gas around once or twice, pull out mostly cleaned parts. Use compressed air to off the stuff in the holes or crevices.
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Posted: 8/6/2019 4:48:09 PM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember when they sold these things by the crate for $99 / each. I wish dad would've bought a hundred of them |
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Posted: 8/6/2019 5:13:56 PM EDT
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Special price $349 now!! |
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Posted: 8/6/2019 5:39:11 PM EDT
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Regardless of the price, the pic in the op brought back instant olfactory and tactile memories from my first few that I’d purchased back in the 90’s.
I think I’ll order a can and relive yesteryear! |
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