What the #### kind of refurb SKS is this?

These are the new Standard SKS that we all have been complaining about. What is being called "BBQ" paint on the barrel and reciever is actually
a very tough powder coat. There may be cheaper paint on some of the parts like the magazine and gas tube. The "Made in Russia" grows on you.:)
 
Yup. This is the more common import now.

And why I personally search out the previous imports from the Ukraine and Poland if I'm looking to buy an sks. Much nicer quality, no export markings, and haven't yet gone up in price to reflect the base line imports now coming out of Russia.

Funny how these imports sell for the same price the nicer Ukraine and Poland guns sold for a year or two ago. That laser etching is terrible.
 
VuDu666 said:
ОП-СКС. Oхотничье-Промысловый СКС means milsurp SKS which was reclassified as hunting carbine according to Russian regulations. Standard modern refurb done by Molot with new QC markings from government agency proving that firearm is good to be fired after refurb. The only way people back home can own milsurp if it's reclassified as "hunting firearm". All new surplus refurbs are reclassified as hunting "carbine" now and have those markings. AKM, RPK, PPSh, K98, SVT, Mosin, Maxim MG etc. It's just a loop hope used to sell milsurp to regular people.
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Hunting with a Maxim? Wow! I'm up for that. :)
(My avatar may have tipped you off..)
 
Yeah, Russia cannot export milsurp firearms any more - so I've been told. So Molot is refurbing SKS's and exporting them as 'New' hunting rifles. So that is a Molot export. Usually they are cleaned up pretty nice, but are not historically correct.
 
Yea, and sadly we have come into a bunch of non refurb rifles and they are relatively cheap but the markings do drop their worth a bit in the realm of collectors! If you have a refurb, then the marks really don't matter much as these are less desirable for collectors. The marks on the SKS are not that bad as most of it is covered by the wood, hopefully, when the SVT start coming again, they will be tastefully done and hidden! As we said earlier, the TT33 is hideous and will not command much money, I would be surprised if they went for more than $100 a copy, good parts guns!
 
The more I read about the SKS...the less I feel I know. I was going to post some photos of my (new to me) 1954 Russian...but I'm afraid to find out I what I have! lol Worse yet...nobody is offering me a Yugo for $250. :)
 
I've seen the same markings on a $210 clean laminate refurb, the barrel, trigger group and magazine looked brand new. Who cares if it's not a numbers matching pristine never fired piece. it's $210 freakin dollars.
 
That's why you don't want to pay too much for any SKS, they are what they are, shoot them, wear them out and buy another one! However paying too much is a personal thing, my limit is $200 for a Russian and less for Chinese! Some folks will pay $300 maybe more, but to me it seems when you get to those prices there are other choices.
 
I read in another thread a while ago that the nice sks's we had been getting were coming mostly from Ukraine, they had for the most part been distributed there back when it was still part of USSR and put into storage for when the "west" invaded. That's why they were typically in very good shape, nice blueing, some unrefurbished.

Once the trouble between Ukraine and Russia started, they halted exports of military surplus because they were focusing on the situation they are still dealing with. When this happened, people here still wanted more sks's, so Russia was the next place importers went looking, but their stocks had been used a lot more, and had a more intensive refurbishment process because of it, so the average quality was much lower than the ones we were used to seeing, with bbq paint covering instead of nice blueing, mismatched parts, and that ugly export marking under the gas tube.
 
bobdbldr said:
That's why you don't want to pay too much for any SKS, they are what they are, shoot them, wear them out and buy another one! However paying too much is a personal thing, my limit is $200 for a Russian and less for Chinese! Some folks will pay $300 maybe more, but to me it seems when you get to those prices there are other choices.
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Have you handled a good Chinese SKS? My Factory 256 is a better shooter with on-par metal work to my '53 Izzy. The stock is the only thing that leaves something to be desired.
 
Syphen said:
Have you handled a good Chinese SKS? My Factory 256 is a better shooter with on-par metal work to my '53 Izzy. The stock is the only thing that leaves something to be desired.
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Not discounting the Asian version, when they were here they were a good bit cheaper than Russian so when they come back( unless Justin takes it all from us) they will likely be cheaper again! Word is the Russians will permitted to export again soon!
 
Russia was one of the countries that refused the UN Arms Trades Treaty like Canada. This is Russia's own thing.

Here is all the countries that signed, didn't sign, and countries that signed but aren't actually going to follow through to make it law.

https ://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_Trade_Treaty
 
Thanks for posting that video! Interesting little machine gun (I had thought TooTall's avatar was just a caricature) The gun swivels easy
but the elevating mechanism seems kind of slow? Perhaps that is a good thing for covering certain trench line type targets?
 
I had a couple really nice blued sks that didnt have this marking but my M38 mosin wears it under the handguard.
Doesnt bother me too much. As for the bbq paint sks it does nothing for rust. My brother has one that the rust is bubbling up
through the paint on the receiver. I would be very warry of them.
 
I've shot an sks painted like that before and it shot fine . the paint does'nt turn me on in the least. and it had the same markings as the one you posted.
 
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