Sourcing SKS D stock
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Go to the thread I started a little while ago about the SKS-D. There was one member who posted that he has a SKS-D stock for sale.
https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/for...-SKS-D-weighing-my-options-for-a-stock-choice
Expect to pay a premium. Most SKS-D I have seen lately do not have the original stock, all kind of stocks, Dragunov, Russian wood stocks, ATI stocks.
At least you got it for a good price and if it was in a Dragunov stock, it was obvious. The ones pictured with a non SKS-D wood stock are kind of a scam without mentioned it.
the stock does not matter..... an SKS D is still an SKS D regardless of the stock. If it has the importer modified trigger pack with the addition of a welded on ak style mag release, it's a D.
There isn't any real "premium" to be paid or a true D model unless it is new in the box and those have come up from time to time.
I personally never liked the SKS D stock and found it too small and thin for my liking. The wood quality was also very very low and easily show wear after regular use.
My favorite norico sks stock was the MC5D stocks with a bit more beef to them and the monte carlo style comb and rubber buttpad made for a nicely shouldering stock.
In my personal view, and it's just mine, the value of the D was increasing slowly since the 90's and were usually seen in the EE priced around the same as a retail priced Yugo.... so 650 to 750 not counting accessories. The price stayed stable during the 858 years but then after those got banned and the new Type 81 rifles arrived we have seen the prices of the SKS-D rise sharply and people are quietly paying those premiums as those rifles appear and disappear from the EE...... as I have found out.... often in minutes of the add appearing LOL
From what I have gleaned from this red rifle forum, it's possible to adapt most wooden sks stocks to the SKS-D if you are at all handy with simple hand tools like measuring devices, rasps and files. It would also not be that difficult to fabricate the steel magazine liner..... I found that quite easy.
There isn't any real "premium" to be paid or a true D model unless it is new in the box and those have come up from time to time.
I personally never liked the SKS D stock and found it too small and thin for my liking. The wood quality was also very very low and easily show wear after regular use.
My favorite norico sks stock was the MC5D stocks with a bit more beef to them and the monte carlo style comb and rubber buttpad made for a nicely shouldering stock.
In my personal view, and it's just mine, the value of the D was increasing slowly since the 90's and were usually seen in the EE priced around the same as a retail priced Yugo.... so 650 to 750 not counting accessories. The price stayed stable during the 858 years but then after those got banned and the new Type 81 rifles arrived we have seen the prices of the SKS-D rise sharply and people are quietly paying those premiums as those rifles appear and disappear from the EE...... as I have found out.... often in minutes of the add appearing LOL
From what I have gleaned from this red rifle forum, it's possible to adapt most wooden sks stocks to the SKS-D if you are at all handy with simple hand tools like measuring devices, rasps and files. It would also not be that difficult to fabricate the steel magazine liner..... I found that quite easy.
yup, your views are from a non-collector but i do collect (or should i say re-collect) and the original stocks does matter if it didnt matter then owners would be selling the stocks off cheap, where???
i cant be the only one collecting cos you yourself said the price rose sharply (more rapid than the standard).
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I got it for $450 with 2 mags was hard to say no too, I just want the regular stock lol, couple years back I got one for free from a gunshop in Edmonton I just had to pay the shipping I did reach out to them and asked if they still had some but sadly no haha
I don't think "collecting" has much to do with the price of the D models.
Despite the negative reports on this forum from a small number of people, there are many who own the D and keep them because they are a reliable, easy to clean, cheap to feed magazine fed rifle and back when we could have 30 round mags.... that meant something LOL Now with the future uncertain on so many levels I think many who hold a D see it as being on the same level as a Type 81 and seeing those prices north of 1200...... the sks-d what few are out there have risen in price more for that reason that other drivers such as collecting.
A recent sks-d on here sold for 1250 without it;s original stock and at the same time a new in the grease SKS D, unfired was listed at 1500 I believe it was. Will a "collector" pay the 1500? I dunno but the 1250 model sold in mere minutes. Prbbably sold to someone looking for a shooter in these uncertain timesthat can be put away for a rainy day.
With these bans afoot...... who buys semi autos for collectable value????
Despite the negative reports on this forum from a small number of people, there are many who own the D and keep them because they are a reliable, easy to clean, cheap to feed magazine fed rifle and back when we could have 30 round mags.... that meant something LOL Now with the future uncertain on so many levels I think many who hold a D see it as being on the same level as a Type 81 and seeing those prices north of 1200...... the sks-d what few are out there have risen in price more for that reason that other drivers such as collecting.
A recent sks-d on here sold for 1250 without it;s original stock and at the same time a new in the grease SKS D, unfired was listed at 1500 I believe it was. Will a "collector" pay the 1500? I dunno but the 1250 model sold in mere minutes. Prbbably sold to someone looking for a shooter in these uncertain timesthat can be put away for a rainy day.
With these bans afoot...... who buys semi autos for collectable value????
It is not easy to make a D magwell which ensure proper feeding of the magazines:
https://imgur.com/a/LZzE6Eu
https://imgur.com/a/LZzE6Eu
Actually the magazine well was easy to reproduce but I have a steel fabrication back ground so forming metals and some welding skills are in my tool box along with a mastercraft flux core core welder..... Not long ago after reading here in the red rifle forum that guys have adapted other sks wood stocks to the D model, a friend asked me to help him fit a stock for a D. I offered a fiberglass version but he wanted the wood. I made the jig for bending the steel used for the liner out of steel and made it large enough to replicate an oversize magazine. The liner was also made oversized so once bent the correct angle of the liner could then be cut out of the bent piece of sheet. The bending was achieved by heating the metal to cherry and then hammer forming it to the jig which was very easy to accomplish. C-clamps were used to hold the formed metal while it cooled on the jig. A hand grinder with cut off wheel was used to rough cut the liner shape. A dremel was used to final shape and contour while comparing to a factory liner. Then the two strips that brace the trigger area were cut, detailed, drilled for plug welding and then ... plug welded to the liner. That part was kinda tricky and in hindsight and if I ever made another one, I would plug weld those pieces before I bent the metal. All the holes needed where layed out and drilled before bending as that would have been a pain to get correct once the metal was bent and formed.
anyhow, I'm sidetracking the thread a little and i apologize but just sharing the fact that finding a D stock might be harder and more expensive than creating one from an existing SKS wood stock.
anyhow, I'm sidetracking the thread a little and i apologize but just sharing the fact that finding a D stock might be harder and more expensive than creating one from an existing SKS wood stock.
bending, cutting, heating, forming, grinding, welding and dremelling. like scianna54 said it aint easy but making one from standard wood stock, you still have to fill duckbill part. if im gonna fork out $1250 i wouldnt want that.
I hear you, as you are a self declared collector, I can understand your point of view.
The rifle I made that stock liner for was one my friend purchased long ago from me for I think 300 bucks after Allen Lever had passed away and those rifles were all long sold out in the retail market. He had it in a butler creek folder all these years and wanted a wood stock he could use for it. I obliged of course.
Sad side to the story...... his wife found out he had an sks and made him sell it and now I am a bad guy and they don't want me around because I said that she was being ignorant about so called assault style weapons. Refusing to believe that the sks was not part of the ban. I should have said purposefully or willfully uneducated but the english language pretty much sums that up in one word..... ignorant LOL
some people.
Best of luck. This fellow seems to be selling something similar, but I've heard stories about him...
https://www.luckyshotwoodstocks.com/product-page/sks-m-sportster-or-d-original-design-stock
it's not so difficult to just adapt a chinese or russian stock to fit. It's really quite simple to do, the metal liner isn't essential.
my brother contacted lucky shot within the last couple or few months and was told NO Canadian sales , they don't ship to Canada
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You can still import them via one of the Canadian importers. It's going to cost you more though.
