Noticed on EE a flood of SKS last weeks.
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I get notifications all the time looking for laborer's to do FIFO work. If someone wants to live remote, they better be financially prepared or do what it takes to find work. There is no good excuse to be on welfare if you're able bodied.
That's fine, if you don't have a family, but priorities change when kids are involved.
Lots of decent working folks I've come across over the past decade, no education, for all sorts of legitimate reasons, work at what they can get, until there are too many of them and work isn't available, or it just doesn't pay enough to pay rent and feed/support a family at the same time.
When you're single, it's reasonably easy to share rent with another or several others, and still have enough money to exist on a reasonably happy level.
It can be done with a family, but it's often beyond the abilities of many to do it successfully.
So, they live in tents, old battered campers, abandoned buildings, etc.
Sometimes, especially in today's society, where good folks are brought in from off shore to take up jobs people once shunned are now clambering for.
Jobs that paid reasonably well, such as till clerks at big box stores, are now mostly gone, and self check outs rule.
Even the self check outs are going to be obsolete, in the near future when you pick up an item, put it in the cart/basket and it's immediately deducted from a credit card or debit card. You will be required to bring your own carry bags of course or carry it in hand. There won't be any greeters, sales clerks, or even floor walkers. Filling shelves with products or produce will all be done with a machine, that only requires a bit of maintenance, much of which it will be able to do itself.
Lots of decent working folks I've come across over the past decade, no education, for all sorts of legitimate reasons, work at what they can get, until there are too many of them and work isn't available, or it just doesn't pay enough to pay rent and feed/support a family at the same time.
When you're single, it's reasonably easy to share rent with another or several others, and still have enough money to exist on a reasonably happy level.
It can be done with a family, but it's often beyond the abilities of many to do it successfully.
So, they live in tents, old battered campers, abandoned buildings, etc.
Sometimes, especially in today's society, where good folks are brought in from off shore to take up jobs people once shunned are now clambering for.
Jobs that paid reasonably well, such as till clerks at big box stores, are now mostly gone, and self check outs rule.
Even the self check outs are going to be obsolete, in the near future when you pick up an item, put it in the cart/basket and it's immediately deducted from a credit card or debit card. You will be required to bring your own carry bags of course or carry it in hand. There won't be any greeters, sales clerks, or even floor walkers. Filling shelves with products or produce will all be done with a machine, that only requires a bit of maintenance, much of which it will be able to do itself.
That would be on an individual basis.
It doesn't take very many folks selling off to make it look like a flood.
Much of Canada's population is aging, and getting closer to their end of days, where they want to use the firearms they have, and none of their offspring want them.
I've seen this before during several slumps as aging folks get ready for their last moments.
Often, it's widows or widowers selling off the firearms to clean up an estate.
When these swings occur, it's usually when the Liberals and antis introduce negative legislation.
They seem to have some sort of study or graph to indicate the patterns.
A dealer on here had 3 Russian sks’s listed in their used section yesterday for $599. Someone snatched them up over night but I thought that was a pretty good price for the condition considering the going rate is 800-1000 these days.
I was looking on gp last week and found probably a dozen mosins in the $550 range. The ones that the dealers still have in stock probably aren’t selling at $800+
Everything is worth what someone will pay for it. It does seem that the demand for surplus rifles has fallen off, maybe due to the fact that there is no more surplus ammo
I was looking on gp last week and found probably a dozen mosins in the $550 range. The ones that the dealers still have in stock probably aren’t selling at $800+
Everything is worth what someone will pay for it. It does seem that the demand for surplus rifles has fallen off, maybe due to the fact that there is no more surplus ammo
I’m tempted to start selling surplus ammo at 45 cents and replace it with non corrosive norinco for 58 cents
Well....they are worth about $100. If you can get $500+.......sell it!
They are a crappy gun from a quality engineering standpoint. But Rathjen hates them so.......well..... I guess it shows just how stupid she is.
$100 gun? Yeah, an SKS is worth the same as a beat up single shot 22lr. Totally.
If the SKS didn't exist in Canada, and they started being imported today they'd easily sell for what they're priced at now and nobody would think twice. What else do you have for a semi auto centerfire under $1000? Hell there isn't much under $2000 these days - the Makasi and Carmel are both closing in on $2500. The ONLY reason people #### on the SKS is the history of how cheap they used to be.
And the accuracy and the awful trigger and the crude sights and....I mean I'd rather one than a cope junk 180 but dang.
But thats just me. They're a heck of a solid semi auto service rifle and thats why Rathjen hates them. Only real one left on the market IMO
But thats just me. They're a heck of a solid semi auto service rifle and thats why Rathjen hates them. Only real one left on the market IMO
Try the Lever Arms investment pack of 5 sksds for $499 years ago.
Ironically, that was an investment.
What would 5 sksds sell for today?
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You obviously have never owned nor handled an AK ..n
no… fudds don’t buy SKS’s..
This ^ certainly...although I think that if a few crates of SKS hit our shores now, and we didn't have a history of buying them dirt cheap...you know, if there really were only 14 in Canada
...then they'd likely be priced at about twice what the current going rate is for them...and that they'd sell out very quickly.And in that imaginary Canada, nobody would know or suspect or believe that these strange new rifles called SKS were as stone-axe reliable and durable as we now know they are. They'd be an unknown quantity, just like all these goofy new Carmels and Makasis and Alcors and all the other weird-ass rifles that nobody ever heard of last year, but which everybody is paying exhorbitant prices for because they have no other choice.
I'm not a huge SKS fan...but it's impossible not to admire them for what they are. They're bulletproof, last forever, are still fairly cheap to shoot (compared to most other rifles in most other chamberings) and still relatively cheap to buy. People who sit around whining about how cheap they once were...will be whining even more next year, or ten years down the road, when they still haven't bought one because then they will be even more expensive...if they're available at all.
You'll do well at 45cpr. Most guys are selling closer to 60cpr on gun post.
Edit: rather, they're "asking" closer to 60cpr. I doubt they're selling at that price when you can buy norinco at the same price as you said.
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It JUST P*sses me right OFF TO NO END that the SKS is still not a prohibited when my Beloved Ruger Ranch 223 is Done fore 
WTF 
Fuking retarded goberment 
WTF Fuking retarded goberment
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