Did the 80,000 milsurps Marstar bought in Africa ever partially make it to Canada?

I just noticed the update at the bottom of the first post stating that some of these rifles are the chinese military stock they are now selling cheap.

Have these turned out to be a good shipment? Worth picking up a couple?

Does anyone happen to know which African country these ended up coming from?

I'd love to know the history behind where they might have visited before ending up in my collection if I were to buy a couple.
 
I haven't heard anything about the African SKSs in a long time. If you do a search, you will find tons of threads on the Chinese SKSs from Marstar, about how people love them for the most part.
 
.30/06 FTW said:
I haven't heard anything about the African SKSs in a long time. If you do a search, you will find tons of threads on the Chinese SKSs from Marstar, about how people love them for the most part.
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Were these above mentioned Chinese SKS's not also from the same african source? Since they are 50's and 60's makes.
 
avroe said:
Were these above mentioned Chinese SKS's not also from the same african source? Since they are 50's and 60's makes.
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No, these were original military manufacture from China. Basically they were made and then stored, never issued, never used. The first time anybody even touched them since they had been put in storage was when the mags were pinned. If you would have read the 1st page of the thread you linked to, you would have seen that the African SKSs were a completely separate project. 70000 were the African ones, 10000 were the Chinese.
 
Considering that everyone in South Africa is now limited to one rifle, one shotgun and one pistol per person, you'd think there would be a lot more and better stuff to bring in than SKSs!

From what I've read it's a deactivation fest over there these days, that and container loads leaving for Europe full of everthing that ever fired a shot in Africa.
 
Woodbeef said:
Last thing John posted about the ones from the Dark Continent,is that he has not decided the disposition of them yet. Which to me means he's looking to sell them all at once.
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If they are all SKS's, I guess its fair to say he might just be sitting on the load for now until SKS prices return to above $200 levels.

From an economics point of view, he might be better off just sitting on these for another 5-10 years if he doesn't overly need the capital to be liquid again.
 
RRCo. said:
From what I've read it's a deactivation fest over there these days, that and container loads leaving for Europe full of everthing that ever fired a shot in Africa.
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I'd love to get my pick of some of what's being shipped back.
 
I could really go for a s**tty $100 sks to put in my spare tapco stock. I just hate using it to replace the beautiful laminate stock on my russian sks
 
Am I the only naive one hoping the SKS's might be a of a rarer breed, and might command a premium price vs the $189 russians and chinese currently on the market?

I'd be fine paying $300-$550 for an SKS if it was something a little different than those on the market today.
 
jvdb91 said:
I could really go for a s**tty $100 sks to put in my spare tapco stock. I just hate using it to replace the beautiful laminate stock on my russian sks
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THIS IS WHAT I WANT

I just want a really ####ty SKS I can tapcofuk so I can keep my sweet russian laminate all pretty.
 
avroe said:
Am I the only naive one hoping the SKS's might be a of a rarer breed, and might command a premium price vs the $189 russians and chinese currently on the market?

I'd be fine paying $300-$550 for an SKS if it was something a little different than those on the market today.
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You want to pay *more* for rifles?

I don't.
 
RRCo;

"container loads leaving for Europe full of everthing that ever fired a shot in Africa."

You sir, are very close to what is going on

John
 
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