Thanks for the mint SKS! w/Pics

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Just gorgeous SKS. WOW. Except for needing a cosmo cleanup (yuck) it is just a great specimen (haven't cleaned it yet). The bayo looks brand new! I could butter my toast with it. If all of Wanstalls sks's look like this, it's a great deal at $199! :rockOn:

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Far, far better than I thought it would be... I handpicked my last one, but this has it beat, hands down. Have to read some threads on the cosmo cleaning, as I'm a beginner at that stuff... Imagine how good it will look when that crap is off!

Very impressed.
 
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I got one from Wanstalls and it looks just like yours. Nice wood and no painted parts. Once you get the wood off, extra hot tap water and Simple Green cleaner is all you need. Do not get cleaner on wood. Metal parts will be literally squeeky clean after the Simple Green, so hit it with CLP or G96 after. Don't forget to take the piston out and put the wiggly end of the recoil spring back in first. YouTube is your friend.
 
may I suggest the following:

Take your bolt out, and if you can't remove the pin to get the actual firing pin out - then soak the entire bolt in a small container of mineral spirits. It will eat the cosmoline clean off the bolt. I left mine over night. I would take it out every few hours and shake it around to make sure the mineral spirits were getting in every nook and cranny. You'll find the mineral spirits will literally dissolve the cosmoline in quick fashion.

This method has worked on 4 sks's and I've never experiences a slam fire yet due to cosmo-caked firing pin yet.

After you've soaked the bolt over night, and dried it off, give it a shake. The firing pin should move freely and not feel "gummed" up or stuck.
 
st1264 said:
Just gorgeous SKS. WOW. Except for needing a cosmo cleanup (yuck) it is just a great specimen (haven't cleaned it yet). The bayo looks brand new! I could butter my toast with it. If all of Wanstalls sks's look like this, it's a great deal at $199! :rockOn:]
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I have never heard of a bayonet being described as "I could butter toast with it" As a butter knife is about the dullest least leathal knife there is and a bayonet was meant to be pretty scary and deadly. Do you mean this as a good thing?
 
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I have never heard of a bayonet being described as "I could butter toast with it" As a butter knife is about the dullest least leathal knife there is and a bayonet was meant to be pretty scary and deadly. Do you mean this as a good thing?
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Well buttered toast woudl be soggy and hard to cleanly cut, I assume this is what he means. lol
 
Bayo's are really dull. A butter knife would be sharper... I was joking as there isn't much use for a bayonet anymore. But it is so clean and new I could butter my toast with it.

Nice rifle... Very pleased.

It's the laminated stock version.
 
Once I clean it, I will investigate the mint marks and stuff... the stock has the funny Russian symbols on it and something below it which is hard to read (look like symbols or something, not the ######'s I've seen before). I'll check the Red Rifle section after I clean it up.
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Chinese Non-Corrosive? How about any 32acp in bulk for my new Skorpion?

I don't see much ammo listed on your website.
 
I just picked up 500 rounds of non corrosive from Wanstalls this morning for my new sks as well as a new stock for it. can't wait to get out to sylvester rd tomorrow and burn off a couple hundred FMJ's. thanks wanstalls, your my favorite gun shop in the lower mainland. see you guys again next week for some 10/22 mags.
 
Took the SKS for its initial firing. I got minute of dinner plate offhan at 100m. Using PPU Serbian ammo. At $1 a round I have to find somwe cheaper non corrosive. Thanksa for the great rifle, Gary.
 
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