Really? The end of cheap SKS's?

Everyone seems worried about numbers. I know for a fact there are over 50
Of them within 45min of my house lol that's only at 3 of the 5 stores as I havnt been to the other two or anything this week. I picked up a 1950 for
$200 taxes in.
 
A few weeks ago Lever Arms speculated the amount was close to 100,000. So there must other big volume sellers around. I think Lever moves a lot of Military Rifles, They have been around since the 70,s .

Curtton said:
that would be my guess too .

canam said several years ago there was 50,000 sks in Canada since then add what westrifle brought in , then marstar and then smaller amount by others .
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grelmar said:
I was originally skeptical when you first mentioned the situation... But I'm much less skeptical now, based on seeing the supply dry up in all the online retailers.

Still, if we can keep getting them in even the $250 range, that would be great. Compared to modern manufacture repeaters, they're a deal even at $400 - which is what's driving the price south of the border. A solid, reliable, moderately accurate repeater in 7.62x39 is worth that. Look at what it costs to get a modern production rifle that fits that description - $700 and up, if you're lucky.

Do I think it's going to be a huge price jump, or that supply will completely evaporate? Not really to either.

Keep haggling at the table Westrifle - fight for the Canuck right to cheap Red surplus :cool:
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What's driving the price in the US is "supply meets demand" and the fact that SKS's have been on the prohibited import list to the USA since about 1989 for the Russian ones and 1994 for the Chinese ones. This plus the fact that the population of the USA is about 10 times that of Canada and the percentage of gun owners/collectors is probably 100 times that of Canada.

We have been getting them cheap because we are one of the few countries that still allow their importation and unrestricted sale, and out of the minimum 15 million made (some say as high as 45 million with the Chinese & Yugo ones included) only about 2 million have been exported to countries outside of the old communist block, like North America and other western countries.

So there are still plenty available, if the Canadian importers are smart they could just get together and tell the sellers that we only will pay this much or they can keep them. It's not like they can go sell them to anybody else in quantity.
 
Plus the more they sell to us creates more of a market to buy all their old surplus ammo that costs more to safely dispose of then to sell to shooters. And as with the SKS's the Yanks are not allowed to buy any of that steel cored surplus ammo, so once again, who else can they sell it too!
 
mkrnel said:
Plus the more they sell to us creates more of a market to buy all their old surplus ammo that costs more to safely dispose of then to sell to shooters. And as with the SKS's the Yanks are not allowed to buy any of that steel cored surplus ammo, so once again, who else can they sell it too!
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There is certain countries that has been buying Sks for their fighters. Argentina, Columbia , Ethiopia , Sudan Malaysia . Commercial sales are done all over Europe , New Zealand , Canada.
We are not the only people buying them. As for ammo Africa can take it all in a matter of 3 month if they had the money. There is more Ak there than in Russia :)
 
Those countries want and can buy AK's for a lot less than a SKS sells here. Europe has a very small sized market for these and also been saturated with SKS's and as most know their are far more restrictions on owning SKS's and other Military Semi-auto's there. NZ, same thing plus the entire population is only about 4 million.

I did not say we are the only buyers but we are most probably the biggest civilian market at the moment.

As for ammo into Africa, they want to pay far less for it then we do, when they sell to them they are buying at about $25 USD a case for old surplus.
 
I paid 350. 2 years ago. I had a choice of a mildly refurbished 1979 norinco or a later model D, for 400. . I went with the '79 one. Prices used to be as low as 60. here but that was long ago. I saw some advertised in J&G news letter for 500.
 
There are lot of funny things I read in the thread. Without going into details about current situation in Ukraine (I read a lot of BS lies here, including some from industry members) I just wanted to point that every market has its capacity. Amount of SKSs here in Canada is enormous. Everyday we see several SKSs posted on EE. I see them on every gun show. How much more could we possible acquire? I think capacity is pretty much filled up. Everybody who wanted got his one to ten SKSs (I have no one yet). Even with exchange rate fluctuations and higher prices - we would get just slight price correction. Huge price increase will not work, as there are plenty on second hand market. The only thing that could drastically change situation is no new imports from Ukraine, but even with this worst case scenario prices could not skyrocket again because of huge amount of SKSs already on hands. There are only so much would ever need, it's not the beer, eh? :)
 
SKS's are like Sugar Crisp. You can never get enough!
C'mon Horilka, Join the club! Peer pressure, peer pressure, peer pressure....
 
Horilka said:
There are lot of funny things I read in the thread. Without going into details about current situation in Ukraine (I read a lot of BS lies here, including some from industry members) I just wanted to point that every market has its capacity. Amount of SKSs here in Canada is enormous. Everyday we see several SKSs posted on EE. I see them on every gun show. How much more could we possible acquire? I think capacity is pretty much filled up. Everybody who wanted got his one to ten SKSs (I have no one yet). Even with exchange rate fluctuations and higher prices - we would get just slight price correction. Huge price increase will not work, as there are plenty on second hand market. The only thing that could drastically change situation is no new imports from Ukraine, but even with this worst case scenario prices could not skyrocket again because of huge amount of SKSs already on hands. There are only so much would ever need, it's not the beer, eh? :)
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There are new shooters getting into the sport every day that don't own a SKS and want one. If the price of new ones goes up so does the resale price of the ones here now.
 
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