A LOT of people with this hobby have that pay anything mentality.
Albanian SKS sold on gp for $2,600
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A LOT of people with this hobby have that pay anything mentality.
Tell me you can't afford collectable guns without telling me you can't afford them. That's different budget and different game. If you don't get it - that's fine. If you can't afford it - that's also fine. But questioning the presence of brain in ppl who operate budgets times more than your shooter grade guns budget is.... well, it is questioning if you have enough of that gray matter to understand it.
P.S. in 2015 I sold several of them, average price was $1600. Regular Soviet SKS was around $200 back then IIRC. And it's around $700 now, it seems.
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you nailed it man
SKS is SKS, end of story.
Of course you know better. History always sorts such things out in its own, often ironic manner. Be well, gentlemen.
To each their own. free country ( or at least a perception of it), spend your money as you please , stick the value on things as you want 
And I don't know better, i just don't care who made an SKS. It could come from Mars for all i care, still shoots like an sks, looks like an sks, and it will never be an M4 or an Ak lol. Whether it has matching serial numbers or not means nothing to me, all that matters if it shoots or not. still a $500 gun. You find a man who is willing to buy it for $2600. lol , good for you
And I don't know better, i just don't care who made an SKS. It could come from Mars for all i care, still shoots like an sks, looks like an sks, and it will never be an M4 or an Ak lol. Whether it has matching serial numbers or not means nothing to me, all that matters if it shoots or not. still a $500 gun. You find a man who is willing to buy it for $2600. lol , good for you
To each their own. free country ( or at least a perception of it), spend your money as you please , stick the value on things as you want
And I don't know better, i just don't care who made an SKS. It could come from Mars for all i care, still shoots like an sks, looks like an sks, and it will never be an M4 or an Ak lol. Whether it has matching serial numbers or not means nothing to me, all that matters if it shoots or not. still a $500 gun. You find a man who is willing to buy it for $2600. lol , good for you
and thats a perfectly reasonable stance. you're a shooter, you want a gun to use it, not to collect it. but some people do buy things to collect, be it for an investment, or just the enjoyment of owning something that is rare, historically significant, or just cool to them.
i personally would have no interest in an albanian sks, a russian one works just fine to shoot and i don't even bother shooting that. but that doesn't mean that the albanian sks is not a very valuable sks on the collectors market and worth a lot to people who collect uncommon sks.
i also have no interest in high end sports car, huge mansions, $10,000 custom built guitars, vacations in the carribean, going to concerts, going to sporting events, travelling the world, breeding snakes, opening a bed and breakfast, deep sea fishing, scuba diving, yoga, eating contests, watching netflix, bow hunting, watching the olympics, baja racing, collecting baseball cards, learning to speak spanish, home brewing beer, buying bitcoin, going to a casino, building model airplanes, or spending $12k on a long range precision rifle when the farthest range i have is 300 yards.
but that doesn't mean that people who do enjoy those things are insane, stupid, or wrong, they just have different interests and choose to spend their money in different ways.
i would rather spend 5k on 2o r 3 guns i could shoot often, other guys would rather spend 5k on one rare example of some carbine from the civil war that they will never shoot and only study and look at. that's fine by me, no criticism here.
Absolutely, hence i started with "To each their own"
Just wild to me personally thats it. same here, no criticism, just a friendly talk
