Arrived: Zastava Yugoslavian SKS 59-66 Rifle w/o Grenade Launcher & Bayonet: 7.62x39mm, 22" Barrel

A few years back Traddex brought a bunch of these in and they were in beautiful condition, kickin myself for not getting one, I think all the cosmoline scared me away lol
 
Timmy1234 said:
What’s the difference between them and a regular Chinese sks?
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Primarily, the Chinese&Russian SKS's have chrome-lined bores and the Yugo ones do NOT have chrome-lined bores. Chrome-lined bores resist corrosion/erosion from corrosive surplus ammo much better than the non-chrome-lined bores. That's why I never acquired a Yugo SKS in the past. I've been using cheap corrosive surplus ammo in my SKS's. Why the Yugo SKS's are not chrome-lined? I think because the Yugo Army used very nice, basically non-corrosive/very mildly corrosive, brass cased and brass jacketed bullet, M67 ammunition. I have that ammo and only shoot it from my 7.62x39 Howa and Ruger Ranch bolt action rifles. Very accurate ammo. I've never noticed any traces of corrosion a few days after shooting it. Unfortunately, M67 ammo is Berdan primed.
 
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Bigcrigger said:
Without the grenade launcher/bayonet there’s nothing that really incentivizes someone to buy this over any other SKS, and for $200 less my ma and pa LGS has chrome lined barrel SKS rifles with the pokey bits intact. For $100 less, Russian.
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To each their own. I want a yugo sks on my holster build. Its unqiue and different. A few hundred dollars is a drop in a bucket if you've been building/collecting FAs for decades.
 
CP 5.3 said:
To each their own. I want a yugo sks on my holster build. Its unqiue and different. A few hundred dollars is a drop in a bucket if you've been building/collecting FAs for decades.
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If I will sell those buba Yugo to you, I guess you will never pay around 1000$ shipped. But if a dealer.....different history....
 
corneluncc said:
If I will sell those buba Yugo to you, I guess you will never pay around 1000$ shipped. But if a dealer.....different history....
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The dealer is offering free shipping…

I miss the grenade launcher and bayonet too but I feel like it’s only 1-200 different from the 700$ shipped people are asking for any SKS nowadays, it’s not outrageously different. Like if you don’t compare it to a pristine yugo but rather to a generic SKS it’s not the worst thing out there?
 
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05RAV said:
Primarily, the Chinese&Russian SKS's have chrome-lined bores and the Yugo ones do NOT have chrome-lined bores. Chrome-lined bores resist corrosion/erosion from corrosive surplus ammo much better than the non-chrome-lined bores. That's why I never acquired a Yugo SKS in the past. I've been using cheap corrosive surplus ammo in my SKS's. Why the Yugo SKS's are not chrome-lined? I think because the Yugo Army used very nice, basically non-corrosive/very mildly corrosive, brass cased and brass jacketed bullet, M67 ammunition. I have that ammo and only shoot it from my 7.62x39 Howa and Ruger Ranch bolt action rifles. Very accurate ammo. I've never noticed any traces of corrosion a few days after shooting it. Unfortunately, M67 ammo is Berdan primed.
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I did not know any of that. Thank you!
 
Yes, but during refurb, if the barrels were out of spec. ( shot out) the replacement barrels were usually chrome lined, so some folks may have the older sks but with a chrome barrel, I have had both. Either way they are great rifles. Too bad they couldn't bring in some in tact 59/66!
 
05RAV said:
Primarily, the Chinese&Russian SKS's have chrome-lined bores and the Yugo ones do NOT have chrome-lined bores. Chrome-lined bores resist corrosion/erosion from corrosive surplus ammo much better than the non-chrome-lined bores. That's why I never acquired a Yugo SKS in the past. I've been using cheap corrosive surplus ammo in my SKS's. Why the Yugo SKS's are not chrome-lined? I think because the Yugo Army used very nice, basically non-corrosive/very mildly corrosive, brass cased and brass jacketed bullet, M67 ammunition. I have that ammo and only shoot it from my 7.62x39 Howa and Ruger Ranch bolt action rifles. Very accurate ammo. I've never noticed any traces of corrosion a few days after shooting it. Unfortunately, M67 ammo is Berdan primed.
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I read there was a shortage of chromium for lining the barrels as being another reason they did not get chrome lined barrels.
 
xxDaveMcxx said:
I read there was a shortage of chromium for lining the barrels as being another reason they did not get chrome lined barrels.
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Yugoslavia was a significant producer of Chromium. One needs to look at whether they had the technical capability or the desire to chrome line the bores.
 
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