Back from Colorado with an SKS question.

[rlg]

Hello everyone

I was in Durango, Colorado last week (outdoorsman paradise of the world) for a combination of pleasure and business. Needless to say, when I am anywhere in the USA I always visit the hunting and fishing stores of the area I am visiting.

In one particular store, a debate came up regarding the definition of SKS. I explained that SKS stands for Samozaryadnyi Karabin Simonova, but one of the sales guys (who was very knowledgeable, but a tad arrogant) said to me that my statement was a popular misconception. He said that the designer’s name was Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov and on his original designs back in the early to mid 1940’s he would sign his drawing S.K.S. instead of S.G.S. because of a middle name confusion in his family, and thus it stayed that way since.

Anyway, I still think that I was right and others in the store agreed with me, but this guy seemed to have a lot of historical facts to back up his argument.

So, I put the question to my fellow CGNers. Who is right, the arrogant sales clerk or me?

Back from a great adventure,
Robert

 

[Calum]

SKS stands for Samozaryadniy Karabin sistemi Simonova
Самозарядный карабин системы Симонова
"Selfloading Carbine (Karabin) of Simonova"
SKS for short.

Also did you tell him our magazines are blocked to 5 rounds as our Government is afraid of it's citizens having an uprising and kicking them out of Parlement?

 

[rlg]

That's what I thought, thanks for the confirmation

Also did you tell him our magazines are blocked to 5 rounds as our Government is afraid of it's citizens having an uprising and kicking them out of Parlement?

Yeah, I had a feeling I was right, but sometimes people put a doubt in your mind and then you start to question yourself.

Regarding the magazines, the answer to your question is yes and no….I told him that our government is so anal that they believe a 5 round capacity magazine is less dangerous than 10. I also told him that when we happen to fall upon non-modified magazines, we would never think of keeping it and using it, of course.

 

[josh1976]

When I get in arguments, I will sometimes make-up a whacky, false statement that sounds so intelligent that people believe it. I do it just to get a laugh. I think that the arogant gentleman is just so arogant, that he believes his own Bull- S*#t!!!