Chinese military SKS

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About 15 years ago, I bought several SKS rifles off Wolverine. If I recall there was a discount if you bought more. The SKS's I believe were new Chinese unissued Military SKS's packed if cosmoline.

For those that have been around for a while. Does this sound right. How can I identify the rifle? What is the value of such an unissued SKS?
Any help is appreciated.
 
The 306 fitted in a triangle mean this was built for the military, a number in a square mean built for commercial purposes.
 
I sold one for $600 on another site today. Exactly what you described. 5 digit serial number. Early 60's. Factory 625 were the majority of the other ones that were available at same time. The triangle is actually the six. These are the only unnisued, unfired ones in existence.
 
Tenda has some chinese SKS "hand picked" for 269.99$

They say "GRADE A".

Anybody has pictures or comments on the condition of these particular rifles ?
 
I got my Factory 625 about 5 years ago, all matching and unissued. Kind of cool to have an original, non refurbished SKS, regardless if it’s not Russian....
 
Unused are very common. I got an unused factory 26 from Cabela's last year for $230. They are on sale right now for $220. Unless an SKS is some sort of Honor Guard variant, they have no collector value in Canada. There is simply too many in existence. There appears to be close to infinite supply. If you hear people talking about collector value, it must be Americans. There they have artificially limited supply by banning imports.
 
Andronicus said:
Unused are very common. I got an unused factory 26 from Cabela's last year for $230. They are on sale right now for $220. Unless an SKS is some sort of Honor Guard variant, they have no collector value in Canada. There is simply too many in existence. There appears to be close to infinite supply. If you hear people talking about collector value, it must be Americans. There they have artificially limited supply by banning imports.
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Unissued and unfired from factory, all matching are not common anymore. Not sure what country your in...

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Andronicus said:
Unused are very common. I got an unused factory 26 from Cabela's last year for $230. They are on sale right now for $220. Unless an SKS is some sort of Honor Guard variant, they have no collector value in Canada. There is simply too many in existence. There appears to be close to infinite supply. If you hear people talking about collector value, it must be Americans. There they have artificially limited supply by banning imports.
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You should edit and say "they have no collector value to you." I'm sure you got a nice one. Almost all of the ones that John from Marstar brought in 12- 13 yrs ago were factory 306 and 625. He sent his gunsmith to inspect them before they shipped. A lot of people think they have a factory 26 but when looked at closely, the triangle surrounding the 2 numbers is actually the six and what looks like the 6 has a break in the bottom and is a 5.
 
I've got one. Military issue, still wrapped in the plastic, covered on cosmo. Never cleaned, never fired, never taken out of the plastic. I've got it sitting in a gun case somewhere.
 
I have a couple left but I took them out of the plastic and wiped some of the cosmo off them.
Thats a good deal at Cabelas though. If I didn't have one, I'd be grabbing a couple at that price. Condition pending of course.
 
No D models. Not a fan. They're made for civilian market and have a few differences. The bolt has no feed lip guides and sometimes the carrier has no stripper clip guide. Mags can be finicky to click in properly too. Usually no bolt hold open either. Pinned instead of threaded barrels on some.
This is not true for all. Might be some great ones out there.
 
Andronicus said:
Unused are very common. I got an unused factory 26 from Cabela's last year for $230. They are on sale right now for $220. Unless an SKS is some sort of Honor Guard variant, they have no collector value in Canada. There is simply too many in existence. There appears to be close to infinite supply. If you hear people talking about collector value, it must be Americans. There they have artificially limited supply by banning imports.
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Frankly, I don't feel you are aware of the range of possibilities and rarities available to SKS collectors: a Yugo M59 (not 59/66) is pretty collectible, so is a Sino-Soviet, how about an early non-refurbed Russian? then there's the Albanian. There's a good deal more to collecting SKS's then simply buying a chromed run of the mill factory 26 that someone in China put together to separate some dumb North Americans from an extra few hundred bucks.
 
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