Examining for purchase

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horseshoe

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I'm planning on heading to my local Canadian Tire to buy an SKS. I have some "etiquette" questions. I've been around firearms my entire life, and have only ever bought new. Never used or surplus.

There are 2 very opposing opinions that are expressed on CGN frequently when it comes to examining the bore of a rifle. When I am at home, in private, and am certain I've ensured a firearm is unloaded and safe, I'm one of the ones that has no problem looking down the barrel from the business end.

In the middle of a CT store on the other hand....

How can I check the bore/rifling in store on an SKS without having all the finger pointing at the guy who looked down the barrel? Also, what else should I be checking for on a surplus Russian SKS?
 
horseshoe said:
I'm planning on heading to my local Canadian Tire to buy an SKS. I have some "etiquette" questions. I've been around firearms my entire life, and have only ever bought new. Never used or surplus.

There are 2 very opposing opinions that are expressed on CGN frequently when it comes to examining the bore of a rifle. When I am at home, in private, and am certain I've ensured a firearm is unloaded and safe, I'm one of the ones that has no problem looking down the barrel from the business end.

In the middle of a CT store on the other hand....

How can I check the bore/rifling in store on an SKS without having all the finger pointing at the guy who looked down the barrel? Also, what else should I be checking for on a surplus Russian SKS?
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If you don't want to look down the muzzle end you will have to remove the receiver dust cover and pull out the bolt and bolt carrier and the recoil spring to look at it from the receiver end. Which is easy to do will only take 30 seconds.
 
looking down the bore wont work anyway, it will be soaked in cosmoline and you wont see ####. Play with the bolt, mag release, and open it up and take a look at the bolt and such. Ask about there returns if the bore it pitted, take home clean and then look. I never seen one with a bad bore yet....
 
My local CT just hands you an SKS and if you ask to look at others, it seems like quite a chore. On the other hand, while out of town on the weekend I picked up another one. It was listed at $160 but only one was in the display. As soon as I said I wanted one we were off to the back and digging through boxes
 
I purchased my sks at Canadian tire,he grabbed a box from the stock they had in the back, just took the box home cleaned the rifle and then off to the range I went. Shot it works great no problems with the rifling or firearm. My advise ask them on their return polices they will return just about anything there. So when you get it home you can check it out how ever you see fit.

P.S love the rifle a lot of fun to shoot I also put the tapco stock on mine
 
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