If you thought SKS prices are crazy here....

HarveyDeRoy said:
I honestly couldnt beleive it when i saw that....
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You can say anything you want about sks or any other rifle I suppose, they call them super grade etc etc.. some are nicer than others, some have a laminated stock, some have Chrome bores! Some are blued and some parkerized. Other than that they are an sks, I have a few, love them, but the lies and stretching of the truth is outrageous and people fall for it thinking they are getting a better sks than the next guy!
 
There are huge variations in condition. Most had some degree of refurbishment, some are original or very close to original. Some are completely mismatched. Some years and factory codes are more rare. Etc. Etc. This sets value, more or less. Most shoot about the same. If I were looking for a mint condition, all-matching specimen in its original form, I would most certainly pay a premium. Is $1000 alot for a quality-made firearm in premium condition? Not really these days. The good 'ol days of cheap as dirt SKS's is long over.
 
The Kurgan said:
There are huge variations in condition. Most had some degree of refurbishment, some are original or very close to original. Some are completely mismatched. Some years and factory codes are more rare. Etc. Etc. This sets value, more or less. Most shoot about the same. If I were looking for a mint condition, all-matching specimen in its original form, I would most certainly pay a premium. Is $1000 alot for a quality-made firearm in premium condition? Not really these days. The good 'ol days of cheap as dirt SKS's is long over.
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This is true and considering all costs to manufacture a rifle such as the sks have increased drastically from when most SKS rifles were made, in any country.
Even the costs the american importers incurred making the SKS-D commercial variant..... you simply can't make a rifle today like the sks for what it cost back then.

I have a friend I've known for 30+ years. We were good friends when Allen Lever of Lever Arms (RIP) sat at his store counter and we would make trips there often to buy ammo and such.
He was a former BC Biathalon champ (teens) and was a army cadet for several years so he was all about the .22 rimfires and things while I fawned over military rifles LOL
Back then he had a hoot shooting my sks rifles and always said.... I gotta get me one of those. Fast forward from the early 90's to today..... we both ended up moving to the BC interior and 5 km apart and he married one of my wife's friends. He still to this day remarks..... I gotta get me an sks one day LOL I told him they were 500 dollar ballpark and 1200 for a true D and he almost spat out his beer hahaha
 
there is a guy name mike, i wont mention his last name. he use to work for a gun dealer who thought he knew everything about guns. he always said sks prices are going lower everytime time westrifle said its going up.

he didnt know history repeats itself, what happened to the lee enfield back in the 70s happened to the sks. it starts with a huge over supply, so cheap we all bubbaed them (LE was sporterized), then the supply dried up, the prices spike.
 
I've finally seen it all. There's a non-Yugo all matching 1949 SKS at a dealer in N.B. listed for $1,199+tax!!! LeBaron used to blow them out the door in the early 80s for under $120. This world has gone full-bore stupid.
 
handofzeus said:
I've finally seen it all. There's a non-Yugo all matching 1949 SKS at a dealer in N.B. listed for $1,199+tax!!! LeBaron used to blow them out the door in the early 80s for under $120. This world has gone full-bore stupid.
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a 1949 sks got to be russian and its collectable but thats a bit steep.
 
Just want an SKS. Anything over 500 seems outrageous. New PAL owner, never owned one and want one. Am I dreaming or is it reasonable to get one in my budget of 3-500$.
 
ASingh99 said:
Just want an SKS. Anything over 500 seems outrageous. New PAL owner, never owned one and want one. Am I dreaming or is it reasonable to get one in my budget of 3-500$.
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Not if you want an unfired, mint example. But I've seen lots of SKS in the ~$400 to $450 range lately. If one is listed local-ish to you, then that's the price you pay. Add $50 for shipping lately
 
Curtton said:
there is a guy name mike, i wont mention his last name. he use to work for a gun dealer who thought he knew everything about guns. he always said sks prices are going lower everytime time westrifle said its going up.

he didnt know history repeats itself, what happened to the lee enfield back in the 70s happened to the sks. it starts with a huge over supply, so cheap we all bubbaed them (LE was sporterized), then the supply dried up, the prices spike.
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I still hear about all millions the SKS and Mosins in the world and that we will never run out and the price will never go up …. Oh and at any price, they’re overpriced. People talk and don’t listen and meanwhile the sks continues to rise in price.
 
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