Jo-Brooks in Brandon MB has Russian SKS for $169

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I went through 2 crates today and picked out 2. They are all nice. I found one with the rear sight mounted crooked, and 2 black bolts, but the rest were all really, really nice. A few had stock repairs done to them, but they were all done nicely.

For $169 they won't last long I bet.
 
SKS in Brandon, Mb.

I was in to Jo-Brooks on Monday, April 19th., and they still had about 15 or so left. Apparently they ordered a couple more crates of them.

I picked out one about a week ago.....a 1954 Tula arsenal, all matching numbers, really great shape. Some have arsenal refurbishing marks on them (the diamond or square with a diagonal line corner to corner) and some do not. Absence of such a mark is of no consequence as it seems this is a hit-or-miss thing. The usual accessories with them. Only the stocks were "force matched" to the rifle, all other serial numbers seem to match.
(Force matching is X-ing out the old serial number and stamping a matching one in.......a common practice in Russian arsenals.)


You are right, though. At $169 it is a great buy. And you get a quality production Russian SKS, with a threaded barrel.....not a pinned Chinese copy.
You can't really buy a decent .22 for that price any more!
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MagnumPeanut said:
Did your transfer go through right away?

Mine still hasn't gone through, something to do with only having a 4 digit serial.
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No, it took a couple of days for the transfer to go through. Apparently the CFC cannot perceive that there is such a thing as an Alphanumeric numbering system, and the letters in front of the serial number are part of the number. And the Russian Alphabet complicates things even more.

What is means is that there are 9999 rifles with one serial number, but at 10,000 they start over again, but only with a different letter. There is going to be an interesting time when something happens and a rifle is identified by the four digits alone. I saw that happen with a German Luger, and the cops confiscated a guy's pistol because "it was stolen....the serial number proved it."
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A bit OT, but the WW2 German S/n system was even more goofy.
It also required a factory code and a year as part of the complete S/N

So, for example, in 1940, a factory (factory code dot) would start making guns starting at number 1, then at 9999 they would flip over to 1 with a lower case "a" following, or sometimes on a separate line below. At the end of the year, it starts all over again.
So, a gun might read

1234
b
dot
1940

and if any part is not included, the S/N is not complete.
Wanna bet a few guns are not registered properly with the CFC?
 
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