My first SKS purchase~walk me through it!
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Thanks for the heads-up...but I live in the land of Liberals here. You'd be lucky to find a BB gun in a Canadian Tire here in the greater Toronto area. And I'm not even kidding. There is a Canadian Tire 2 hours east of here with an impressive, Alberta-like selection of guns/shooting gear...but nothing like it around here.
I don't see any SKS in Al Flaherty's page but they have other milsurp red rifles, so they MUST have SKS as well?!?! Other wise, every Trontonian would
have to drive out of the city to one of the gun stores in the surrounding area. Is that a difficulty in your circumstances?
I guess here in the SK I don't see a 2 hr drive to a gunshop/show/shoot (or anything gun related) as a big deal and do it regularily. Or maybe my wife and I are rednecks since she generally travels with me, in fact she's been known to piut on makeup to go to a gunshow.
I have a bunch of them. I just bought a used Chicom for $125. After I got it cleaned up, it is the best shooter. It had been purchased many years ago by the original owner. Apparently he did not know to clean the cosmoline out of it. The bolt and gas tube were the worst, totally plugged, probably not functional in the condition I picked it up. The firing pin was seized in the bolt. It would have slam fired for sure. Moral: Make sure you clean it when you get it. Follow the "Sticky" at the top of the Red Rifle forum for cleaning instructions.
To really make you easterners jealous: The closest retail outlet of any kind to me is a gun shop!! Whoop, Whoop! 5 minutes from door to door, and they have Red Surplus in stock, SKS, Mosin, and Tokarev's with ammo as well.
To really make you easterners jealous: The closest retail outlet of any kind to me is a gun shop!! Whoop, Whoop! 5 minutes from door to door, and they have Red Surplus in stock, SKS, Mosin, and Tokarev's with ammo as well.
Ya i have 3 at the moment all set up differently. One still new in the box with a bunch up add ons like pin on break . Grip. High vis sight post . And vented tube cover. I get bored easy and there cheaper to play with then 10/22. I also have a mosin and a tt33 love my reds
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The reason we don't stock them is the RCMP months and months ago released a notice saying they'd found one with a major mechanical issue (read as either went full auto as an odd experimental version that was in a regular crate, or had a busted part, all I know for sure is it was not an issue of dirt), and that it was the business responsibility to do a full strip and inspection on all of the rifles we receive.
Here is the general RCMP post about it (note this is not new, this has been out since November 2014)
And here is the specifics outlining what we would need to do with each rifle
As you can see the labor involved & liability involved would drive the price up on the rifles significantly, and being the last gun shop inside the Toronto boundaries means we have to weigh that liability issue with a lot of seriousness. "full auto gun sold at Toronto gunshop" is not something anyone needs to see, and nobody wants to see $500.00 SKS rifles either, so here we are.
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In the RCMP protocol quoted they have it backwards in Fig.3. The top is early and the bottom is late. This is a significant error!
I got mine from Tenda (www.gotenda.com) in Richmond Hill recently. Didn't get a chance to shoot yet but I was able to check everything before buying.
The BBQ paint, if done right doesn't look bad and I was looking at a nice 1955 today that had it done well it is some kind of parkerizing, $169.99, there was a 1953 izzy refurbed with blueing every where but the bolt/dust cover. That had a shiny paint!?! There was also a real nice light refurb 1953 Tula which was tight,, all for $169. A piece,, all birch stock! That was at my local CTC! They are moving to a new location and will have up to 150 SKS on opening day, or so I am told! They also said the new stock coming in is costing them a bit more so soon prices will rise probably $20 on the shooter grade stuff!
Here is my buddy's 229.9 BBQ painted CT SKS, nice stock really nice bore and internals.
And my nicely blued SKS.
I stripped the stock as my son said he disliked the smell and used Tung Oil, pin on brake, added a bipod because we are lazy and use a shooting table, a pinned mag, buttstock pad as the metal one is just too smooth for us.
Put up a newer pic:
Take your time, choose a gun one, many CNGers on EE will sell a nice one, or do a road trip and find one outside of TO.
And my nicely blued SKS.
I stripped the stock as my son said he disliked the smell and used Tung Oil, pin on brake, added a bipod because we are lazy and use a shooting table, a pinned mag, buttstock pad as the metal one is just too smooth for us.
Put up a newer pic:
Take your time, choose a gun one, many CNGers on EE will sell a nice one, or do a road trip and find one outside of TO.
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both nice, where did you get the bipod?Here is my buddy's 229.9 BBQ painted CT SKS, nice stock really nice bore and internals.
And my nicely blued SKS.
I stripped the stock as my son said he disliked the smell and used Tung Oil, pin on brake, added a bipod because we are lazy and use a shooting table, a pinned mag, buttstock pad as the metal one is just too smooth for us.
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Take your time, choose a gun one, many CNGers on EE will sell a nice one, or do a road trip and find one outside of TO.
Thanks, got the AKM style bipod (25.00), muzzle brake (14.00), black nylon AK sling (7.00), and picatinny cover (20.00) all off EBAY from the States. The rail cover is not suitable for a scope but fine for light or red dot for playing around, it also is see thru for the irons, just tried to modernize it for my son a bit, as a father-son project.
Looks, smells, and feels new now even though it's older than me.
Wasn't into the bayonet thing, and while I know I should have left the stock, not like its a rare collector gun.
This picture was taken with another phone but the colour is closer, really like the laminate look.
Looks, smells, and feels new now even though it's older than me.
Wasn't into the bayonet thing, and while I know I should have left the stock, not like its a rare collector gun.This picture was taken with another phone but the colour is closer, really like the laminate look.
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