Picking out your SKS!!

similar experience with milsurps especially as the rest have stated.
I bought two rifles, a Mosin 91/30 and an older SVT40 (my first SVT40) from a dealer online.
The Mosin had a sewer pipe bore with a trashed crown and wouldn't shoot better than 2 feet at 100 meters, the SVT40 was the same. The bore was literally rotted smooth and it wouldn't shoot at all. Also the handguards and steel vents were loose and sloppy.
I ended up selling them with full disclosure essentially at "parts gun" prices at a huge loss......

Long story short, if you're buying a milsurp, know what you need to look at to ensure it shoots well and as has been stated already, always try and inspect the rifle personally before you buy if it's possible.
Personally, I would wait as long as it takes to inspect any milsurp before I by one again vice jumping the gun (bad pun) and rushing to order one sight unseen.
 
4x4junkie said:
When I bought my second one I must have sent the sales guy into the back 6 or 7 times till he came out with one I liked. He seemed kinda annoyed but they weren't busy so I didn't care. Hey it's my money so I want to be happy. YMMV
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Well, I guess he never was a woman's shoe salesman.
 
fenceline said:
Nice pick! Refurb? Looks like a black bayo. Year?
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If i remember correctly 54.

Also i think finding a sks without a refurbish stamp of some kind is going to be tough now even if they just looked it over and did nothing too it.
Out of 2 crates their was literally 4 rifles with hardwood stocks. the rest all laminated or painted and miss matched parts.
and out of those 4 they wouldn't let us take any of the izzy's something about grand prairie rcmp requesting them be set aside for some reason about trigger grp modifications they have been seeing kinda pissed me off i was gonna buy 1 of each tula and izzy.

anyhow the rifling looked great in this so i just hope it shoots as well as the last one i setup for a friend of mine.

pss and yes black bayo
 
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Travis Bickle said:
similar experience with milsurps especially as the rest have stated.
I bought two rifles, a Mosin 91/30 and an older SVT40 (my first SVT40) from a dealer online.
The Mosin had a sewer pipe bore with a trashed crown and wouldn't shoot better than 2 feet at 100 meters, the SVT40 was the same. The bore was literally rotted smooth and it wouldn't shoot at all. Also the handguards and steel vents were loose and sloppy.
I ended up selling them with full disclosure essentially at "parts gun" prices at a huge loss......

Long story short, if you're buying a milsurp, know what you need to look at to ensure it shoots well and as has been stated already, always try and inspect the rifle personally before you buy if it's possible.
Personally, I would wait as long as it takes to inspect any milsurp before I by one again vice jumping the gun (bad pun) and rushing to order one sight unseen.
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Why did not sent back to dealer?
 
fenceline said:
Because someone always wants one on the bottom. And they litter the floor with all the others and walk away when the one in the bottom wasn't what they wanted.

Saw it happen. Guy walked right out of the store when he was done pawing at them all and staff went to putting them away. Oh, and the barrel sweeping was awesome.

Some people ruin it for everyone.
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A simple way to fix that is to just have 5 in the crate at a time. 5 is more than reasonable to decided on a shooter SKS.
 
Yea great grandpa used to buy 303 enfields by the crate's to get one or two really good ones lol.
So cheap to buy i guess it was like buying toilet paper back then.
And then he would sell off the not so great ones to the local's or keep a few parts around , spare sites and stocks ect.
I remember him telling me about that when i was a kid lol.
 
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