Russian or Soviet sks rifles whats the differnce?
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gewehr76
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Russian or Ukrainian are the same soviet SKS. The difference is Russians put civilian markings on various parts of the rifle for export purpose. It is what you need to look for or ask dealer if any present on rifles.
GeoShooter
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What's the difference between Canadians and Canucks?
One is a hockey team in B.C., the other in Quebec?
As for theOPs question, they are probable the same thing being called two different things. Russian sks (and others that aren't Chinese) are Soviet sks. Ukranian, Romanian, Yugoslavian sks are all Soviet sks too, but due to rarity the chances of them being the same price as a Russian is pretty slim.
My bet would be they are all Russian at $169.
hmmm , didnt know that detail . ok , found , new SKS still in production like ОП-СКС in Izhevsk .
cannot put direct pictures here
here is the link
http://www.fresher.ru/2012/09/21/evolyuciya-russkogo-karabina-ot-mosina-do-nashix-dnej/
still in production
Those are not new production weapons. Izhevsk factory "makes" hunting carbines out of milsurp. They take milsurp rifles, refurbish them, test fire, remark and sell.
Lots of models are re-branded as hunting weapons in order to make it legal to sell/buy/possess in Russia. Molot got PPSh and even Maxim MG certified as a "hunting carbine" so people can buy those things legally
Here's hunting carbine Maxim which can be legally purchased over there since it was certified as a hunting weapon http://gou.tiu.ru/p36404310-karabin-ohotnichij-maksim.html
It's just a loophole manufacturers use, similar to what we have when it comes to using 10 rd "pistol mags" in long guns. Everything is being re-branded as hunting carbine. Mosin, SVT, AKM, SKS, K98 etc. All Russian modern refurbs will have OK or ОП markings. Those symbols mean that weapon was certified as hunting carbine and can be legally purchased in Russia.
http://gou.tiu.ru/p36404310-karabin-ohotnichij-maksim.htmlIt's just a loophole manufacturers use, similar to what we have when it comes to using 10 rd "pistol mags" in long guns. Everything is being re-branded as hunting carbine. Mosin, SVT, AKM, SKS, K98 etc. All Russian modern refurbs will have OK or ОП markings. Those symbols mean that weapon was certified as hunting carbine and can be legally purchased in Russia.
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Here's hunting carbine Maxim which can be legally purchased over there since it was certified as a hunting weapon
It's just a loophole manufacturers use, similar to what we have when it comes to using 10 rd "pistol mags" in long guns. Everything is being re-branded as hunting carbine. Mosin, SVT, AKM, SKS, K98 etc. All Russian modern refurbs will have OK or ОП markings. Those symbols mean that weapon was certified as hunting carbine and can be legally purchased in Russia.
простите , но это пиСец
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Russian/Soviet = potato/po-ta-toe
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Big difference if you are collector. All those modern markings diminish the value of a firearm. SKS rifles are not as old as WW2 firearm but still. Look at RC K98 rifles. $1600-$3000 for all matching VS $600 for pinned RC rifle. I use my modern refurb SKS for shooting so I don't care about the markings but when it comes to collection, I searched for a non refurb, all original piece.
thealchemist
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The old Blue Book of firearms once suggested taking 50% off a rifles value if refurb'd or if it had additional modern markings (import/export, etc.)
Its curious that they would have them separate as they are all Russian. I'm assuming the store got them from different sources, the earlier stock was probably Ukrainian sourced and the later ones from Russia(Molot). Some of the CT store department managers are outstanding, but most don't know anything about firearms other than what the supplier tells them.
