SKS...DMR? Is this real or imaginary

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Hey guys,

So a few years back I saw a side mounted scoped SKS with a Russian scope at a gun show. The thing looked wicked cool but i passed because I couldn't afford it at the time and I was never sure if it was a legit build. Interested in learning if these are even real or just made in some dudes garage once brought into Canada. If anyone has some info it'd be awesome. Or even one for sale maybe?

Thanks!
 
No not a thing

Yes can put a scope on an sks

An SKS or AK47 have the DMR range of a phone booth

Draganovs (308 anc actual dmr round) are prohibited

I’m really not sure why I responded to this,,, so much no!!!
 
"Not Real" as in no, nothing from original factory or refurb plant.

However, Russia (and other eastern euro countries?) product an aftermarket sks "Molot" side rail that once drilled/tapped to the receiver can mount PO/POSP scopes & picatinny rails.
 
You definitely want to be informed at gun shows. I saw an old guy trying to sell a beat up Russian refurb in a beat up tapco stock with the front sight cut off, NC Star muzzle brake welded to the barrel and a dust cover scope mount for $850. He had some young guy eating his BS up who nearly bought it. The look I gave the guy was returned with a look that said he knew that I knew.
 
I'm guessing you saw SKS with a PU scope and mount they are pretty good scope so I fired a mosin with one before and it is accurate with it but not at past 250 yards lol
 
supernova said:
You definitely want to be informed at gun shows. I saw an old guy trying to sell a beat up Russian refurb in a beat up tapco stock with the front sight cut off, NC Star muzzle brake welded to the barrel and a dust cover scope mount for $850. He had some young guy eating his BS up who nearly bought it. The look I gave the guy was returned with a look that said he knew that I knew.
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that right there describes the Ontario gunshow circuit, and why i don't go anymore. i never see anything there that is worth getting that i cant find on the equipment exchange for cheaper without the B.S.

i don't know what gunshows are like in Alberta but here its 99% the crap the old fudd doesn't want anymore so he lugs it from show to show for years on end sometimes, charging way too much for it and not negotiating on his price. i cringe just thinking about Ontario gun shows lol

actually the cringe factor is why i don't go into many gunshops anymore, i just buy from their online store or on the EE
 
well, get SKS in a very good condition with #1 stamped on its front sight, get choate sturdy permanent fix side rail, but get it installed with micrometer precision, then with a good hornady (if you find 7.62x39) you may be able have somewhat mediocre DMR... but you'd need a detachable AK47 mag mode. this is my imho. SKS is good and it is the one I am grabbing for SHTF, but for DMR... maybe a bit not what you'd like from as a modern rifle
 
NeonGreen said:
that right there describes the Ontario gunshow circuit, and why i don't go anymore. i never see anything there that is worth getting that i cant find on the equipment exchange for cheaper without the B.S.

i don't know what gunshows are like in Alberta but here its 99% the crap the old fudd doesn't want anymore so he lugs it from show to show for years on end sometimes, charging way too much for it and not negotiating on his price. i cringe just thinking about Ontario gun shows lol

actually the cringe factor is why i don't go into many gunshops anymore, i just buy from their online store or on the EE
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lol I've been saying this for years.
I hate gun shows. I hate them but I still sometimes go despite myself!

A used lightly rusted Savage MKII mag for $30.....they're $25 brand new. No negotiation! take it or leave it! Okay #### you see you later....
Or I saw one year at the Gun Show in Renfrew Ontario years back a table set up with ziplock bags of 7.62x39 and x54. 50 round bags for $45 dollars.....this is when you could buy a crate of either at $0.15 cents a round. Selling it to young kids with a greasy smile just ripping them off all day.
It's funny SKS's are a favourite of gun show vendors trying to scam the lesser informed. I remember clearly a mixmaster Chinese/Russian SKS cobbled together from barely serviceable parts looking like it fell down an elevator shaft with a broken mag follower for the low price of $380 because it was a "vet bringback" with multiple refurb marks all over it.....8 years ago!
Or my ultimate favorite vendor tactic! Paint buckets full of random unidentified parts by the pound. You sift through them a bit find a firing pin for a generic Model 12 shotgun buddy didn't even know he had and he wants $50 no negotiation!So again #### you I'll order it off Numrich for $20 shipped. Thanks.

Just the crustiest, non personal dolts peddling discount beer at champagne prices waiting for a fool to pull a fast one on is about the best way I can sum up Canadian gun shows lol

Even the novelty of seeing how far down the rabbit hole it could go wore off pretty quick.
I stopped going to them for a long time. I went to one in Lloydmister about a year ago was the last one. The Alberta ones are better than the Ontario ones but only by a little....mostly by size. I did pick up a literally MINT single shot bolt cooey for $90 at that one. Like museum preserved condition. Never seen one in that clean a state. Maybe the only money I ever spent at a gun show after all these years honestly now that I think about it.
 
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The Designated Marksman concept didn't enter the Soviet doctrine the way it has in the US military. The average Russian rifleman was/is/will be issued a stock Kalashnikov, some magazines, and a bayonette. Their BMP infantry vehicles are really small inside, and the folding stock AKM was essential to meet the concept. A certain number of troops have squad machine guns, and an even smaller number have SVD sniper rifles. But no ordinary soldier would be trusted with something unusual or expected to be anything special.
 
Travis Bickle said:
lol I've been saying this for years.
I hate gun shows. I hate them but I still sometimes go despite myself!

A used lightly rusted Savage MKII mag for $30.....they're $25 brand new. No negotiation! take it or leave it! Okay #### you see you later....
Or I saw one year at the Gun Show in Renfrew Ontario years back a table set up with ziplock bags of 7.62x39 and x54. 50 round bags for $45 dollars.....this is when you could buy a crate of either at $0.15 cents a round. Selling it to young kids with a greasy smile just ripping them off all day.
It's funny SKS's are a favourite of gun show vendors trying to scam the lesser informed. I remember clearly a mixmaster Chinese/Russian SKS cobbled together from barely serviceable parts looking like it fell down an elevator shaft with a broken mag follower for the low price of $380 because it was a "vet bringback" with multiple refurb marks all over it.....8 years ago!
Or my ultimate favorite vendor tactic! Paint buckets full of random unidentified parts by the pound. You sift through them a bit find a firing pin for a generic Model 12 shotgun buddy didn't even know he had and he wants $50 no negotiation!So again #### you I'll order it off Numrich for $20 shipped. Thanks.

Just the crustiest, non personal dolts peddling discount beer at champagne prices waiting for a fool to pull a fast one on is about the best way I can sum up Canadian gun shows lol

Even the novelty of seeing how far down the rabbit hole it could go wore off pretty quick.
I stopped going to them for a long time. I went to one in Lloydmister about a year ago was the last one. The Alberta ones are better than the Ontario ones but only by a little....mostly by size. I did pick up a literally MINT single shot bolt cooey for $90 at that one. Like museum preserved condition. Never seen one in that clean a state. Maybe the only money I ever spent at a gun show after all these years honestly now that I think about it.
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I didn't realize you came west. At any rate I have to agree with you and NeonGreen, atleast on AB gunshows since I've never been to an ON gunshow. Lots of greasy dirt merchants with personalities like sandpaper. But there are also some good folks including some site sponsors I've met and bought from at gunshows. It's really the excitement of hunting for a gem or a deal that drives me back now and then. My local show is a joke. Maybe 30% guns at most and all overpriced. Tables full of the new cheap lines of entry level hunting rifles and shotguns for minimum of full retail or a bit more. Only one or 2 vendors with used guns but again, overpriced and common mostly. I don't waste my time there any more. I can look at airsoft junk and $20 knives on my phone if I'm that bored. Dawson and High Level have been pretty good, though the last time I went to Dawson it was so packed that you couldn't walk around, you got pushed along with the flow. I think the days of great gunshows may be over with the new age of selling cheap, high volume crap. Or maybe gunshows are just more fun before you know your stuff.
 
Please correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the Chinese had an experimental sniper version SKS,

So did Yugoslavia during their civil war.

The Chinese rifles were purpose built for issue and the Yugo rifles were desperation put togethers for the most part but I've read on different sites that sniper version Yugo SKS rifles were exported to Africa and the Middle East.

This question has been asked since the SKS was first issued. Personally I've never seen one that could be called legitimate.
 
Bear hunter I had a snicker at your use of the term “Experimental” and balkans but you qualified it later.

I imagine some of those more rag tag drunken units used whatever they could get their hands on
 
Ya, I've stopped going to my local show because I found things to be priced high, that being said, you sometimes find stuff that you don't see on the EE. And sometimes it's made in a garage and is total crap, that's why I asked on here.

Upon review the scope was a 4x fixed, (I think) grey and looked like something off a dragunov. Which for all I know it may have been. I kinda just wanted a scoped SKS to try deer hunting, for no other reason then why not. I'm not shooting at 400 yards, most of my shots are at maybe 100-150. But I'll probably just stick with my tikka hahah
 
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