SKS market collapse is it true?
- Thread starter erkner
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Haha excellent sales strategy right there.
Don't think you would be able to prevent anything when you get an airstrike called down on you
Not to mention the ability for our government to implement the war measures act and lock us all up as they please ahead of time based on comments like this, haha.But it would be handy to have since the government can't always defend you.
Don't think you would be able to prevent anything when you get an airstrike called down on you
But it would be handy to have since the government can't always defend you.
Dying with my boots on and a gun in my hands is my main concern. I was born free and that's the way I'll die.
Don't think it's true. Few guns are sold in big box stores like the SKS is... maybe a 10/22 or something. These sell well, that's why CT and gun shops go through crates of them.
There will always be a market for them, they are a great starter centerfire rifle with cheap ammo choices.
There will always be a market for them, they are a great starter centerfire rifle with cheap ammo choices.
And some stores sell them by the crate, or at least used to.
Interesting point of view and I am curious to hear about the disadvantages that you speak of, I have a few both in D models and M56's, they beat out my AR's on performance and reliability, they are stronger than any like style platform out there, they go bang every time I pull the trigger, and at 100 meters Herman the German gets riddled with FMJ's, the platform is so solid and versatile that I built three medium range hunting rifles out of them and they are perfect out to 300 meters which is further than needed for the average hunt as the energy delivered at that range will still knock any deer smaller than a moose, as well as a black bear, flat on its back.
In a nutshell the rifle is a great rifle in the hands of a competent user and can be adapted to suit any need you want even to the use of optics. The caliber is efficient and cheap as well as being a very underrated hunting caliber, I even had a Savage Model 14 built in the caliber with a 22 barrel that reaches out comfortably to 500 meters using Hornady's SST rounds.
Its greatest attribute would naturally be as that of a JIKSH carbine, low maintenance even with the use of corrosive ammo, cheap on ammo, reliable under all conditions, light recoil vs anything else out there so that even ones kids can use them, easy to load during stressed situations, and just as easy to point and shoot, no other non restricted carbine can offer one the same attributes so I would really like to hear what you see as a downside to making this rifle the backbone of anyone's collection.
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Sounds like the perfect gun to buy when it goes on sale and use all the cheap surplus ammo in.
Quality is down and ammo prices are up. Prices are now too high ($219 plus 13% at my local CT). Non-corrosive ammo is no longer available at decent prices. Also - you really need to clean them properly if you shoot corrosive (despite what everyone says about using a little windex/boiling water and you are gtg).
The current grades available need to be $150-$175 to sell.
I would love to pick up a cherry SVT40 (again) just to finish my collection. They are way too hard to clean properly. To me - it is a once a year rifle to shoot with non-corrosive steel cased ammo only.
The current grades available need to be $150-$175 to sell.
I would love to pick up a cherry SVT40 (again) just to finish my collection. They are way too hard to clean properly. To me - it is a once a year rifle to shoot with non-corrosive steel cased ammo only.
I do like the fact the SKS is affordable to those who appreciate them and for new shooters to get a "gateway" rifle at a low price point they start their collection with.
Out of curiosity I would like to know the actual SKS number that is in Canada. I first bought one in 96 and I thought everyone had one at that point.
150,000 is way low in my opinion, if I had to guess it would be 750,000
Out of curiosity I would like to know the actual SKS number that is in Canada. I first bought one in 96 and I thought everyone had one at that point.
150,000 is way low in my opinion, if I had to guess it would be 750,000
I love the SKS. I own several CZ's, Hk, Ar's... in fact, dozens and dozens of firearms. I still love it. It's like those nasty orange goo covered nacho's at 7-11; just because you've had better, doesn't mean it isn't fun to slum it every now and then. The big upside of them: they work exactly as intended, every time you pull the trigger.
But I don't need any more. Lol.
But I don't need any more. Lol.
Don't think you would be able to prevent anything when you get an airstrike called down on you
But it would be handy to have since the government can't always defend you.
Remember that recent war in the middle East? Where the strongest military force the world has ever known tried to eradicate a rag tag militia group called the "Taliban" over a ten year period........guess what the Taliban still there. It's called gorilla warfare, and it works.
Oh, and SKS's rock.
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Gorilla warfare only works when the modern military has combat constraints placed upon them, militarily they will need to carpet bomb the cities, towns and villages in to the stone ages, think about WW2 Germany and Japan, not muck left of any of there cities and towns, Vietnam and Iraq, cities and the civilian populations largely left in tact, still lots of fight left. This tactic of strategic strikes does not work, the Romans learned this thousands of years ago destroy everything and you will break the enemies will to fight, if a nation is truly at war it must destroy as much of the enemy as possible that means fighting men, the women, the old, the young, everything.
