Sks price check

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I am considering selling my SKS collection.

I was hoping to get input on what would be a good asking price for each of these.

I got two of these from weimajack. The other 2, I can’t remember. I have not fired them.

stock /frame /mag/bolt/Trigger guard/butt plate/finish/year

BH1906/BH1906/BH1906/BH1906/BH1906/ BH1906 electro pencil / blue/ 1954r

OT369 /OT369 /OT369 /OT369 /OT369 /none/ blue /1953r

forced CK2560/CK2560/CK45/CK2560/CK2560/none/black paint/1950r

KC2563 /KC2563 /KC2563 /KC2563 /KC2563 /none /blue/ ???


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$550 each, buy all 4 for $2000 and you won't sit on them for long. Just very fast price estimate based on what I've been seeing on EE. Of course there are better deals to be had out there like the all matching, mint Russian I recently bought with 1400 rounds of ammo for $650, but those are getting rare
 
the black paint is $475-500 and the rest are $550.

i recently sold a blued with stock no matching for $500.
 
Cabalas is selling China ones for $550 plus tax (so $620)
I wouldn't take less than that for good condition Russian unless you wanted them to move fast

Ive seen people posting on "that other site" in the $700 range but who knows if they are selling???
 
I recently paid $700 for an all matching (no forced match), Tula star on the stock with year and s/n with no refurb marks on stock, dust cover, receiver, etc. Cartouches all around crossbolt. Golden bayonet. Amazing overall condition. Free floating bolt shook and rattled freely - the gas piston rod was slightly seized in the gas tube with a very small hint of rust but I got all that cleaned off. Removed stock from rest of gun and no rust on anywhere else. Barrel is excellent. Came with around 400 rounds of ammo and some cases. Came with sling. I am happy with the $700 I paid, given I paid more earlier for something similar from another seller but no ammo, and no sling.

Regardless of the matching/force matching, the condition of the wood looks pretty decent on the photos you put out. I've seen much, much worse go for $600 in retail stores. I don't think it's unreasonable you ask $600-$700 for each of those, except for the black paint one.

There are some buyers who totally don't care about the serial numbers matching and want something in good cosmetic or functional condition.
 
DarkStalker said:
Geez, paid mine all matching numbers for 250.. yeah years ago ��
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I know...

I had a buddy who in 2012 or so told me he got an all matching Russian at LeBaron...$175.00. I knew nothing about these back then and said "are you crazy paying that amount for something as old as the hills???" I then went into LeBaron and looked at them and asked if it had a money back guarantee if it doesn't work. Guy behind the counter looked at me, laughed and said, "guy, these are from the 1950s"...

I can only imagine how many people are sitting on a gold mine and treasure trove, having the foresight to buy these decades ago by the crateful - I am told by some that there was a time you bought ammo and they threw in an SKS. Them were the good ol' days...
 
I walked into Le Barons many years ago and a guy was standing at the counter with a rifle . I said what is that ? a it's a Polish Nagant . I said how much ? he said brand new in the box $75 dollars . I said made in Poland not a chance . now I'm crying . back then the selection was great . if only I knew I would have bought a few . they were some of the best made so I found out .
 
I just had a buddy 2 weeks ago send me a msg on FB, woke up to it asking if I wanted to buy an sks for $200 asked for pics and he said it's a Russian in nice shape.

Shows up it's a 51 tula non refurbished #'s match and unfired gold bayo.

Was the fastest 200 deal ever lol.
 
Paul L said:
I just had a buddy 2 weeks ago send me a msg on FB, woke up to it asking if I wanted to buy an sks for $200 asked for pics and he said it's a Russian in nice shape.

Shows up it's a 51 tula non refurbished #'s match and unfired gold bayo.

Was the fastest 200 deal ever lol.
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That is an AMAZING deal. Even if it was a refurb, that is like a price from a decade ago...but for a non refurb gold bayonet...well done. Even at $400 that would be very decent for what you got.

I bought another one recently that was a non refurb 54 Tula all matching (not force matched - and the stock had the Tula star and the cartouches around the cross bolt) that came with a bunch of ammo, though I paid nowhere close to what you did.

I wonder, though, with the left now focused on attacking the SKS (there was a hit piece last night on The National), whether we will see more owners try to dump theirs out of fear...or conversely the prices may just skyrocket due to demand...
 
I bought the Chinese surplus a week ago from G4C. Every time a news outlet does a hit piece, I am buying something for my SKS.
 
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thegazelle said:
That is an AMAZING deal. Even if it was a refurb, that is like a price from a decade ago...but for a non refurb gold bayonet...well done. Even at $400 that would be very decent for what you got.

I bought another one recently that was a non refurb 54 Tula all matching (not force matched - and the stock had the Tula star and the cartouches around the cross bolt) that came with a bunch of ammo, though I paid nowhere close to what you did.

I wonder, though, with the left now focused on attacking the SKS (there was a hit piece last night on The National), whether we will see more owners try to dump theirs out of fear...or conversely the prices may just skyrocket due to demand...
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I never quite understood the whole "matching numbers" thing, as far as the SKS is concerned.

I suppose if someone is a serious collector, then maybe yes...but most people I know care only about one thing and that is reliability and maybe the cool, utilitarian factor.

All the SKS rifles I ever owned, not once I bothered to check if any of the numbers are matching or not.
I just shot them.

I don't think that the Liberals will ban the SKS due to the fact, that most of them are non traceable (with the exception of any post may 18-th purchases maybe).

They know, that the level of compliance as far as turning them in would be near zero.
They will sooner ban all of the semis, than the SKS
 
CZ Shooter said:
I never quite understood the whole "matching numbers" thing, as far as the SKS is concerned.

I suppose if someone is a serious collector, then maybe yes...but most people I know care only about one thing and that is reliability and maybe the cool, utilitarian factor.

All the SKS rifles I ever owned, not once I bothered to check if any of the numbers are matching or not.
I just shot them.

I don't think that the Liberals will ban the SKS due to the fact, that most of them are non traceable (with the exception of any post may 18-th purchases maybe).

They know, that the level of compliance as far as turning them in would be near zero.
They will sooner ban all of the semis, than the SKS
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100% agree with you - I think they have realized that banning by name is only going to precipitate new models for which they will have to deal with later. I think I even heard something like that from NFA Talk as I was driving to work this morning - Igercich believes there will be a more broader ban.

But even post May 18, if they were bought privately and people actually got a reference number, the government has no idea what was bought/sold. Even if one bought an SKS retail, the government/police would have to confiscate the store sales records to track them down...and stores aren't going to just hand them over without a court order.

I do think unfortunately the liberal government is trying to play the long game here. I just hope that this economy and all their scandals and abuse of power is finally the death knell in the NDP decoupling its support and hopefully Trudeau will suffer a non-confidence vote at some juncture before he has a chance to make the continued march towards a full out ban a reality.

As for the matching numbers - yes I think it is more of a collector's thing. I have 2 of them all matching that I have never shot and based on close inspection, there is zero wear anywhere even after I cleaned up some off the cosmo. I think I am going to just keep it that way. I know, seems like a complete waste of money to have something just sitting around, but I have collector's toys, hockey cards, comic books, etc that are in the same situation - more of a "having a piece of history" something that is in as good of a condition as I could find. I have some early 1962/63 Spider Man comic books that are graded in near mint and I had thoughts of just breaking the seal and reading them, but I dunno, I am kind of weird that way of just liking historical items.

I do have a "beater" SKS that I use that has a refurb stock, refurb gas tube, but rest of it matches and the stock is in rough shape, and that one shoots fine, but it's more for utility...the ones that are in collector's grade have absolutely gorgeous stocks - I more just handle and take a good whiff of circa 1954, which is like 20 years before I was even born. I have some that are in amazing shape but have been shot, so I may break one out tomorrow and give it a whirl.
 
I never understood the matching thing either with SKS but if I see 2 for the same price and one is matching, I take the matching one. But in general, I would rather take the none matching one than the one with the scratched up stock.

As to prices, I agree with the last poster, you can still get them for almost the same price as 10 years ago. Most of the cheap ones 10 years ago were those BBQ paint Russian ones. I had one, also had a few of the stock repairs which I rarely see today, was an excellent shooter.

Too many people gave in to the dealer pricing we saw over the last 1 or 2 years. I mean, why would you pay $550 plus tax and shipping for one from a dealer you haven't seen, compared to a $450 one on the EE in quite decent condition?
 
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fritzhanzel said:
why would you pay $550 plus tax and shipping for one from a dealer you haven't seen, compared to a $450 one on the EE in quite decent condition?
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This is a really good point. I would even add paying that price for a dealer you have seen - as the gun is sold as-is an the dealer has no evidence of testing them, especially if they are all bathed in cosmoline, it's really a hit and miss proposition, at a higher risk price point. I bought one earlier this summer from a retailer, and it was only until I took it to the range and after one (1) shot the trigger wouldn't reset...I knew I should have probably bought one from the EE (I have since bought a few more all off the EE). Turns out the problem with the trigger not resetting was because the sear was completely seized due to crud and debris - I only found this out after I took the whole thing apart myself, since...well, it's not like it comes with a money back warranty from the retailer, or even an exchange policy on surplus rifles.

Buying from someone who has verifiably shot it and assuming they are not understating any problems, it is probably a safer bet overall, and likely a much better one for the wallet.
 
my 2 cents on numbers matching

Would you rather a car where all the serial numbers match and its like it was off the assembly line
or would you rather the same model car but built with a pile of spare parts?

Yes the both work and the spare parts car may run great.
Its not that id pay extra for a numbers matching, its more that id expect a discount for not numbers matching.
 
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