SKS rifle grade and price ?

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I am looking at purchasing my first rifle and I figured an SKS would be the best place to start.
I have heard that you can purchase them for around $200.
My first question is what does the 1w grade mean?
2nd... Is this rifle over priced ?


Thanks

http://www.bullseyelondon.com/sks-grade-1-w-deluxe-walnut-stock-genuine-russian-sks-surplus-rifle-7-62x39.html
 
Grade "1" sounds like pure marketing to me. And it looks like the days of the $169 SKS's are in the past. A decent SKS, with a great bore, clean bolt face, not too bad a stock, all numbers matching, and a non franken-pinned magazine, are going for around $300. IMO.
 
I'd say westrifle has the best selection of non refrebs and photos to see what they look like for $230. grade 1, grade 2 don't really mean anything it's just a dealer made up ratings to say this rifle MIGHT be better then this because "we said so". The stock might be nice walnut but I don't think any SKS is worth $400.
 
Well brother I don't know what they meen by 1w grade but if it has a walnut stock it is'nt the stock that came with the rifle. 1955 and later could have a laminated stock and priour to that the stocks are birch.I like my things original. $200 is a good price but that is'nt the stock that came with it if it's walnut.

check out the rifles at westrifle and no I don't work for them and see the diffrence. they went to Russia and picked the sks rifles themselves so they said. just my opinion.
 
I don't think SKS came in walnut so it is bubba'd! SKS come in birch or laminated,,, birch! You can still get a nice SKS for $200 ish, my thread above here on the 53 Izzy shows one I got for $169. Since then they have gone up $10-$20 just in the last 3 weeks. Keep looking.
 
I am obviously green as $hit so thanks for all your help with this.
Bobdldr I am in Ontario and would prefer not to purchase something I cant handle and inspect myself.
A walnut stock has to be priced at least $100 no ?
Dont have time to spend hrs cleaning it of cosmoline either.
 
I am just looking for something reliable that goes BANG just in case I have to meet Donald Trump or Johnny Jehad on the beach some day
 
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Picked one up two weeks ago at Tenda. On sale for $209. It was a 1954 mfr date and all s/n matched. The bolt was pretty clean, took it apart anyway to ensure no hidden cosmoline. I was able to inspect it first, lucky enough they were local to me.
 
djone368 said:
I am obviously green as $hit so thanks for all your help with this.
Bobdldr I am in Ontario and would prefer not to purchase something I cant handle and inspect myself.
A walnut stock has to be priced at least $100 no ?
Dont have time to spend hrs cleaning it of cosmoline either.
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Well it depends on who you talk to, for me if you bubba or buy a bubba'd SKS it is worth less money but lots of folk like them, you should look in the EE! There is usually plenty of messed up SKS there you can get for cheap and they have been cleaned! If you don't like cleaning though, maybe SKS are not for you, it means you will be shooting non corrosive and that stuff ain't cheap! Maybe a nice .223 would be better, ymmv! Good luck either way. Cheers Bob
 
roadcarver said:
Picked one up two weeks ago at Tenda. On sale for $209. It was a 1954 mfr date and all s/n matched. The bolt was pretty clean, took it apart anyway to ensure no hidden cosmoline. I was able to inspect it first, lucky enough they were local to me.
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That's a good price with all matching!! So far I have been hearing good things about Tenda! Congrats!
 
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Picked up a numbers matching chinese at local gun show yesterday 180 bux. And the last Russian 1950 was from canadian tire 189 And change tax in mag didn't match # s but wasn't complaining.
 
So I went to the link that the Original Poster, djone368, provided and it is a: Grade 1 SKS "With" oak stock. This is the oak stock that we were all
drooling over in a thread a few months ago. If Bullseye is using nice blued SKS for these, then yes, I would say these are worth $400.
$250 is pretty average for SKS right now and those oak stocks have to be worth $150 and they probably cleaned up the rifle some.

Hard to go wrong with an SKS, they are underpriced and we will be kicking ourselves in a few years if we don't load up on all we can get.
 
You could do a lot better than an sks if marksmanship fundementals and actually learning how to shoot concern you. If you want a crude inaccurate fairly heavy semi with a bad trigger and poor ergonomics to make a lot of noise with do it up. Imo, and it's only that, you'd be much better served with a nice 22 with better sights, trigger, stock etc etc to learn with, ammo is just as cheap. Once you own a few decent firearms youll really see them for what they are, but there's no arguing they fulfill their intended role.
 
Now that's the definition of making trying to make chicken soup out of chicken schit
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So I went to the link that the Original Poster, djone368, provided and it is a: Grade 1 SKS "With" oak stock. This is the oak stock that we were all
drooling over in a thread a few months ago. If Bullseye is using nice blued SKS for these, then yes, I would say these are worth $400.
$250 is pretty average for SKS right now and those oak stocks have to be worth $150 and they probably cleaned up the rifle some.

Hard to go wrong with an SKS, they are underpriced and we will be kicking ourselves in a few years if we don't load up on all we can get.
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There is no grading scale for the SKS. Sellers label them grade 1, hand picked, super grade, extra super duper grade, or whatever they want. Means absolutely nothing when it comes to the quality you will receive.
 
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