SKS's Looking Rough These Days

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The Kurgan

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Was at Lebaron in Mississauga today and was quite surprized to see such bottom of the barrel specimens.

Gritty, painted, mis-matched mags (* though pinned at follower pivot), and some had corroded bayonets.

Nice for a truck, trunk, or RV.
 
Cabelas in Barrie had some rougher looking guns as well a couple weeks ago. I'm sure their getting down to the poorer inventory being imported the past while.
 
lol... I can confirm that some are finding their way here with what appears to be sand in the action... not alot but you can feel it.
 
The Kurgan said:
Just realized this should be in the Red Rifles sub forum.
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I think its arguable that discussions on the SKS-45 belong more in the milsurp subforum than they do the red rifle subforum.

At any rate, we were bound to reach this point sooner or later. They may have made several million of them but there eventually comes a day when the nice ones are gone and the rougher specimens are the norm. Is this that day? I wouldn't be surprised.
 
Idk I hit the jackpot at Cabelas in Calgary last November. It was a "super grade" but on sale for $250. Numbers matching, parkarized non-frankenpinned. I'm VERY happy with it. You just have to do a little leg work but there are still gems out there
 
MikeD81 said:
Idk I hit the jackpot at Cabelas in Calgary last November. It was a "super grade" but on sale for $250. Numbers matching, parkarized non-frankenpinned. I'm VERY happy with it. You just have to do a little leg work but there are still gems out there
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November 2014 as "last" November? If so, that is a long time ago. Now a days, poor examples are becoming the norm.
 
Glad I didn't get too crazy after the getting stopped getting good. Wholesale and Cabela's had supergrades on sale this weekend. Next time I am in, I will check them out.
 
MikeD81 said:
Idk I hit the jackpot at Cabelas in Calgary last November. It was a "super grade" but on sale for $250. Numbers matching, parkarized non-frankenpinned. I'm VERY happy with it. You just have to do a little leg work but there are still gems out there
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I don't recall that any SKS's were ever factory parkerized.

I remember somebody in Alberta offering that service a few years ago, but factory new SKS's are blued.
 
6MT said:
November 2014 as "last" November? If so, that is a long time ago. Now a days, poor examples are becoming the norm.
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No it was Nov 2015, just before remembrance day. I would never buy a milsurp anything sight unseen but they had half a dozzen in the racks and they let me check out each of them and pick the one I wanted. It's a '55 or '56 (dust cover only has the square with slash refurb mark, star on the side of the receiver) and its a letter gun. I'm 99% sure its parkarized because its not shinny enough to be blued but its too even and clean to be paint. If you want I can email or post pics.
 
MikeD81 said:
No it was Nov 2015, just before remembrance day. I would never buy a milsurp anything sight unseen but they had half a dozzen in the racks and they let me check out each of them and pick the one I wanted. It's a '55 or '56 (dust cover only has the square with slash refurb mark, star on the side of the receiver) and its a letter gun. I'm 99% sure its parkarized because its not shinny enough to be blued but its too even and clean to be paint. If you want I can email or post pics.
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AFAIK, the '55/'56 rifles all have the star on the side of the receiver.

I had one that was unissued and it was blued.

It actually had some bluing discolouration where the strap rested across the receiver in the crate.

Your rifle may well be parkerized, but it is not completely original if it's been refurbished.

It still may be a nice rifle though, I just think that they're taking liberty by calling it "super-grade."

Pictures would be interesting though. Just be sure to obliterate the serial numbers with a photo editor.

FWIW, I also had four refurbished Russian SKS's and they all had that black BBQ paint on them.
 
Well, the people who turned their noses up at any SKS will be able to gloat now. :p

The ones I get for resale are getting scruffier, for sure. I managed to keep a nice matched refurb (as matched as a refurb gets anyway), a nice laminate, and a new Chinese. I also have a Russian one that a good friend gave me for standing up at his wedding, and a Polish with the grenade doohinkey on the muzzle end.

I sold a pile of SKS's. Some nice ones at the start. The Chinese ones were the easiest, next to the ones I found that had the steel polished and the stocks nicely refinished. I wish I would have kept one of those.
 
They weren't parkerized. It's a similar look/texture to parkerizing so that's what people default to calling the finish.
 
I don't get into the city much but got a chance to do the SKS tour of Winnipeg vendors today. Nothing even remotely interesting, even on sale. Picked up a couple cases of ammo along the way and a very pretty 1936 hex 91/30 - at CT of all places.
 
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