What is the best SKS?

Buck1950 said:
You can get a Ruger Ranch in x39 for about the price of a good SKS - $600-ish.
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I just bought a CZ 600 Alpha in 7.62x39 for $600.... SKS pricing is nuts now. My best deal on a Russian SKS was $125, and on a Chicom was $75. The cheap Chicom shot the best out of all of the ones that I have owned. I wish I still had a couple so that I could cash in. I remember being able to buy a case of 10 for about $1400. $140 each and the case was free. The last time I saw an empty case for sale it was $250..... Crazy. BTW: the cases make great storage for ammo and reloading supplies. Just add a lock to the lid.
 
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david nuttall said:
can a SKS semi-auto be converted to a bolt action ?
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No idea why you'd want to do this? As noted, it would not change the classification of the firearm. If you want to do it temporarily for some weird reason, just remove the gas piston and it shouldn't cycle
 
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It doesnt take much accuracy to stike a full sized IPSC plate out to 500m. As 9 Hole Reviews proved, the SKS is plenty effective at it. I even stretched mine out to 800 yards once and was surprised by how effective it was considering the level of tech and ballistics that were at play.
 
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I used to shoot head sized rocks at 300 yards, off hand in the Sonoran desert with a Chinese SKS I legally bought in Prescott, AZ for $99 US........

The gun store guy was shaking his head that I could buy it with just my FAC and BC drivers licence while he couldn't sell the same rifle to a New Yorker.

I guestimated the distance and set the rear sight at 300.

Norinco silver box ball and I did such a lousy job of cleaning it that the Chicom cosmoline was running out of the rifle after 100 rounds.
 
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tony - The current Chinese French Ticklers are mostly 'Un-Issued' and still in Cosmoline. I got one last summer and the chrome bore was like a mirror. Still shoots like an SKS but prob a bit better than a Tula ?
 
Yugos are nice but they don’t have a chrome lined bore which is nice if your shooting corrosive and just corrosion resistance in general, prices are crazy compared to others thoe. I would go for a French tickler, I honestly think they are the most refined and they do have the smoothest action, just a little better than an Ishy produced Russian plus the ones coming in have never been issued. Second I would look for a non refurbed unissued Russian preferably post 1951 for a chrome lined bore. They often have gold bayonets, no refurb marks witch include (force matched stocks ###x,laminate stocks unless it’s a letter series with a star on left side of receiver,force matched mags, bayonet screws spiked multiple times, small square stamp on top cover, anything with bbq paint,anything with a blued bolt or bayonet except 49s with the blued spike), third I would get any Chinese military in new condition. Look for a barrel nut, commercial models will have a pinned barrel witch I would not buy personally, most Chinese besides French ticklers/arsenal 26 guns tend to not be as refined as the Russians in the milling department but you really have to look and feel the action to know what I mean, 4th any refurbished Russian in good shape with a good bore you really can’t go wrong, they did a very good job of refurbishing there rifles and they just work, they all just work.
 
The SKS was never designed to be properly bedded? You hear that on every dumb yt chan. The Yugo stocks are beautiful. They were required to stand up to launching munitions. The Yugo stocks are hard to find here in Canadaland or anywhere it seems, but they were plentiful at one time.
 
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