Whats the most expensive sks you ever saw for sale

I'll chime in and say that I love all my SKS's and some I "overpaid" for, but couldn't be happier. My main shooter SKS achieves consistent 4-5 inch groups at 100 yards. That is with iron sights and decent Prvi commercial ammo. The Czech surplus stuff gets close. Maybe I got an exceptional shooter?
 
What Im seeing here is proof that the "string theory" is accurate. Cos in some other universe SKS's are worth their weight in gold and due to some flux in the space,time doo dah , they end up on the EE
Mine is priceless...too much fun and the wife peed a bit when she first shot it :))
I bet theresone out there with at least a thousand bucks worth of optics on it.
 
Travis Bickle said:
As for the most expensive SKS? I have read articles and seen pictures of North Vietnamese SKS's captured and brought back in the Vietnam War going for $2K in the states. Probably the most rare and expensive example out there. But imagine the history!
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In US in 1994, a certain SKS captured in Vietnam was sold with $800.
It had a Soviet stamp (Tula, IIRC), defaced,
a chinese arsenal stamp, defaced/obliterated,
and a North Vietnam stamp.
The condition was listed as well used.
The absolute same gun re-surfaced in 2001 and
sold at an auction with the starting price of $19k.


The most expensive I have seen in Canada
was not so many years ago, bought with $9000.
It was in fact a long barrel semiauto AK mistakenly registered as SKS.
 
Dr.Lector said:
In US in 1994, a certain SKS captured in Vietnam was sold with $800.
It had a Soviet stamp (Tula, IIRC), defaced,
a chinese arsenal stamp, defaced/obliterated,
and a North Vietnam stamp.
The condition was listed as well used.
The absolute same gun re-surfaced in 2001 and
sold at an auction with the starting price of $19k.
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Wow! I guess history is worth $19k to someone.

Dr.Lector said:
The most expensive I have seen in Canada
was not so many years ago, bought with $9000.
It was in fact a long barrel semiauto AK mistakenly registered as SKS.
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One of those old Norinco NHM-91's? Was that error ever rectified or did it "disappear?"
 
Andurp said:
One of those old Norinco NHM-91's? Was that error ever rectified or did it "disappear?"
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IIRC, it looked older than that, and I don't think it was a Norinco.
On paper, it was SKS Tula.
The physical gun, AK long barrel, factory semiauto (not converted),
might have been Russian (my wild guess, from what I remember),
because, from the little I know, most Chinese serial numbers
would not be similar to Russian AK serials (that would possibly have
some Russian characters, Russian factory markings., etc
and would make it more likely to be misidentified as SKS).
The key words here are "my wild guess".


I don't know what happened with the gun.
I never seen the buyer nor the seller before nor after that.
Today, with the LGR dead (or so they say),
if still at large, that gun would be just an illegally owned prohib.
 
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Dr.Lector said:
In US in 1994, a certain SKS captured in Vietnam was sold with $800.
It had a Soviet stamp (Tula, IIRC), defaced,
a chinese arsenal stamp, defaced/obliterated,
and a North Vietnam stamp.
The condition was listed as well used.
The absolute same gun re-surfaced in 2001 and
sold at an auction with the starting price of $19k.


The most expensive I have seen in Canada
was not so many years ago, bought with $9000.
It was in fact a long barrel semiauto AK mistakenly registered as SKS.
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Jesus Fack! $19K!? :eek:

I was also under the impression that there are actual SKS's with neither Soviet or Chicom markings but simply have the "Star with a 1 in the center" and a serial number starting with either 61, 62, 63, 64 being the year they produced. These being the most rare of any SKS that are actually out there floating around.

Apparently these were the ones suspected to be made in North Vietnam. Serial numbers past 64 were no longer being found as they started mass bombing of the country and it's manufacturing plants in 65. Apparently lol who knows with information on the internet :(
 
The Kurgan said:
I'll chime in and say that I love all my SKS's and some I "overpaid" for, but couldn't be happier. My main shooter SKS achieves consistent 4-5 inch groups at 100 yards. That is with iron sights and decent Prvi commercial ammo. The Czech surplus stuff gets close. Maybe I got an exceptional shooter?
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Thanks! I was thinking of getting one but you just talked me out of it. I'd rather shoot my cooey if that's a good sks group!
 
Travis Bickle said:
Jesus Fack! $19K!? :eek:

I was also under the impression that there are actual SKS's with neither Soviet or Chicom markings but simply have the "Star with a 1 in the center" and a serial number starting with either 61, 62, 63, 64 being the year they produced. These being the most rare of any SKS that are actually out there floating around.

Apparently these were the ones suspected to be made in North Vietnam. Serial numbers past 64 were no longer being found as they started mass bombing of the country and it's manufacturing plants in 65. Apparently lol who knows with information on the internet :(
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No, this is correct. It's beyond speculation and has been proven to be the case. They are indeed some of the rarest SKS rifles in existence, although that may be tied with the East German ones. After the Americans bombed the crap out of North Vietnam and destroyed the manufacturing capability of the north, they just used Chinese and Russian SKS rifles that were supplied to them by the trainload.

Many SKS rifles are what I call "artificially rare." An example being North Korean ones: there is a ton of them around in Africa (the only place on earth outside of Asia that will actually do business with North Korea for things like arms and military supplies) and North Korea, but the problem is that John from Marstar can't exactly take a plane to North Korea and work out a deal to bring a couple thousand of them back for us. There's tons around, getting our greasy mitts on them is the where the problem lies. This is why I want North Korea to collapse quickly, I want their SKS's and other milsurp they have slathered in cosmoline in a bunker somewhere! The dust cover markings on the North Korean SKS always looked the coolest to me.
 
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Andurp said:
No, this is correct. It's beyond speculation and has been proven to be the case. They are indeed some of the rarest SKS rifles in existence, although that may be tied with the East German ones. After the Americans bombed the crap out of North Vietnam and destroyed the manufacturing capability of the north, they just used Chinese and Russian SKS rifles that were supplied to them by the trainload.

Many SKS rifles are what I "artificially rare." An example being North Korean ones: there is a ton of them around in Africa (the only place on earth outside of Asia that will actually do business with North Korea for things like arms and military supplies) and North Korea, but the problem is that John from Marstar can't exactly take a plane to North Korea and work out a deal to bring a couple thousand of them back for us. There's tons around, getting our greasy mitts on them is the where the problem lies. This is why I want North Korea to collapse quickly, I want their SKS's and other milsurp they have slathered in cosmoline in a bunker somewhere! The dust cover markings on the North Korean SKS always looked the coolest to me.
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Far out!

I always found the whole history and lore behind the North Vietnamese SKS's and their place in history fascinating.

Would love to own one myself.

Of course I would have to chop off the bayonet, krylon the stock and put a $20 red dot on it to up the value a bit you know f:P:
 
07blackwater said:
Thanks! I was thinking of getting one but you just talked me out of it. I'd rather shoot my cooey if that's a good sks group!
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Yeah theyre not tack drivers, nature of the beast. Nor is an AK, its not what they were designed for. For their intended purpose they are excellent rifles. But hitting center of mass of a man out to 300 yds isnt what most Canadian shooters are striving for. They are nearly bombproof and will run thru hell and high water, steal the flag and make it back home still kickin but that is their magic trick. Accuracy is not. The SVT 40 on the other hand is rumored to be a little tack driver, though more expensive to feed. The CZ-858 is noticeably better than an SKS with milsurp ammo and well worth the extra money, unless all you want is a stick that goes bang 500-1000 times per range trip for nothing more than jerking the trigger off. The 858 can hold 3-4 MOA on most milsurp ammo.
 
haven't been able to find another one of thoes !
so i guess they're kinda hard to find...anyone got one for sale !?...loll
but still worth 200$
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she's shot over 3000 corrosive rnds and still goes bang every time

this is @ 75 yards

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Lost...again said:
Just wandering how much some fully tricked out SKS's are selling for......could be fun, bearing in mind that there are so many bits to bolt on.
Or failing that tell us how much YOU have tied up in yours, ya dont have to tell us who you are, God knows we dont want the wifey to know eh.
Ive got 1100 tied up in my 400 dollar 305..stupid ...maybe but Im happy :)
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Don’t know about the most expensive, but they seems to be really getting hosed on a regular basis in the States,, $400 is the starting point for a beat up well used SKS.
 
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