SKS

[claymore504]

Prices on the SKS have just been going up over the years. I was always interested in having one and kept hearing the stories of people getting them for around $100. Well those prices just did not exist anymore, so I picked up a Serbian police trade in about 5 years ago and glad I did.

 

[Younggun]

I have one and pretty fond of it, but no way I would ever pay todays price for one.


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[motorcarman]

Double your money?

I think I paid a little over $200 for the one I sold for $300.
I just had a duplicate Norinco and didn't need the 'more-beat-up' one.
Still have my Yugo with the grenade launcher but I need to get some schedule 20 PVC tube to make some 'fake-projectiles' to use with the blanks I bought years ago.

 

[tekiwap]

Prices on the SKS have just been going up over the years. I was always interested in having one and kept hearing the stories of people getting them for around $100. Well those prices just did not exist anymore, so I picked up a Serbian police trade in about 5 years ago and glad I did.

My first SKS was $79. My second, 30 yrs later, was $400.

 

[69ChevelleLSX]

I paid 299 for a numbers matching 1967 Sks. The other one I trade a shotgun I bought at a auction for $100. The guy paid me $200 and the sks.

 

[benenglish]

My first SKS was $79.

For mine, I was willing to take one without a bayonet so the dealer discounted it to $65 which, even back then, was good for a real Russian-built SKS.

For months afterward, my mom pestered me with "It's a dependable little rifle that shoots cheap ammo. You should go buy a dozen more."

Did I listen?

 

[zackmars]

Sks's are fun, but not really worth what they go for now.

I can never not think of the guy i once worked with who stashed one in a field during the Clinton years, only for wal mart to build a parking lot over it, lol

 

[Glenn B]

I guess I joined the SKS wagon on the late side. My first three cost $155.95 each back in November 2002, they were all Yugo 59/66 models. They were advertised as new/unissued and they looked like it when I received them. I picked out the best and sold the rest to coworkers.

The one I picked was a decent shooter too.



The next two cost a lot more. In September 2017, I got another Yugo 59/66, that one for my son cost $384.31. That price included my bid, the buyer's premium and sales tax. I got it at an auction in Geneva, NY.

The last one I purchased, also at the same auction house but in September 2018, was a Norinco. That one put me out $354.75. Nowadays, I'd consider a purchase price between $350 & $400 to be a bargain for an SKS in excellent condition, they sell for a price anywhere from $450.00 to well over $1,000.00. apiece. I was amazed at the 'sold for' prices I saw when I ran an advanced search showing those that had sold over the past year.

 

[Younggun]

Paid $200-300 for one. But it belonged to an uncle that passed away and his guns were being sent to auction so I got what I could before that happened.

Norinco with bayonet.

 

[Axxe55]

For mine, I was willing to take one without a bayonet so the dealer discounted it to $65 which, even back then, was good for a real Russian-built SKS.

For months afterward, my mom pestered me with "It's a dependable little rifle that shoots cheap ammo. You should go buy a dozen more."

Did I listen?

Years ago, an auto repair shop had a sporting goods business, a Christian book store and an antique furniture store and decided to just focus on the auto repair business and were selling all the sporting goods at deep discount. They had several crates of SKS and Mosin Nagant rifles for sale at $59 each. I sure wished I had bought a crate of each now!