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  • deemus

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    ChiComs gotta make money, too!

    I paid $69 for my Norinco SKS in the early '90s.

    It shot minute of hubcap at 200yds.

    I busted beer bottles with mine at around 80 yds. $60 back in the 80's, and if you bought a box of them, they were only $50 each.

    Remember it took most of an afternoon to get all that cosmoline off them.
     

    Vaquero

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    I busted beer bottles with mine at around 80 yds. $60 back in the 80's, and if you bought a box of them, they were only $50 each.

    Remember it took most of an afternoon to get all that cosmoline off them.
    I sat mine out in the sun in August.
    Didn't take long to clean after that.
     

    deemus

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    I sat mine out in the sun in August.
    Didn't take long to clean after that.

    Dang. Genius idea. Wish I had thought of that. I seem to remember buying them mostly in the fall / winter when the weather didn't let me roam around outside.
     

    CodyK

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    Started cleaning mine around 9 am one day. I took it to the range about 4pm. Soaked everything in mineral spirits and used a hair dryer, and the sun, to heat the stock up to get all the cosmoline out. Good thing about it, is you learn the gun pretty quick having to literally disassemble every single part. I remember I was in the garage, and I put the bolt in a vice to take it apart, and knocking that square pin out, and it skipped across the floor. Thought it was gone for sure!


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    satx78247

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    I sat mine out in the sun in August.
    Didn't take long to clean after that.

    Vaquero,

    Fwiw, I once bought a dozen SKS (Chinese) at a SC gun-show LATE on Sunday PM for 45.oo each.

    I think that that was the most difficult preservative that I've ever had to remove from any firearm.
    (It was a greenish/waxy coating that only strong detergent, degreaser & lots of boiling water would touch.)
    Took me over two hours each, over 2 weeks in the evenings..
    I wondered thereafter IF the reason for the "cut price" was that the vendor didn't want to expend the time/elbow grease to clean them up for sale.
    (CHUCKLE)

    Nonetheless, I did make a nice profit on the sales, presuming that I counted my labor as of no value.

    yours, satx
     

    skfullgun

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    I picked up a very nice Norinco at the gun show in Pasadena in the early 90's from an older gentleman walking the aisles. He said he wouldn't take a penny less than $70, so it went home with me.

    It must have been during the Clinton era, because it did not have a bayonet. A few months later, I picked up a "tent stake" for it and had to pay $20 for it.

    My brother still has it and I'm sure it hasn't been fired in 20 years.
     
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