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Offline IamSalem

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Re: "I like guns, I like guns, I like guns"
« Reply #120 on: December 29, 2010, 06:12:58 PM »
Hey Serenity!

I just got a Yugo SKS for Christmas as my first rifle (not counting my 22 and musket) and I have to say, it's a blast! (No pun intended!)

The lack of Chrome lined barrel isnt really a hinder unless A) you are going to be marching around in a hot and humid jungle B) not able to fully clean your rifle after shooting (because you're marching around in a jungle!). I would take Nef's advice about the barrel being pocked and such, and would thoroughly look over the rifle before you purchased it. Mine is in relatively good shape and fun fun to shoot! The rifle grenade attachment is a bit pointless (well, for some  :devil) but it is a neat addition and a good conversation starter! Also, if it is fully cleaned of the cosmoline already, then that is a deal, as I just went through the 3 hour nightmare that is a fully cosmo coated SKS the other day. I wouldnt bump the sks off your list just yet.


Though the Mosin is fun to shoot too... :rolleyes:
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Re: "I like guns, I like guns, I like guns"
« Reply #121 on: December 29, 2010, 06:17:03 PM »
Quote from: IamSalem on December 29, 2010, 06:12:58 PM
Hey Serenity!

I just got a Yugo SKS for Christmas as my first rifle (not counting my 22 and musket) and I have to say, it's a blast! (No pun intended!)

The lack of Chrome lined barrel isnt really a hinder unless A) you are going to be marching around in a hot and humid jungle B) not able to fully clean your rifle after shooting (because you're marching around in a jungle!). I would take Nef's advice about the barrel being pocked and such, and would thoroughly look over the rifle before you purchased it. Mine is in relatively good shape and fun fun to shoot! The rifle grenade attachment is a bit pointless (well, for some  :devil) but it is a neat addition and a good conversation starter! Also, if it is fully cleaned of the cosmoline already, then that is a deal, as I just went through the 3 hour nightmare that is a fully cosmo coated SKS the other day. I wouldnt bump the sks off your list just yet.


Though the Mosin is fun to shoot too... :rolleyes:

Good to know! Additionally, my options may continue to expand, as I just made $200 today for next to nothing, so my budget is now up into the $550 range, lol. I appreciate the advice all!
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Re: "I like guns, I like guns, I like guns"
« Reply #122 on: December 29, 2010, 06:23:04 PM »
Quote from: Serenity on December 29, 2010, 03:56:43 PM
As always, great advise Nef!

The store I'm buying from has these in-stock in Austin, so they're TX legal, and they DO have a chinese SKS in stock as well. He told me it was a paratrooper carbine, (He also said the chinese didn't really have paratroopers, it was just a shorter weapon). Personally, I just don't want a chinese weapon, lol. Any soviet country would be preferred. 

The big difference between the Chinese SKS and all the other countries is that not all Chinese SKS are military surplus rifles. The demand for them in the US grew so much that the Chinese started to commercially build the SKS when the military surplus rifles dried out. These came into the US as all sorts of models and variants to spice up the current SKS selection, some were modified in China but most were done here in the US.

The "Paratrooper" is a hot little piece in collectors terms. There are two main types of "Paras" one has the full length gas tube. I have a commercially built Norinco SKS-S it can be identified with shortened gas tube and I love it. If it is the same or less, price or condition wise as that Yugo; I would buy that in a heartbeat.

Quote from: Serenity on December 29, 2010, 03:56:43 PM
Weight isn't a concern (I can call a day at the range extra PT, lol) but I'm not sure about that chrome lined barrel (I stumbled on the info that the Yugoslav's aren't chrome lined and why, but nothing said what effect that had). So what is the actual practical ramification of a non-chromed barrel?

Chrome line barrels were created to keep the battlefield from destroying your battle rifle.  ;)
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Re: "I like guns, I like guns, I like guns"
« Reply #123 on: December 29, 2010, 06:25:54 PM »
Quote from: Serenity on December 29, 2010, 06:17:03 PM
Good to know! Additionally, my options may continue to expand, as I just made $200 today for next to nothing, so my budget is now up into the $550 range, lol. I appreciate the advice all!


ignore this post  :noid
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Re: "I like guns, I like guns, I like guns"
« Reply #124 on: December 29, 2010, 06:26:46 PM »
Quote from: Serenity on December 29, 2010, 06:17:03 PM
Good to know! Additionally, my options may continue to expand, as I just made $200 today for next to nothing, so my budget is now up into the $550 range, lol. I appreciate the advice all!

You're in Glock range now. :rock
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Re: "I like guns, I like guns, I like guns"
« Reply #125 on: December 29, 2010, 06:27:30 PM »
Quote from: Jayhawk on December 29, 2010, 06:26:46 PM
You're in Glock range now. :rock


Glock made a rifle!  :O







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Re: "I like guns, I like guns, I like guns"
« Reply #126 on: December 29, 2010, 06:31:13 PM »
Quote from: Nefarious on December 29, 2010, 06:23:04 PM
The big difference between the Chinese SKS and all the other countries is that not all Chinese SKS are military surplus rifles. The demand for them in the US grew so much that the Chinese started to commercially build the SKS when the military surplus rifles dried out. These came into the US as all sorts of models and variants to spice up the current SKS selection, some were modified in China but most were done here in the US.

The "Paratrooper" is a hot little piece in collectors terms. There are two main types of "Paras" one has the full length gas tube. I have a commercially built Norinco SKS-S it can be identified with shortened gas tube and I love it. If it is the same or less, price or condition wise as that Yugo; I would buy that in a heartbeat.

Is the para-rifle something I could turn around and re-sell?

It's probably quite silly, I'll admit, but I just have absolutely no desire to own anything manufactured in Asia. It just doesn't appeal to me as an item.
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Re: "I like guns, I like guns, I like guns"
« Reply #127 on: December 29, 2010, 06:41:14 PM »
Quote from: IamSalem on December 29, 2010, 06:27:30 PM

Glock made a rifle!  :O







 :noid

I'd buy one... are you not 21 Serenity?
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Re: "I like guns, I like guns, I like guns"
« Reply #128 on: December 29, 2010, 06:43:50 PM »
Quote from: Jayhawk on December 29, 2010, 06:41:14 PM
I'd buy one... are you not 21 Serenity?

No sir, sadly I'm barely legal...
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Re: "I like guns, I like guns, I like guns"
« Reply #129 on: December 29, 2010, 06:46:22 PM »
Gotcha, and I understand you're looking for something with some historical value.  Someday you'll own a Glock.  :aok
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Re: "I like guns, I like guns, I like guns"
« Reply #130 on: December 29, 2010, 06:53:29 PM »
Quote from: Jayhawk on December 29, 2010, 06:46:22 PM
Gotcha, and I understand you're looking for something with some historical value.  Someday you'll own a Glock.  :aok

lol. Only after a 1911 ;)
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Re: "I like guns, I like guns, I like guns"
« Reply #131 on: December 29, 2010, 06:57:06 PM »
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Re: "I like guns, I like guns, I like guns"
« Reply #132 on: December 29, 2010, 07:06:13 PM »
Quote from: Serenity on December 29, 2010, 06:31:13 PM
Is the para-rifle something I could turn around and re-sell?

It's probably quite silly, I'll admit, but I just have absolutely no desire to own anything manufactured in Asia. It just doesn't appeal to me as an item.

People sell guns after they buy them? :headscratch:  ;)

No difference to me, just another variant. If its the ethics thing try to understand all of these rifles wear some kind of badge of tyranny or oppression, some also rock the badge of freedom and revolution. Just so much history in every variant outside of the Chinese commercial variants as I mentioned.

Russians had the oppression in Gulags and secret police in East Germany, Romanians have the 1989 Revolution where they drug Ceauşescu out into the street an shot him against a wall. The ethnic clashes in the Balkans, and the worst of all being the Chinese Genocides.

The SKS has seen it all, it's got that been there done that feeling for sure.

If you really want to buy an SKS... Any SKS... Read this BBS... It is a dedicated SKS forum. http://www.sksboards.com/smf/index.php
« Last Edit: December 29, 2010, 07:08:41 PM by Nefarious »
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Re: "I like guns, I like guns, I like guns"
« Reply #133 on: December 29, 2010, 07:19:44 PM »
Quote from: Serenity on December 29, 2010, 06:31:13 PM
Is the para-rifle something I could turn around and re-sell?

It's probably quite silly, I'll admit, but I just have absolutely no desire to own anything manufactured in Asia. It just doesn't appeal to me as an item.

Russia is Asia.
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Re: "I like guns, I like guns, I like guns"
« Reply #134 on: December 29, 2010, 07:26:17 PM »
Quote from: Tupac on December 29, 2010, 07:19:44 PM
Russia is Asia.

 :rofl

Quote from: Jayhawk on December 29, 2010, 06:41:14 PM
I'd buy one... are you not 21 Serenity?

I probably would too!
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