[Spridgets] SKS

[Kirk Hargreaves]

Thanks for the info, very interesting stuff.  I was not aware of the
chroming involved.  Typical high quality stuff from the Chinese as they
always build stuff to the highest level of quality.  Ha ha ha.  When a
product comes from China, you always know that they take the extra steps
necessary to insure the highest quality of their goods. .  right?  LOL

I paid $99.0 for it back in the early 1990's.  They are not for sale anymore
at the gun stores.  When I got it. .  it was covered in a strange oil. .
that stuff was everywhere.

It also has a cleaning kit that hides in the butt end under a little flap
that is notorius for getting your finger stuck . . and can be pretty painful
at that.

I kick myself everytime I think about it, as mentioned before, the AK's were
selling for $350.   I wish I had been smart enough to have bought three AK's
while I was there.

But not me.  . I am the guy who chose, in the early 70's, to buy a GIbson SG
(strange model with mini humbuckers plastic covered) instead of a 1950's
Fender Telecaster that would be worth a lot of money today. .  both were
selling, at the time, for $250.0.  I guess I never see the future coming!

My son in law had it for a while and bought a thousand rounds of hollow
points.  So I now have enough lead to hold off a small army. .  for at least
a few minutes.

I guess you can take the seer out and it will fire in automatic mode?  Not
sure if I want to mess with it or how hard that is to do?

Kirk

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:03 PM, derf <derf247 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Chinese metal is quality and metal parts are well made.  The wood on
> military rifles is utilitarian, at best, and never really high
> quality.
>
> Chinese SKSs are better than others, like Yugoslavian.  Yugoslavia has
> no significant local source for chrome and did not chrome line the
> barrels and things like the Chinese.  A lot of military SKS (AK, too)
> ammo is corrosive, some more than others.
> The 7.62X39 round that SKS and AKs shoot is about equivalent to the
> common 30-30.
> For $99 in the early 90s you could get a new, Chinese SKS semi auto rifle.
> Now you can sell them for around $350.
> There were some Vietnam era red fiberglass stocks that are not pretty,
> but resilient.