SKS

>>32844155

That's a Mosin Nagant in that picture not an SKS.

>Does it predate the AK?

Yes, by a few years. They both use the same ammunition.

>SKS doesn't have a detachable magazine?

Generally speaking no, unless its been modified. It uses clips.

>It is fixed and rounds are fed downward into the attached magazine from stripper clips?

The rounds are loaded from the top. They are fed upward by the weapon's action.

>I have seen some SKS with ten round affixed magazines and some that look like 30 round? Is it still attached or is it a detachable magazine mod?

Both 30 round stripper clips and detachable magazine modifications exist, so its hard to say for sure; but if it had a star on the side of the magazine well then it was using stripper clips.

Honsetly dude, just read the wikipedia article.

>>32844155
>does it predate the AK
>Is the AK based off the SKS
Wikipedia is your friend here.

>SKS doesn't have a detachable magazine?
Not in its stock form, no. Traditionally it has a fixed magazine which is fed via stripper clips, and takes upwards to 10 rounds. It can be modified to accept a 30 round mag, depending on what you're looking for.

As for price, it depends where you are. In the US it seems that prices vary between $400 to $600 USD for most Chinese and Russian SKS. If you're a Canuck, prices drop to about $150 USD.

>Is the AK based off the SKS?

No the AK is loosely based off the German Sturmgewher

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Thanks senpai.
Those prices seem steep.
Why are the SKS's so expensive? Did the supply dry up? No more being imported into the U.S.?

>>32844214
you might as well say it's "loosely based off" the garand

>>32844155
>SKS doesn't have a detachable magazine
I've seen a Norinco that took AK mags, wish I would have bought it

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>>32844212
tfw $275 beater Yugo less than 4 months ago that works fine
Minnesota LGS's 10/10

>>32844223
While I don't know the specifics, its been mostly due to import laws between Russia and the USA vs the import laws between Russia and Canada. Whether those import laws will change now that President Trump is in power, who knows, but at the moment the price is higher.

That said, if what >>32844271 says is true, if you look in the right spots you could probably find a half decent one for a cheaper price. Just depends on your luck and what's available in the area.

OP you are late to the SKS party by a couple decades. In the eighties they were $80-100, nineties they were $150-200, 2000's they were around $250, now they are $300-450. This pricing is for the most common Chinese sks rifles. The Russian rifles are 10-20% more. Yugo rifles were a little cheaper.

I am in my thirties so this is based on my dad's experience and mine. He bought me a brand new factory /26\ spike bayonet rifle for $75 when I was a little kid. First center fire rifle.

The others on the board have covered the basics. I've had a few of them and not one has liked the aftermarket 20-30 round mags. Don't try to make it into an AK. For the same money you can just get a WASR AK and have cheap mags that work.

Basically they are great if you are trying to get something unique. If you want a shtf rifle or whatever just get the AK or even an AR.

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>>32844155
google.com
wikipedia.com

are you fucking illiterate?

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when the slavshit guns give you the power of three stripes

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>>32844182
You know, I have some respect for some of those dindus. They keep their weapons relatively well maintained and actually need them to fight off the local wildlife and occasional raiders.

A gun couldn't ask for a better life.

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>>32844982
>well maintained

>>32844982
I feel the same, she even decorated the sling with some shells and gave the semi-pistol grip a bracelet. I find it /k/ute.

Should I buy a yugo sks from j &g for $469? I really want one but that price seems pretty steep

>>32844155
Please rephrase your thesis in a not-retarded fashion.

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>>32844982
>Well maintained

>>32845278
That is steep, found a couple yugos on GB for sub $400

http://www.gunbroker.com/item/617356157

http://www.gunbroker.com/item/617096452

http://www.gunbroker.com/item/616406180

http://www.gunbroker.com/item/616837264

>>32844155
>redpill
Christ you're a faggot.

>>32844182
>What're you looking at smooth skin?

My local gun store/trading post had a Ruskie SKS for 400 dollars one day. I regret not getting it. It looked in good condition as well.

>>32844155
the sks was obsolete when it came out and was replaced a couple years later with the ak47. Its an ok rifle if your into collecting old stuff but with ar15s so cheap nowadays theres no reason to get one outside of collector appeal.

>>32845427
the post was about tribal shepherd's gun, not some nigger's genocidal gun

>>32844997
yes that gun is pretty well maintained. i dont see any rust and the stock is in good condition.

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How does it work with the removable mags? I think about buying one in the summer (if the EU hasn't banned everything until then) and from what I've seen there are some from promag and tapco available, is the installation simple?
Also what about scopes, there are some military ones from Belarussia for ~300€?

>>32847083
Bubba no

>>32847344
I know, I know, it was only for shtf
Since loading strips go for like 25 for 10€ might just stay with them

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>>32847083
extra mags for the sks are stupid as fuck. for one the majority of them dont or barely work. then just look at the damn thing no way you are carrying multiple of these bitches comfortably.

>>32844246
I bought one of these. SKS Sporter. Fun little gun.

>>32847083
Only optic that should be put on an SKS is a PU using a nugget siderail.

>>32844214

The sks shares a common action with the STG, tilting bolt, whereas the AK is completely different, being a rotating bolt firearm. The AK is shaped a bit like the STG, but that's about all they have in common.

>>32844246
Why do people want to buy an SKS with a detachable magazine when you can get an AK for the same price? At this point, SKS's are really only viable for the coolness/historical value unless you're Canadian.

>>32852862
Because they are sexy as fuck and built like tanks.

>>32853280
>built like tanks
>sexy as fuck
Which of these does the AK not satisfy?

>>32853326
AK is easier to jam. SKS is more of closed system.

That said, people should still buy the fucking AK.

>>32844155
You god damn fucking autist. If you can come on /k/ and spend 10 minutes typing out all of that verbal diarrhea you just wrote, surely you can take 5 minutes out of your day to searh wikipedia you complete mongoloid. Please kill yourself in a house fire

>>32844214
hello new friend

>>32844182
>>32844982
Tribal africans take amazing care of everything they own.

They're incredibly resourceful because they dont get much, and often have master craftmen and women in their midst.

>>32844982
Only the inner city ones are dindus. Actual Africans are usually pretty cool, at least the few I've met.

>>32844246
> mfw passed on an sks with detachable ak mags for 500 at a gun show no less a week ago

Feels bad man

>>32854529
not worth the price

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>>32844422
/26\ is love and life. Mines made in '67

Australian here. My dad bought an SKS at a clearing sale for something like a couple hundred about a year before they were banned. They were pretty popular with farmers and pretty cheap too, a bunch of surplus was brought in I think in the late 80s from some Asian country.

>all politicians are bastards

>>32844449
>wikipedia.com

>>32854855
I hope he didn't lose it in a tragic boating accident. I hear there were a lot of those in Australia around that time.

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>tfw no bayonet lug

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>>32853326

That was my question. I own a Norinco MAK-90 AK that I love to fucking death, and I wanted to get an SKS to see what makes them so special.

Is the SKS more accurate?
What is the benefit of an SKS over an AK?
Lighter weight?
A scout rifle versus a battle rifle?

>>32855160
SKS are fun to shoot and a neat little package. I like shooting mine more than my AK. They used to be cheap, too.
But the AK replaced the SKS for good reason. Any advantages to the SKS, such as marginally higher muzzle velocity, are far outweighed by the advantages the AK bring to the table. It's the superior weapon in almost all respects.

>>32845427
I'm pretty sure that was a poacher's gun.

I live in CA and not a lot of storage space. I'd like to get one rifle. I'm not really interested in SHTF scenarios. What's the current best balance between price (including price of ammo), reliability and general fun? Down for getting wood if that's the answer.

>>32846588

>>32855002
Same poster here. Is there any way to buy a replacement part so I can attatch a bayonet or will the ATF shoot my doggo if I try?

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>>32844982
Actual africans, from actual Africa, are pretty much all bro-tier. Maybe its the shitty living conditions, maybe its the homogenous race, maybe its the fact that they shipped half of the unruly to the americas.

America has a way of deforming every culture that sets foot in it. Spaniards turned into either wetbacks or cartel thugs. Italians turned into whatever the fuck guidos are. Perfectly good africans kill eachother on the streets and walk around half naked shaking guns. Fuck, even the british. They spawned normal americans, and then they devolved into overprotective soccer moms and deadbeat obese drunks.

I dont know how you guys do it. Its like a fucking cursed continent.

>>32844982
Not all black people are niggers, but all niggers are black people

>>32853326
A detachable mag sks is built better than an AK at the same price point.

>>32845427
Does it work better than an AR will ever do in those conditions? If yes, like in your picture, then it is well maintained.

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>we AK nao..

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>>32857319

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>>32857327

>>32857327
I want the sbm just because it looks fucking retarded

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>>32857327
God damn I want an sks-30 now

>>32857236

This a Crock of shit. I live in South Africa and I have travel to 9 other African counties and pretty the same shit every were maybe to lesser extent Namibia and Botswana. But Bro-tier ? Fuck no!

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>>32855002
>>32857145
I feel your pain bro. Unless you live in commie state it shouldn't be a problem. Here's someone selling the part you need:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SKS-Russian-Front-Sight-Bayonet-Lug-Assembly-EARLY-TYPE-/222392170635?
Too bad he won't send it to Europe.

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>>32857327
I want the JBS-53
Or the SVS-30 since I have a hard on for Lee enfields
Also..
>the Canadian AK...

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>>32857379
>>32857336

>>32857345
>not bro-tier
as "bro-tier" as a country or ethnicity can be. Which is almost none, to be fair.
You could say ireland is pretty bro, but a friend of mine got a vertebra dislocated by a (sober) irish guy with a metal chair because "he wanted to start a fight lmao"
Same goes to pretty much anywhere else. As countries go, most of africa is pretty neat.

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>>32857386
You're welcome for the sweet SKS variant dump btw

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>>32844971
>2016 AD
>Not painting racing stripes on yourself for +10 agility

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>>32857395

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Can someone who owns SKS please measure for me and post the exact dimensions of the bayonet lug? I need dimensions of that hook I marked on pic related.

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>>32857433
No..desu.

>>32857394
>You could say ireland is pretty bro, but a friend of mine got a vertebra dislocated by a (sober) irish guy with a metal chair because "he wanted to start a fight lmao"

Africa is mostly shit, ever been to the DRC?Europe and the US is nicer by a mile, I must say Miami sucked ball when I was there.
Also not much gun culture outside of Namibia and South Africa.

>>32847083
>EU banning guns.
I don't think so Tim.

>>32853957

Dont you have a sociology professor's feminine penis to suck off Brittany?

>>32853957
>and often have master craftmen and women in their midst.

That's why they craft so much advanced amazing stuff right ? Lmao

>>32857236
>Actual africans, from actual Africa, are pretty much all bro-tier.

lol no, go to say, France and you will see that africans from actual africa (only one or two generations away from it) are just the same shitheads than your american niggers

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>>32857336
Well well well..
look what the fuck I just found!

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>>32857588
How the fuck did a thread about glorious Canadian AK turn into talking about fucking uncivilized savage redguards???

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>>32857619
I feel like I'm finding gold here..

>>32857368
I live in Maryland. So it's a pretty Commie state.

>>32844155
>Does it predate the AK?
By two years for adoption. 1945 for the SKS and 1947 for the AK-47.
>Is the AK based off the SKS?
They share ammunition, that's it.
>SKS doesn't have a detachable magazine?
There was a Chinese modernized SKS that took detachable 30 round box magazines, but I hear they are unreliable. I think Tapco or someone made a kit to use AK magazines.
>It is fixed and rounds are fed downward into the attached magazine from stripper clips?
Yes, most are.
>I have seen some SKS with ten round affixed magazines and some that look like 30 round? Is it still attached or is it a detachable magazine mod?
Those would be one of the aforementioned detachable conversions.

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>>32857648

Here in PA we have active AL listings from 375 (chinese) to 700 (russian, sounds really expensive to me). The average for a yugo is 400 (with 20 round mags). I'm going to get an AK instead, just waiting to see how all of this shit with the sanctions pans out before I jump. I know this isn't a bpard for politics but does anyone have insight on this?

>>32857817
The sanctions have nothing to do with it, they simply don't have any more SKSes left.

Are the TAPCO brand stocks any good? How do they handle the heat from dumping rounds all day?

>>32857968
No

>>32857368
Thank you for the link by the way. I have a chink SKS. Would that be interchangeable with it?

>>32845761
>>Redpill
Not even in OP, maybe you're the faggot?

>>32858458
Not sure, but I guess you should try to get Chinese ones. I've seen some on GunBroker:
http://www.gunbroker.com/item/597440221

Also, here's some info about bayonet lugs:
http://www.yooperj.com/SKS-4.htm

>>32859331
Alright thanks m8.

Guys. As a (blade)smith, I always wondered - how crappy is the SKS bayonet? Can it actually be used as a half-decent knife, provided you can take it off? Anyone sharpened it? Does it hold an edge? And what's it made of? I heard some dude say it's aluminium, but it looks like stainless steel to me. Info would be greatly appreciated

>>32846588
unless you live in a shithole state like taxachusetts or cuckfornia

>>32844155
Found a $250 SKS on Armslist. Should I jump on it?

>>32862027
yes

>>32862027
DA, TAVARISH! GET THE GLORIOUS RIFLE OF COMRADE SERGEI GAVRILOVIČ SIMONOV! IS GOOD RIFLE. WILL BE TRUE TO YOU. WILL NOT CHEAT ON YOU. IS FAITHFUL RAIFU
AAAH, MOTHERLAND!

>>32862027
Fuck yeah. Does it list the country that it came from?

My buddy has one. Won't eat tula. Nicer brass stuff is fine. He has never cleaned it.

>>32862505
No. There's not even a picture of it so I'm a little unsure. But I figure parts should be cheap, so if I need to fix something I probably can.

Now all I need to do is hope my tax return shows up before someone else buys it...

Check out the archangel 35rd SKS mag if you are looking for detachable. The SKS mag release is clumsy for 30 round mag, since it was intended to drop the floor out of the 10 round mag. The archangel has a lever on the mag itself to bypass the release. It has really worked well, others have had good luck from what I have read.

>>32844155
>I want to buy a cheap one to bury with some ammo indawoods but everywhere seems sold out.

Classic Firearms has some Yugoslavian ones in stock right now.

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>>32855002
I know that feel bro

>>32857327
>SVS-30

want

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>>32857327
>SVS-30

>>32844246
My understanding is that a SKS pattern rifle that accepts AK47 magazines is called a SKK?

>>32844422
1980s 100$ = about 315$ 2017

... So the price has basically kept pace with inflation....

If you're in Canada there's no better rifle for the money.
If you're a meribro I don't see the point.

>>32865435
It's an SKS-M or SKS-D.

Unless you have a boner for the aesthetics of an SKS the AK is a better rifle. Lighter, more modular, mag fed, and equally as accurate (especially veprs). They're not inherently more accurate, it's just more shootable (typically longer sight radius, heavier, more comfy to shoot from a bench position). The SKS is still a good range or backup rifle. It'd be fucking blasphemy to bury a nice one innawoods. Anything you choose to cache should be a beat up POS that's nearing the end of its service life anyway. Go with a shitty Yugo or Chinese.

>>32866348
It's still a really great rifle, even if you are in America. I think it's way more fun to shoot than my ar-15. I know everyone will say that the ar is "better", but does that really matter when it's just getting used at the range?

>>32864656
>>32864857
>>32857340
Yeaaaahsss! yeaaaaaahsss! Dark energon! We need the Sks-enfield for energon!!

>>32864122
Thanks, that's good to know. If I get one I'll want detachable, but I've heard bad things about Tapcos

>>32857236
Have you ever considered your closed worldview as a factor to the conclusion you just made there?

>>32866348
This, I paid more for my crate of ammo than for the rifle, which was $150 in beaver money.
That's what, $7.25 American?

Having owned one and fired many.

They suck.

Minute of torso accuracy.
Heavy.
Slow to reload.

Crudely made.

>>32844155
>Redpill
What you should be saying is this
>Please spoonfeed wikipedia tier information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKS