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.
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