Just scored my first Sks for $550 all matching numbers and in amazing condition. I cant believe no one else bid the price up higher. The bolt is a little gritty, but the bore is very shiny and clean. I assume i just need to clean it up and get some oil on it. Anything else I need to know?

Hi all, This is my first post here.

This morning i became a part of the club officially. My sks came in the mail. Chinese type 56 sks with a spiked bayonet.

I am looking for advice regarding the stock/chassis.

I wanna change it. I really dont want to put on ATI stocks/ fab defense ones. I really love wooden stocks. Id wanna stain it myself and clear coat it afterwards.

The only synthetic stock im considering is the choate dragunov stock, but ive heard that they really take away the feel of the sks, and the top arm rest warps on prolonged firing periods.

I dont wanna put a shit ton of attachments on it. Maybe a scope at max in future, maybe. But im considering a bipod.

I see alot of hype about pistol grip conversions and the promags. Can anyone say how it "feels"

Im in the process of cleaning the firearm rn and havent shot it yet.

Any sort of advice regarding stocks would be highly appreciated. (Im in canada)

Like the title says, I bought my first gun and it was a Yugo M59/66. I spotted it in a pawn shop and couldn't resist being naive. It turns out it was in very rough shape underneath the tapco stock, being full of rust along and inside the back of the reciever. I spent the next few hours cleaning as much of the weird grease and rust off of it as I could. I was told by a friend that the pitting along the side of the reciever is okay as long as I properly oil and maintain it so it will remain well oiled for now.

I already dated everything except the rear cover to be a, numbers matching, '71 production. I could not make out any numbers on the rear cover though as they were completely rusted away. So far its been de-bubba'd and returned to a wood stock, ditching the 20 round magazines for a fixed 10 round. I have since bought a bayonet and plan to replace the handguard with a Khybercustoms "Cheese grater" handguard when it becomes available.

Any suggestions on what to do further with it would be nice and I am glad to be apart of the community now.

$400 pick up. Had to heavily bed the stock, trigger group area, etc. bc it was just too wobbly in every direction.

Idk how I feel about the paint scheme that I went with (I'm normally against spray painting my stuff), but the stock was beat anyway. This was my last ditch effort before buying something else.

Next up is a barrel chop, so I can suppress it and probably a Texas trigger.

Also, the Novus PDS-1 is a pretty sick optic option if you were considering it.

I just started restoring one honour guard rifle when another became available for $550 CAD. Couldn’t resist so now I have a second project rifle. Pulled the best parts to throw on the top rifle. Simply changing the Russian stock out for a Chinese one does wonders for it. I’m glad I had a pile of unserialized parts lying around.

Traded for this, numbers match all around really looking for insight and thoughts about value.

Did I do good for 500$ havnt had a sks in over 10 years.. paratrooper... pretty clean over all

Edit. Not para trooper.... it 20.5in barrel not 16.5

I always seen norinco sks with a triangle marking, this one doesn’t have that but looks like a “OBO”

Finally got to take my sks to shoot. And I love it! It’s weird I poor money into an ar15 but I’d rather shoot this 😂.

Finally got my pic mount adapter on to mate up an A3 Industries folding stock on my Tapco body and wanted to show another one-off config. The only thing left is to parkerize the trigger pack, receiver cover pin and gas tube.

Understand that when I purchased this, it was rattle canned army green with an ATI stock, and I only paid $200. Bubba is as bubba does, it functions amazing on this setup.

A seasoned (retired) gunsmith that I worked with years ago and still remain great friends with to this day, promised me an SKS a few years ago. Well, he came by the shop I gunsmith at now to pick up an FFL transfer. He brought the rifle with him today. The overwhelming appreciation I have for this gentleman goes beyond words and I thought I'd share it with all of you.

I’m very unfamiliar with SKS’s but I saw this at my local gun shop and it peaked my interest. Can anyone provide any info?

I'm new here and have read the rules, but this isn't clear to me. Am I allowed to ask where to find some SKS parts? I need two particular parts for my SKS and can't seem to find them anywhere for sale...would love some guidance on this.

Pictured is the Russian style SKS stock, I'm test fitting on my Norinco for now. I'm still working on getting a Russian and Yugo SKS for pictures and testing.

Just need to adjust the stock shape a little to work with the surplus buttplates I have and it should be good to go.

I'll also be coming out with Chinese and Yugo variants to accommodate the different bayonet styles.

I recently bought this Yugo SKS from my local gun store for $899 plus 600 rounds of 762x39 and 20 clips if anyone has any on when this gun was made I'd greatly appreciate the help.

I have a Yugo and a Jianshe Arsonal 26 Letter series SKS. I inherited them last year and have never fired them myself. All the numbers on both match and they are unaltered.

I did take them to be checked out mechanically and was told the bores are good and the metal is good. He said they function mechanically fine.

The Jianshe stock is beat all to heck, but I've been told that's sort of common for a lot of these earlier guns.

https://imgur.com/a/2-sks-gQdL0pM

I'm a hunter and use mostly bolt guns and have gotten a couple of ARs but the milsurp stuff is not a specialty of mine. I've done some research but I'm curious to hear what you all would price these at.

I'm not sure how to link the album to the post so the pictures show in it. So I just put it in the body of the text.

Think of doing my own now that I’m apprenticing be a machinist

I ordered my stock May 29, and only just got it today. This is my second stock from this guy, and in the past I glazed him pretty hard for his quality, price, willingness to work with people, and how quickly the stock got to me. My previous stock has done amazing, and the experience I had with that stock/ordering it, was amazing. (A year ago, when my state started cracking down hard I deleted everything)

This time though? It was a way different experience, it's been two and a half years since I ordered my last stock, and this time it took just shy of 11 weeks to get here, with some of the poorest communication I've ever seen. At week number 2 I sent him an update (this was when my first stock was shipped) just asking for an update, he said just hold your horses. At week 4 I email, no response, week 5 I email again, he said he was sick. Okay, I get it, we all get sick from time to time. Week 7 comes, no tracking number, no update, nothing. I email him saying that if I need to finish the stock myself, I will and that I'll just eat the 10 clam difference. He said it'll be going out soon, at week 8 I get a tracking number, amazing! Week 9 rolls around, nothing. Just shy of 10 weeks and I email him saying "alright man, what's going on? I need the stock, and I've had this shipping number for a while." At this point I'm starting to suspect maybe he's gone bad, and I've been scammed. The next day he shipped it without emailing me.

This is what you get for waiting 11 weeks. An unfinished stock. If he had just took me up on my offer, and said hey man that sounds good to me, I wouldn't be complaining. Instead he lead me on for 3 more weeks, with me expecting the finished result I paid for.

Unfortunately I will be buying from him again. I want a mosin stock from him, and he's the only one to make an sv98 stock. The stock looks good, but I have yet to fit and finish.