some sks information

i found some of the sks para's in the safe that were built as para's. these were assembled from parts, new receivers, original barrels were new rifle barrels cut down ( all 300 were screwed barrels) most of the barrels were long lug, the trigger housing were all milled, all have matching numbers, about 1/2 were blade bayonet and the other half were the crosifix ( spelling is wrong). all came with a bayonet mounted on them. all have the lighting cult bolts. the stocks were new and most were the chu wood light blonde. ( some of these were changed out to an older stock. the second and third from the top are the original stocks) no factory code, no china symbles stamped on the side, 5 diget serial numbers, ( some starting with "0"). these are very rare.
all the barrels are the heavy barrel. i think i got these at the end of 1993 or early 1994. ( not sure). these have never been fired.

a litle more sks information:
back in 1991 or 1992 ( i am not real sure the year it was) a couple of friends and i were going to build a sks that would take a ak mag . we bought almost 1000 of the china ska para's. we stripped them down, removed the wood stock, mag release, handguard, took off the bayonet. got them ready to install a mag catch, it was a small metal catch that a hole was drilled into the bottom of the receiver,taped and the catch was mounted. a oversize mag realease was installed, black metal perferated handguard installed, installed a pinned on muzzle brake, dyed the slings black ( ritz dye) in a wash tub, we used the black composite folding stock made for the sks-m. there was a little milling on the receiver to be done, but i don't remember what it was.
it would have turned out to be a really nice looking rifle. then the ban hit and some other problems with the atfe, so we abandoned the idea. divided up the para's. one of the guys sold all his, the other guy and i put them in storage until the end of 2006.
then we sold off most of them. he kept a few and i kept some. we had never put them back together with the wood stocks, so the stock didn't match nor did the 10 round mags, but they sold as fast as we could put them back together (the drive way and the garage was full of sks parts). most of them still had the metal handguards and the extended mag release on them when we sold them. if i can remember which safe they are in i will dig out a couple of them out and take a few pictures.

for the most part they were all milled rifles, some were the SINO-SOVIET SKS rifles, most had the early scope mounts, some had the heavy barrels on them, all still had the bayonet lugs ( they had bayonets when we got them.) these are still full of cosmolene ( i wiped off the outside some.)

bottom line was they would have made a great little rifle, but there were some problem with the building of them with the atfe at the time, so none were ever made.
i only kept 20 or 30 of the para's for me, wish i had kept a couple of hundred of them now.
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a little more information from an old dealer guy:

in the mid 80's i would take sks rifles and ammo to gunshows and back then i would take 10 wooden crates of sks rifles (20 rifles to a crate) and about 50-100 cases of ammo. i would sell the rifles out of the crate ( lots of grease/cosmolene), pick one off the top. i would give them a rifle rug to put them in and a wad of paper towels. $69.00 plus sales tax. the ammo was $100 a case 1200 rounds plus tax. some guys would buy a whole crate of rifles. then i started getting them 10 to a crate, it was easier to handle. many more guys would just buy a crate of them. if you bought them by the crate it was $5 off each rifle. that was the good old days. always sold out of what ever i took.
there was 7 of us (ffl dealers) that would buy a tractor trailer load at a time. we would all go to the shipping dock with our 16' trailers and load them up. we did this once or twice a month for several years.
we were paying $17 to $19 a rifle from around 1985 to 1987 then it went to $30 to $35 in 1988 to 1989. then up to around $50 in 1993 or 1994 and i quit buying them.

we also did the same with ammo. bought it by the container load and divided it up among 7 guys.

you would think that every man, woman in the united states owned a sks rifle and had at least 10000 rounds of ammo in storage.

sometime in the late 89 or early 90's we had to start removing all the bayonets from the rifles. it was to much trouble to keep track of which were imported before the bayonet ban, so we just took them all off, except for crates which i never opened until 2006.
i quit selling the china rifles in1996( sks rifles/sks para, sks m's, m-14s, uzi's, mak90's, etc.) until late 2006. one of the other guys put his in storage also. in late 2006 we flooded the market with the china rifles for about 2 years here in texas. (most were sold to ffl dealers). i sold a few on one of the gun sites.
he and i have sold all we are going to sell off. none for sale now.

i saw some at the last gun show i went to and the dealers was selling them for $400+.

we have both quit the gun business, not renewed our ffl's.

it was fun while it lasted.......if you have questions, i may remember somethings. just ask........

i really like the china sks rifles and also like the china ak rifles. i started buying them in the early to mid-80's.

It's free and easy to use http://photobucket.com/ I remember back when i was in my early teens seeing those SKS rifle from China and Russia along with box after box of various Chinese ammo if I only knew then what I know now I could have had a nice selection of rifles and a good stockpile of ammo.

I have been pretty luck though over the past couple years. I managed to find a NIB Chinese /26\ ,a NIB Yugo M59/66 and and really nice refurbish 1970 Yugo M59/66 all the other examples just never show up around here or the ones that do have been bubbed or beat to death which is a crying shame.

I happy with the three I have and I enjoy them and appreciate them just as much as any of my American made rifles like my Savage 99 in 300 Sav. Nice story thanks for sharing.

i saw what information they wanted and it is more than they need, so i guess i will not be posting pictures. thanks anyway for the information.

more old man stories,
this is what we were selling them for at the gun shows, not the wholesale prices.

the russian rifles were as much as $75 each for hardwood and $80 each for the laminated ones. all were in like new condition and many were not refurbed rifles ( new rifles).

the SVT rifles in new/like new condition were $175 each.

colt sp1 rifles $275 each.......

new/like new swedish m-96 rifles $60 to $65. ( bought them 100 at a time)


not going to tell you about the prices for the SVD rifles and the galil rifles. i don't want people getting sick on the site.

yes!, those were the fun days of gun dealing........ then the AWB happened and it was not fun for dealers or the public. at the end of 1995 i descided to quit doing gun shows and most everything went into storage. i would do special orders for people and buy stuff for me. in 2006 i descided to quit and it took 2 + years to get rid of the guns in storage, except for what i kept for my grandkids and there grandkids.

Who knows cpt Ron, maybe the Norinco's I picked up the other day were once your's?

Who knows cpt Ron, maybe the Norinco's I picked up the other day were once your's?
if it was still in grease and you got it in the last 2 years it just may be.

either way, enjoy it, take care of it and keep it as long as you can.