which SKS is better?

[Ergo the Qualmed]

I love my Yugo. Sure, it's heavy, but to me this makes recoil nonexistent.

The crappy cali muzzle break, while I don't think it does anything and I wish it had the old grenade launcher, IS pretty cool for the wow factor...it hurts the teeth to stand anywhere but directly behind it!

It seems accurate; I can do as well with it offhand as I can with my Marlin .22...I used it in a CMP hipower match and scored 4th place. I'm plenty satisfied. No cycling issues either btw.

Furthermore, despite the fact that the barrel is not chrome, i haven't had a problem. In addition, there are quite a few unissued Yugos floating around. Hell, my Big 5 Yugo, a 1970 G model, had never been issued prior to my purchasing it. So I got a brand new rifle, essentially.

Get what you want. Personally, I think the Yugo is nice because it is plenty accurate, plenty beefy, and the muzzle break and grenade sight make it look "cooler" (IMO). I think it is underappreciated while the Russian beauties go prancing around. Too delicate

[PEZHEAD265]

Q: Which SKS is better?
A: The one that shoots the best.



I only have a very limited experience with my Chinese Paratrooper, but so far, I am so incredibly impressed with it for being a milsurp rifle.

The paratrooper is not a milsurp rifle.It may have before it was cut down but the paratrooper is a commercial rifle made and sold to the public by Norinco.

[tuolumnejim]

I vote for the Ruskie, my 51' Tula performs flawlessly.

[saki302]

I've owned many SKSs before when I used to collect them- now I'm down to just a few.

Russians are nice for originality, you really can;t go wrong with a Russian one. Find a laminated stock one if you can.
The best feeling of the bunch? Early Chinese production (Sino Soviet). It had the best trigger and overall feel.

I also rather liked the Albanian one I had- it's just a little different than the rest (but I sold it- just too many of them!!).

The Yugos also came in a non-grenade launching variant which was an identical copy of the Russian gun- the Yugo M59 (no slash no dash).

-Dave