Rate your SKS'

[mosinnagantm9130]

Yugos and Romainians at the bottom?

[Kerplow]

My yugo is an absolute tack driver.

[comblock]

not all yugos have a grenade launcher

[echo1]

I like SKSs. I just wish they had better safeties. Any Yugos I come across for dirt, will get the Khyber Pass warm over into a Para. PAX

[SideWinder11]

I'm begining to think the OP doesn't really know his SKS's.... Romanian's 2nd to last really???

[glennsche]

wouldnt the e. german ones be the most valuable due to their scarcity?

i have never seen one and wanted to see what OP was talking about re: mauser style stock, came across this using teh powah of teh googlez

http://www.examiner.com/firearms-in-oklahoma-city/east-german-sks-carbine

[Paul_R]

I had a Yugo, it was a beauty, looked really cool with all the hardware out front. But just the added length of the muzzle brake as well as the very noticeable extra weight made it seem unwieldy compared to my Russian. I sold it but still have my Russian.

@ Vlad 11
Never brag on your rifle by saying it "shoots circles" around something else......

[SKSer45]

wouldnt the e. german ones be the most valuable due to their scarcity?

i have never seen one and wanted to see what OP was talking about re: mauser style stock, came across this using teh powah of teh googlez

http://www.examiner.com/firearms-in-...an-sks-carbine

Yeah that and N.Koreans. Also be safe to say 49 Russians as well since it was first year of production.

[Kauf]

Whatever, my Romanian shoots circles around my Russian

That must be because the Russian shoots such small groups and the Romanian is all over the place around it

[SinisterBud]

Chinese are by far the worst and where did u get that Yugos are stamped they where made beefier. Only the Chinese where stamped and had pinned barrels. the best barrels are not chromed lined. I have 1 Russian 1 Chinese and 2 Yugos by far the Chinese is the worst i have put 9k through my Yugos with out one problem. U sure didn't do your home work at all. I would trade my Chinese for a yugo any day of the week.

[furyous68]

I've got a Norinco & a Yugo. Both are real good shooters, accurate out to 430yds (furthest iron @ SLOSA range).

The Yugo had the GL removed & the barrel re-crowned. It's in a Montecarlo stock (bought it as a barreled receiver). No issues w/ the gas system at all. No FTL's, FTF's, FTE's, or stove-piping issues. I do want to get a decent repro wood stock for the it. It's in real nice shape. Putting one of those peep sights on it & going to leave it un-scoped.

The Norinco is in one of those ATI Druganov stocks (didn't get it w/ a wood stock). Same performance as the Yugo. I'm going to put it into one of those bull-pup stocks though. Somebody decided to grind away the rear site mount to make room for a 50mm scope... so might as well bubba it a little more & get a nice CQC rifle out of it.

[1-M-42]

I only have one, a '52 Russian, so it's at the top of my list. It shoots better than great, looks good and the workmanship is top notch. I'm not a SKS guy since most of my collection is WWII or earlier but my Russian is usually part of my range trips.

[millwright39]

I have always heard that Romanians were built to be quite good copies of the Russians although I never confirmed it anywhere. I've shot one pretty extensively. Other than a gritty trigger, which can be worked out, I was pretty pleased. It seemed like a fine rifle. I've not handled some of the other ones you've mentioned. What specifically makes the Romanian rifles so bad in your eyes?

Out of mine the Russian,-early/26\ China,Yugo,Later date china,albania, My bunch the Romanian was the best all around .

[Fishslayer]

Can't really say. I have a Russian & a Norinco. The Russki is in an aftermarket K-Sports stock, the Norinco is in resin.

The painted finish on the refurbed Russian looks like azz and comes off with solvent.

The blued metal on the Norinco is nicer than I would expect.

Both have been 100% reliable with Yugo milsurp ammo. I believe the Russian has a slight edge in accuracy. It definitely feels slicker.

I would have a hard time deciding which to give up.

[Rob454]

9. Yugo- Worst of the worst. In fact some people fight over the fact that it shouldn't even be called an SKS. Made out of stamped steel junk, gas valve that is un-reliable, and no chromed barrel. Yugo gives the SKS family a black eye and that's with the grenade launcher.

What you talkin about Willis? I had a Yugo M59 and it had a shiny barrel with absolutely no pitting and sharp rifling, good blueing and shot very accurately at 250 yards. And the whole thing was milled. I have never seen a stamped steel Yugo SKS. And mine did not have a gas valve. I ended up selling it cause i got tired of looking at it and never shooting it anymore. I loved my Yugo SKS but I told myself i will not keep any dust collectors. The non chrome barrel never made a difference to me I jsut cleaned the gun when i got home. Everyone should own a SKS one time in their life