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- Lets start the week off by paying tribute to the Samozaryadnyj Karabin sistemy Simonova 1945; the SKS-45 carbine.
Featured Variants Include:
Soviet-Russian SKS (early & late models)
Chinese Type 56 (early & late models)
Romanian Cugir M56
Yugoslavian Zastava PAP M59/66
And
Albanian Umgransh SKS
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The most underrated firearm to date. People used to laugh at these and literally call them pieces of junk. No one even wanted them when they were 70 bucks. Love your vids bud. Keep up the good work .
that's exactly how I operate, I only become interested in a particular model of firearm after it's value escelates far beyond a resonable amount.
I got one a few years back. Happy I did too, i don't get it out as much as I'd like though. Still a solid rifle. I'd love to see someone like PSA come out with a modernized version.
I paid $500 for a Type 56 last year. Glad I did.
You could totally get away with operating a small military rifle museum just with your collection
SKS are what got me started. Have 14 of them. One from every country except the Holy Grails - North Korea, North Vietnam, and East German.
I would think north Korea and Vietnam would be Chinese.
@@o9rgeronimo979 both countries produced the SKS. North Vietnam certainly used Chinese as well as produced their own.
NVA = vietnamese, but NVA also equals East German
You’re a lucky guy. You moved when they were cheap. All I got is a Type 56 Albanian Chinese. I’m a Romanian American kid from Upstate New York, and I would love to have a Romanian SKS.
@@factorybear5264 Romanian ones cost less than most russian ones
The SKS is truly a fascinating rifle seeing as it spent most of its life as surplus, export, or for reservists, never seeing much use in it's home nation. I wonder what a SKS M could've looked like had the AK never existed. Perhaps even a whole weapon family like what the AK grew into with the krinkov and the RPK
Checkout the Chinese Type 63....perhaps something like that?
@@misha5670 I was thinking more along the lines of the type 81 but the 63 is a step in the right direction
I bought my Chinese one for $110 back in the early 1990's. It's a great rifle. It was always overshadowed by the AK, but you are correct that you really can't compare the two. The SKS is from an earlier era and worked exactly as designed. It was a self loading carbine and an excellent one. I always tell people, don't expect this to be an AK. If you want an AK, buy one.
Love the SKS platform. Was my first gun and even named my son Simonov.
I'm sure he's greatful it wasn't "Simon Belmont' hehe.
I bought 5 SKS rifles in the early 90's . The first two were Russian a 1951 and a 1954 with laminated stocks for $100. Each. Then I bought two more in 94 a 1953 and a 1955 Russian for $129 each Then a bought an Chinese SKSm that has a 16.5" barrel and takes AK mags for $239. They are still my favorite rifles. Those were the good old days. I prefer them to the AK's.
Misha has more sks variants than I have firearms. What a hero.
Thats sad. You need more.
@@Akhazmat907 only have 4 :(
Well misha is a firearm dealer to be fair but then again I also agree that you should always have more guns lol
Thank you for this wonderful video! I could listen to you talk for hours! Great content as usual, we love you Misha, keep up the great work.
Just started the video, and I am already compelled to tell you how much I love your SKS collection, just beautiful.
Love my Yugo SKS that rifle is a tank
Glorious just glorious thank you for sharing. Sks was my first love!
The ultimate sks video on TH-cam, Misha you are the best!!!
Thanks for watching & i really don't recall ever just lining them all up like this before.
Longest SKS video. Love it. Love SKS. Nice collection
Very nice presentation of the SKS. You kept it to the point without confusing viewers with the more intricate differences. My favorite, and I’ve had all of the variations, were the early Chinese Sino-Soviet now referred to by some as the Chinese Letter Gun in excellent but used condition. Fantastic gun. I give you an A+ on this video. Well done like all your productions.
Thanks, YooperJ
That's the thing about an overview. If you let it get tooooo bogged down in details, you end up with a 3 hour video and an audience of 1. I've talked about these individual before, but never all together, all lined up like this. Just seemed like something fun to do. Recorded it 2-3 weeks ago i suppose.
I've had many of sks's and every one of them worked great
Ditto
They’re the better manufactured AK, if there is such a thing.
Great video and content, ive always enjoyed the SKS , So many cool variants ! Thanks for sharing!
Stuck right in between the Mosin and the Kalashnikov, the SKS is often overlooked. In away its unique because there are not many self-loading (semi-only) military rifles, that are chambered for a true intermediate caliber cartridge. There's the VZ.52, the Rasheed, andum what else? I guess you could stretch the point to say the L1A1 SLR was both a self-loader and fired an 'intermediate' cartridge but calling 7.62 NATO thatw as more of a paperwork thing than a reality hehe. The French MAS-49 series comes close but 7.5mm was a full power round by most every metric. Likewise, the M1 Carbine while great really fired more of a 'pistol' caliber cartridge than true intermediate. God i just love history.
Great collection, Mishaco.
Yes! I’ve been hoping for a big SKS video
But BYOF...bring your own fish.
I had a Chinese SKS. The only rifle I ever broke down and reassembled. Easy to disassemble and reassemble. Very good rifle, 7.62/39.
I remember in the late 70s walking into my local gun shop and there was a rack full of SKS carbine's, people thought that it was a junk gun... wish I bought more of them when they were cheep.
Thank you Misha for all ur videos,u are so knowledgeable about firearms in general and I always learn something new from u.i love my sks, it's super accurate, practice u can reload a new clip faster than a ak.the most underrated gun ever.grab one while u can a new batch just got in to classic firearms.👍
Holy SKS’s Batman! Misha you never disappoint!
Still working to find an East German though.
@@misha5670 I have every faith in your ability to find one ;)
@@jimrodriguez8047 With enough money literally anything is possible
@@TheDiameter I would not associate Misha with being extremely rich financially. I have done business with him many times and he seems to be just a hard-working Small business owner..However since he does operate a gun store he gets more opportunities at having guns come through his shop and that allows him to have a larger collection and not to mention he’s been doing this for I think around 15 to 20 years now
Thank you for all the work you put into this video. I have a 1954 Tula, Tula Factory refurbished, parts matching SKS that was imported in the early 1990's before the Clinton ban. It looks almost new. It took what seemed like forever to clean it after I purchased it and got it home. I think half it's weight was cosmoline. lol Thanks for all the information!
Went shooting with my first sks on sunday. Day before it was covered in cosmaline and next day shooting steel at 100 albeit with a solid 6oclock hold out of the grease. Surprisingly inherently accurate.
Good video Mischa. I've got a type 56 i've had for 15yrs. very accurate and never had any issues.
Thank You Sooo Much, Misha !! My Favorite rifles !!!
Great video, thanks for sharing.
I like my sks, I picked up a cowboy companion with the 20rd fixed box mag, and it has the side scope mount. Very fun to shoot.
Yeah, those Chicom OEM 20 rd mags were kind of neat.
Excellent. Was just fondling my SKS and about to some more haha. Sent you an email btw! We really appreciate the great content you put out
Sorry, have been pretty busy over the weekend. I'll get caughtup on e-mails tomorrow, cheers.
@@misha5670 cheers brother. Amazing SKS video
Had the chance to buy an Albanian sks a few years ago didnt end up getting it unfortunately but maybe one day...i got a russian tula for my 14th birthday back in the day when they were still considered "poor mans rifles" i miss those days...great video as always misha we love ya man.
Yeah, my first Russian was $150 and i think the most i ever paid was $400 for the letter series in this video here.
SKS is a battle beast. The distinctive crack of the muzzle report made us hit the dirt in ‘Nam
Wow man you have quite a collection.
all favorites good work!
Great video. Very interesting. I bought a Chinese Type 56 SKS from Classic Firearms about a year ago. Sent it off to a gunsmith about a month ago to have the cosmoline removed and checked out. Getting it back any time now. Looking forward to shooting it.
Mishaco that one early Chinese SKS with the real red stock, at first glance to thought it was a fiber glass jungle stock. Tapco was selling them back in the mid 1990's. I have one with the hand guard that i never put on an SKS that i have. THANK's for this video now i know what variant i have.
That Yugo stock appears to be Elm if I had to say, I have several pieces of elm furniture in my house from the 40's and 50's. I could be wrong.
Thanks for your videos, really enjoy them.
Thank you 🙏 so much my dear 💐
excellent misha
thank you
PSA still has them as of 12/3/2021 for 429. Type 56, decent quality. I got one last year for 300 and have fallen in love, quite a handy little rifle.
Those are all so beautiful. My norinco I got last year is such a great shooter. Easy plinking at 200 yards all day. Probably can do much more, wish the range I go to would open up their 350 yard more often.
China has given us so many interesting variants.
I love your videos. Im an AK connoisseur but my first love is the SKS and honestly I still prefer how the SKS feels in every way. The safety is in a better spot, the recoil is softer, the trigger is smoother and the cheek weld is better. Its just a fantastic firearm.
Just acquired a factory refurbed 51 Russian SKS. It’s an enjoyable shooter with an interesting history. Thanks for the informative upload. You must have a seriously impressive collection.
Those old Russian SKS rifles can be absolutely gorgeous
Misha is a wealth of knowledge.
Thank you for watching, cheers
Excellent Misha, thanks for this video! I have the ability to pickup an Albanian to add to my collection, starting to think I should. Price seems fair seeing how much they go for on gunbroker.
Not sure what is fair to you today or even what they are priced at on Gunbroker now? I got this one thanks to a friend in New Mex. and that was years ago now. Back then, these were $500-$700 depending on condition and year variant.
Buy it...there ain't no mo'...
Next to the East German, the Albanian has GOT to be the rarest...but extant...do not let this opportunity pass...
You might hurt financially now...but in a few years...or less you'll be gloating!!!
Out of my skss my favorite is my M56 or my bubbad chinese commercial sks dad gave me when I was 10. I have several... Russian, chinese sksS which accepts ak mags, a Chinese "letter gun"/ghost gun... And more, but I love the "marbling" in the stock and the deep blue of my Romanian M56, and the bubbad chinese sks has so much sentimental value... I dunno I guess its just different and I respect that! Thanx for the awesome informative and entertaining video, as always!
With a good commercial soft point or expanding 7.62x39 round... the SKS could almost be considered a semi-auto .30-.30 Winchester. Very similar ballistics.
You aren't wrong
Wish I never had sold, the few I have owned. Thanks for the share!!
Great vids Mischa . Bought 2 of these 30 yrs ago at gun show packed in cosmoline. $200 each , what a deal
Yep, first we had Chinese coming in, then Russian, followed by the Yugos. Plus some smaller number guns like the Romanians and Albanians. When all of those came in, at the time, they were priced very reasonably and gotta love cleaning cosmoline. It was our first bonding experience with our 'new' old gun. Goodtimes.
Great topic! Glad you didnt jump on the RN .50 bandwagon. Its nice you can still come up with content on your own. You can tell those Desperate for material. Excellent Video
Please don't laugh, but what is the RN.50? When i tell people i am just a gun enthusiest like anyone, its not a line of BS. I like what I like, and am just into the things that interest me. It can be new stuff like the Beryls, but I like those so much because they are a progression that can be traced back to old milsurp like Poland's M44 Mosins. If there's no history? its just kind of boring for me, personally.
@@misha5670 its a .50 cal single shot rifle made by serbu, the guy who makes the BFG .50 which has military market like the barrett and the Serbu shorty shotgun amongst many others. Theres some counterfeit SLAP rounds on the market and one almost Killed Scott at Kentucky Ballistics when it detonated and blew up the rn.50. Since a bunch of gun tubers been making videos and a lot are knocking the RN .50 when they should be knocking the counterfeit SLAP rounds. Anyway I was glad to see you continue to make your own content without jumping on the bandwagon. You can tell the slap rounds are not real because the projectile shape was wrong ,sabbot color and shape was wrong, it didnt have the neck crimp seen on slap rounds and we didnt see the case head if it said slap or not however scott shot many videos with them ( before the one that detonated ) and they were all over the place a foot this way a foot that way bigger than normal fireball ect
Just bought my first SKS. Late to the game I know. I’ve shot several over the years but never owned one. Factory 26, serial number in the 23 millions so 1979 I suppose. Mint condition. French tickler ipper handguard. Price was too good to pass up in today’s market. Idk how good late model quality is compared to earlier ones but I like it.
Most informative -- thank you so much for your time and obvious effort in posting this. A question -- were the 20 round box magazines (these were stamped with a star symbol) made in China ever used in their "day to day" SKS rifles or were these magazines created for the American market ???
They were commercial magazines.
Although my overall experience with firearms is rather limited compared to most enthusiasts, I’ve always enjoyed the SKS. Just a all around fun and reliable rifle in my opinion. Thanks for the video, incredibly informative.
Great video I love history
My "lettered" Soviet SKS is only 1,000 serial numbers away from yours. Maybe they sat in the same warehouse together. Great review as always. Thanks for your fine work !
Could have done, never know
@@misha5670 If only the surplus we have could talk. The tales they would tell !
loved my yugo was a great sks and loved my norinco too the sks was first self loader i had then traded up to the mak90 im flush at the moment and loads of used guns others trading up with hopefully i find a new toy in surplus world. great videos as always
I wish they weren't so hard to find now but I love my AG42B. Found it in a pawnshop about 20 years ago and traded a 'preban' Glock 31 rd mag & a couple bills for it lol. Remember, those were the AWB days, so that stupid mag was work bank back then. Still have that same Ljungman til this very day.
@@misha5670 yeah i remember leo marked mags and when gun shows were fun but im going shopping tomorrow if i snag something cool ill fill you in i really enjoy the videos the goldn days of surplus is dead so the history end is as fun for me now
I have a 1954 Izhevsk SKS. It's all matching with its original stock and a 1950's era sling. I used to shoot it a lot but since they are uncommon I bought a Classic Firearms imported Chinese SKS to shoot.
Good call, no reason to put wear & tear on the Izhevsk. I had one but a friend really wanted it and offered me a very fair trade. So these days he has it.
LOVE these Russian revisits! My fav collectable guns are Mosins of all variants as well as SKS's and I also have an SVT-40. Having shot all of these I'm fascinated with their history as well as the Western mythology that they're junk. Keep up the good, Misha!!! (also, please revisit the SVT-38-40 conversation!!!)
I have an excellent Russian SKS in a laminate stock, it is quite accurate, better than the Chinese variant I had. I tried to like a couple of AKs, a 47 and a 74, just couldn't make the love happen.
Would be great to see a video showing all the different proof marks on the rifles barrel, action and stock.
I like that jungle stock, but wood is part of the charm, i have a sks nr, ak mag well, and i like tapco out sks as well.
"lightening" cuts
arent just for less mass
but also tend to add strength
even w/ less material like is
so well exemplified by
the H/I-beam
Almost every sks i come across i buy even in todays times these are one of my favorites rifles
Well done.
It blows my mind that Mishaco doesn't have 500k subs at the very least.
Honestly just the very thought of that many people makes me nervous and that would stress me out. I'm just a gun guy who loves chatting about historical firearms.
Oh boy! Time to make some popcorn.
why oh why can I not make a 15 minute video? lol
@@misha5670 Because that wouldn't be near as awesome. This channel is for soaking up knowledge and we (should) all appreciate every minute of it.
By the looks of the Russian SKS types you have shown i had the early one, no stamped parts and no chrome lined barrel but it was a quality piece and it was number matching ( all parts had the same number and it had the star and cycle on the bolt cover) wish I had kept it,i paid 120 dollars for it back in the early 90s very nice gun and in very good condition
I bought an unfired cherry’s import and a spam can for $500 in 2015. No longer unfired, I might add.
Don't forget the Chinese sks model d. It takes ak mags. Very cool video.
You are correct the death knell of the SKS was the stamped receiver, the areas occupied by Russian were bomb out, and the stamped receiver was less costly and faster to produce !!!
I bought a Chinese Model 56 three years ago and I love it!
Just watched your video again. Bought my third SKS today. Had a Chinese, and a Yugo. Today picked up a very nice Russian SKS. Always love reviewing and studying guns. And history. Thanks for sharing.
Hey Misha, I was shown a Yugoslavian sks for sale locally with odd markings. Has the 59/66 gas block but rifle grenade spigot has been removed along with the threads. I believe it was refurbished in Bosnia. It has G10 marked on the receiver and the serial number is just on the receiver and doesn’t conform to any yugo serial numbers. The rifle is in like new condition and I mean like brand new. I am wondering if you know anything interesting about this rifle.
Excellent weapons!
I bought my Chinese in the early 90s, never has failed me, I would feel very confident using it in a combat situation if I had too. I just wish I had bought a couple more back in the day !!!
this was awesome!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Beautiful wood grain !
I love my re-arsenaled (I’m sure I botched that) Russian SKS, and my not matching Chinese SKS. It’s a goal of mine to own an AK and SKS from every country that’s ever done a 3 plus year run of both!
The yugo would definitely be the easiest, Zastava still makes the M70.
Oh boy you just opened a can of worms for me. Now I'm going to have to go dig out all of my SKS,s I don't even know how many I have but it's more than a dozen. I've never even looked into where they came from .But whenever I would see one a little different from what I had and it was cheap, I would buy it. I've given away several just because they needed something to shoot and I didn't have much in it. I'm curious to what all I've got now. I have many with different features than you have explained. Different lengths and hand guards ECT. They sure have gone up in price at the gun shows. Crazy. I've always thought they were underappreciated. They always work..not terrible for accurate. Cheap ammo at one time.just can't go wrong owning one or 20.
@Mishaco,
Do you know If the Chinese ever made standard SKS rifles for commercial export only? I'm looking at a model that uses the standard 10rd swinging box mag, but there's a D at the end of the serial number. It's a 7 digit serial on the receiver and 5 everywhere else. The first two numbers on the receiver are 1 and 2. The D is at the end of the serial number and it doesn't appear to have been added after the fact.
The gun doesn't appear to be put together sloppily and the seller removed the stock to show me that it uses a screw in barrel. No lightening cut on the bolt carrier. All numbers match except the 10 rd box. Some buffoon removed it long ago so they could struggle with shitty duckbill mags. The current owner found a surplus 10 rd swinging box to get it back to its former glory. There are numbers on the receiver, the stock, the trigger guard and bolt carrier.
I just wanna make sure this isn't a commercial gun before buying it.
I remember when Aim Surplus had the Albanian SKS for cheap. I was unfortunately not in a position to order things online at the time.
I recall when Allens Armory had quite a few of them too
I have a Chinese norinco poly ,looks like new but lacking bayonet.I really love this gun!
Be nice to hear your input on the type 81
I've never owned one, and i don't often do videos on guns that I haven't owned & operated myself. First-hand is my favorite hand haah.
@@misha5670 man I lend you mine if I could. Just fined it hard to fined any info on the rifles. Thanks from Canada.
Have a Russian, Chinese, and Yugo. Yugo is still my fave
Can you do a history on the Chinese SKS's and why they are so hard to date. Norincos, Type 56's Jianshe Aresenal, /26/, etc.
I know I'm biased but for me YUGO sks looks the best i know because when I was 6 years old yugoslavian army were here in forest two hundred meters away from our home and us kids where there all the time because(three of us) they where alone about 10 soldiers who served mandatory and where old between 18 and 25 they build some underground bunkers and when they where alone they lett us in One wooden barack and show us how to clean sks and whenever they go to a local bar we guard the place with sks rifle of course with out ammo but it was still awesome and something like that would be impossible today(this was a coal colony housing and everyone who lived here had a vegetable garden) and we stole the vegetable from neighbor's garden (back then everyone had a vegetable garden)we gave them onions and tomatoes and other veggies and they give us caned food hehehehe 👍 great memories this was in mid 80s in yugoslavia and ever since then sks is special to me
I hoped you would see & like this video, cheers.
@@misha5670 i had no time so i watch 37 minutes but now I'll watch the rest of it
Wow so there is a Chinese QD sks bayonet??? Is there a good place to look for one? Definitely can’t find any for sale anywhere I’ve looked
Is the rear sight compatible / the same as the AKM rear sight? Could I put a yugo sks rear sight with flip night sights on my akm?
I have a brand new yugo... I took it out of the original cosmoline when purchased. It has the flip up grenade sights. I bought it last summer for 500. How did i do? Great video as usual
Seems like a solid price for one these days. Some people prefer the original M59 but the M59/66 has always been more unique and interesting to me too.
I have in 1954RSKS I cannot find anything on the R series it is Sylvia and has a blade bayonet can you tell me a little bit about it?
Is a yugo recoil pad compatible with a Norinco stock?
where does the M21 SKS fit into this? mine looks like an issued and used , the bore looks good. but every part is serial marked and correct. no importation marks are visible. Cleaning rod and kit is there and marked, it has a silver bayonet, everything else is blued. Thanks, very interesting.
I'm afraid I'm not anything like an expert on the M21. That seems to be a designation/name/serial prefix China put on SKSs bound for export. Originally, M21s were made in the '60s and went to such fun places as Vietnam. I think these were often devoid of many marks/words. Then in the '80s, you had M21s made for the USA or other customers, and these have a great reputation for quality. I guess I kind of think of them as the 'Polytech of tch SKS world". Of course the M21 is still just a Type 56, just given a different name because it was intended for a different customer. Sorry I am not much help here.
Yugoslavia stopped production of the M59/66 in 1970? Could have sworn every source I've researched puts the production stop somewhere around 89. I know mine is most likely a 1972 based on serial, night sight, and porting on the spigot. '72 was the final year the grenade spigot had porting on the end.
Love mine. Got me a nice Chinese one. Blade bayonet. She's pretty beat up too so I can assume she's been used in any war since Korea. I know from some trench art she was in Kukes Albania back in 93.
Wait if something could explain, I didn't quite get the part about how the sights can flip up like that. I have never known went that is.
Where do you get all these beautiful firearms?
I have a real nice Paratrooper that started off life as a Factory 26 Type 56 letter series before being converted to a paratrooper by the Importer.
Those Paras are handly little brush guns for sure.
@@misha5670 That is very true I love mine for sure.
45.09 is it called a Simobanian ? The one sinibanisn I saw looked slittlemdifferent
I got a surplus romanian stock for the crossbolt, fit my Tula so well, I shelved the Arctic Birch and use the romanian beechwood instead.
Hey, why not? I grabbed the Romie in this video as my shooter SKS actually.
In Albania we call it "pushkë dhjetëshe" or tenner rifle coz of 10 rounds capacity
Love my SKS as much as any of my AKs- she’s stout, accurate and dependable
Sounds like you are talking about an Eastern European lover.