The Russian SKS, The Soviet gift to the world.
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- The SKS is one of the more interesting historical rifles you will ever come across. Although the SKS is very plentiful in America it is quickly gaining in price as good examples begin to run out.
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The SKS is a well made Soviet design that saw some use at the very end of WW2 but by the time production began to ramp up it already was a somewhat obsolescent design due to the introduction of the AK-47 / AKM. The SKS is one of those rifles that combines old world theory like fixed magazines and traditional rifle stock with new age sensibilities; intermediate cartridge, and semi automatic design. I hope you enjoy today's video. We appreciate every single one of you.
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00:00 The Russian SKS
01:15 SKS defeats Ron Jeremy
01:31 SKS Review Begins
03:37 SKS used to be cool because it was so cheap
04:31 Light History of the SKS
06:45 SKS Barrels / Accuracy
08:45 Fixed SKS Bayonet
09:26 SKS Sights
10:00 SKS Gas System
10:27 Ridge Wallet Sponsorship!
11:23 SKS vs AK-47 Recoil Comparison
13:15 SKS Problems
14:45 SKS Safety
14:56 Ghost that SKS Trigger together
16:18 is your Russian SKS refinished?
17:55 Final thoughts on the Russian SKS
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I was able to find a Russian SKS last year for a reasonable price just on a whim at a local gun store. I don't regret my decision.
The chinese are nicer anyway
This is like the only legal rifle in Canada
What's the ammo capacity of the sks
@@danLTa1 10 rounds
@@danLTa1 10 shots, extendable
The SKS was designed with "the last war" fought in mind. For what it is I understand the design idea behind it. From a supply standpoint it is logistically awesome. The rifle platform is completely self contained. Bayonet, sling, cleaning kit, and cleaning rod are entirely contained within the weapon. Once the rifle is in the field, you only have to really figure out how to get enough ammo to resupply it. As long as that ammo is already being shipped packaged with stripper clips, you are pretty much good to go in 1945.
During the time it was made, the decision to not have a detachable style box magazine did actually make a lot of sense. Magazines are the Achille's heel of reliability in new designs, and are one more thing they would have to be able to supply to the front line.
And yes, the only thing "wrong" with the SKS is you can no longer buy them for 75 bucks a rifle. We really need to change a lot of the laws on importation and C&R rules so there can be SKS's for ~100 bucks again.
The ComBloc tax is all too real. I had to pay 500 for mine, no bayo or cleaning rod. Everything else was there, and it's numbers matching (but the gas tube wood finish is different, even though it was engraved with the same numbers. Weird idk why)
Cmon now we cant firearms too cheap wouldn't the distraught unhappy working class people to be able to arm themselves now can we?
@@DillonWaffles My model D has no provision for a bayonet and it also has a bolt with no stripper clip provision! I'm going to change the bolt to one that has the provision for a stripper clip loading!
SKS был разработан с учетом "последней войны". Как бы то ни было, я понимаю лежащую в его основе дизайнерскую идею. С точки зрения поставок это потрясающе с точки зрения логистики. Стрелковая платформа полностью автономна. Штык, перевязь, набор для чистки и чистящий стержень полностью содержатся в оружии. Как только винтовка окажется в полевых условиях, вам останется только по-настоящему разобраться, как раздобыть достаточно боеприпасов для ее пополнения. Пока эти боеприпасы уже поставляются в упаковке с зажимами для снятия, вы в значительной степени готовы отправиться в 1945 год.
В то время, когда это было принято, решение не иметь съемного магазина style box действительно имело большой смысл. Магазины - это ахиллесова пята надежности в новых конструкциях, и это еще одна вещь, которую они должны были бы поставлять на передовую.
И да, единственное, что "не так" с SKS, - это то, что вы больше не можете покупать их по 75 баксов за винтовку. Нам действительно нужно изменить многие законы об импорте и правила C & R, чтобы снова можно было купить SKS за ~ 100 баксов.
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I have a Yugo SKS. Got it back when it was $125. It's my favorite range gun. Super accurate, extremely reliable. I absolutely love it!
I had a Yugo SKS on hold years ago @ my Lgs. It was $250. I decided not to buy because i was short on cash @ the time. I always wish i would have gotten it.
Got mine for $250 during the early days of the 2019 shooting/gun price jump period. Had to pass up a 1943 nazi Germany stamped mosin the same price a day earlier for it due to lack of funds and an employee of the store noticed it and refused to put it back for sale the next day. Was easily worth thousands as clean as it was with clean numbers and markings. Still makes me sad to think I missed such a beautiful gun by less than 25 hours
I picked up my Zastava M59/66 about two years ago. Unissued and still in cosmoline. Gave it to my gunsmith to clean along with new replacement tritium vials for the night sights, a few days later it was like a had a brand new gun. They're so baller. And the grenade launcher. C'mon.
I have a Rumanian one bought for $125 many years ago. Good quality build.
Here at the Zastava (Yugo) factory, at a time, we had pretty good weapons...top steel quality, nice finish, new details grabbed here and there ...now, as all in the world, not so much ..but older stuff Is still usable, and at a higher level of production quality...Regards from Kragujevac/Serbia/Balcan/Europe... ;)
Probably one of, if not THE most sought-after rifles in Canada by hunters, farmers, and northern communities who still rely on hunting for food. Well over 200,000 units in use across the country speak to its reliability and versatility. Sad to see it on the C-21 ban list 😢 really wanted one for myself
That thing looks sweet I definitely want one.
What are the laws in Canada about owning one of these?
SKS was my first gun purchase. I bought it because they were cheap, ammo cheap and looked cool. And after shooting it a bunch, I hated it! I liked the punch it gave, but was just not as good as I thought it would be. Bought a Mosin Nagant at the same time and that was my fav ever (also got the svt-40 too) I sold them all except the Nagant
@@ShezmuOperative it seems to change at the overlord's whim so I can't say for certain
Just buy one from the black market
Buy it while you can and don’t comply with tyrants lol
With the Amount of Russian Guns he’s reviewing, He just wants the Tarkov Developers to notice him and have an in game cameo
Bro he's already all over tarkov.
he already does, sometimes one of the USEC rogues on lighthouse can be named GarandThumb
There’s a Rogue named Garand Thumb
Nah, he gon be in MW2022
he's confessed to tarkov larping =/
In Siberia they still carry these daily for hunting. I shot some of them, 60-70 year old rifles, still work flawlessly. Fully stock, iron sights, no frills.
Yep, my granddad's brother has one. Only thing, that he ever modified in his SKS - he dismounted bayonet. Very good rifle, if you want to be not eaten by random bear in the taiga.
Are they chambered in the original 7.62x39 or do they use the civilian 9x39?
@@josedorsaith5261 most old rifles use the original, modern clones and remakes that have to follow gun regulations most likely run the variable ammunition, especially with the Russian ammo ban
lots of American hunters use them for deer. THe 7.62x39 is comparable to the 30-30 WCF ballistically.
@@josedorsaith5261 7.62x39 homie The Chinese surplus shit is corrosive and nasty, but cheap as fuuuuuck. Never cleaned a gun so much in me life.
BTW in November of 1979 I was drafted into the Soviet Army, and served in the Radio Location Regiment. We were issued SKS carbines but within the first year of service those SKS carbines were switched to AKMs.
So the SKS was in service in the Soviet Army for 35 years - I guess we were the last guys to have them.
No colleague, I served ten years later than you and we still had SCS. And also RPD-44 ;)
Interesting fact:in its country of origin its nearly impossible to be allowed to own one.In the country, portrayed as Russia's main enemy its not more difficult, than getting a driver's license.
It is not true. In Russia if you have a hunter's license, SKS can be purchased officially from about $150.
@@olegaman2358 but getting a license is not easy,for smoothbore guns maybe.And 150$?For a rifled ,long barrel weapon?A 'Makarov' is 250$,I am from Bulgaria, we make them here ,only design of handle is different.Price is 450-600 leva,one $ is 1,8 leva.
By the way,its easier to get an audience to the Pope in Rome, then to get a gun license here-heritage from the communist occupation time.
@@Georgi_Slavov79 A rifle license can be obtained after five years of owning a smooth-bore weapon. As for prices for SCS, here is the first thing I found.
I have 6 of these, one Chi-com and the rest Russians. Most I paid for one was $225, cheapest was the Chi-com at $75. I don't regret buying any of them. One has been very heavily "Bubba'ed", the rest are as they were made or reconditioned. Surprisingly accurate, even with my old eyes. No problem taking down deer in the bush with these. I have one close at hand to take with me when I go on walkabout around my property, no neighbours close by, so I extend the bayonet just because it's so cool and if a Cougar were to pounce unannounced, the bayo would come in handy. BTW: They are more accurate with the bayo extended.
Not bad, but imo I’d keep the SKS out if I’m hunting, and if I’m just taking a hike, I’ll keep out my 12 gauge mossberg shockwave. Of course the bayonet is badass, so it’s just a matter of preference. I’m thinking about getting a bayonet for my shotgun, but I want it to be a folding one because then it defeats the purpose of having a short shotgun.
The SKS is basically the national rifle of Canada. Nearly every gun owner has one because they're affordable and good quality. Most of ours are the Chinese version, but there are a lot of Russian ones floating around too. Unfortunately because of our retarded laws, the magazine is pinned to only hold 5 rounds.
Tbh it would have been better if they banned high capacity magazines over 30 rounds instead of 5 Rounds
I was gonna say, it's basically Canadas AK. But I bet the average Canadian SKS owner can do a lot more damage that the average American AK owner
@@VorteX_SH would’ve been better but still not good
@Solar General yeah you totally can, you can also get those shitty promag and tapco mags but all pinned too five.
@@Whiskeyactual9531 I think that's a bit of a stretch. Canadians are nerfed big time
I remember when the Chinese versions being sold for $59 back in the late 80's early 90's. Gun shops literally had crates of the things stacked on their floors still covered in cosmoline. Took me forever to clean mine enough to be able to shoot it. 33 years later and it still oozes the stuff after a couple 100 rds on the range to this day.
I bought my first one at a garage sale for $60 in the 90's with a bunch of extra parts
When I got out of high school, these were 250
It took me forever to get the cosmoline off mine and like you say 20+ years later sill has some leaking out after it gets hot
Mine had so much cosmoline frist time i shot it, it caught fire.
I remember this as well. The old style mil-surp stores would have these literally sitting around in crates as you said. The place I shopped at had Norinco AK thumbhole sporters stacked up everywhere, too. I think about all the money sitting around that old shop on the "turn around" 30yrs later.
My dad had this weapon in the Croatian Civil War (1991-1995) he said it’s one of the best guns ever. It’s amazing!
Except that it was not a civil war, but a homeland war, for independence, sovereignty... Croatia was attacked, occupied by another country, not by its own people.
@@krunobrzi666😂😂😂😂 Who rattled your cage ?
@@krunobrzi666 We have the same war now in Ukraine.
Why are you lying? @@krunobrzi666
@@user-eb7hc8ep7l maybe its time to declare a" национально освободительная война Украины"?You really are fighting for survival, brothers!
I own two SKS and they are probably my favorite guns because of the history of them, but how they shoot and the reliability.
As a teen, my best friend's first real gun was an SKS (mine was a mossberg500). We'd spend days out in the woods shooting random crap. Man I miss those days
My first real gun was an sks, and then my second was a mossberg 500. Great guns
Same. Miss the old days friend.
I wanted an SKS to be my first gun. I wound up buying a Mossberg 500 first.
Eventually I told myself that I had made the wrong choice, and the SKS became my fourth gun.
It really should have been my first!
Exact same story my first real gun was an sks my friends a mossburg 500.. small world.
my first gun was a Mossberg 500. Best hunting shotgun for a teen.
SKS was my first semi auto rifle I ever owned. Bought at the Marine Corps Exchange Camp Lejeune in 1993 or 1994 and I believe it was $79. Still have it and one of my favorite rifles to shoot.
That's pretty awesome. Didn't think you could get weapons straight from the Corps but that is an awesome conversation piece :)
Inflation sure does suck... Now they go for $700-$1000! $79 what the fuck
Thats a steal
@@powderedbuns8251 thats not only inflation but also price gouging, especially a common thing with large companies these days
@@powderedbuns8251 that isnt inflation thats something older increasing in value as it gets rarer and more appreciated.
Hi 非常感谢你展示的枪。1974年初，我用一支同样的枪，每天带着它训练，除了射击，还有拼刺刀、爬山...，持续四个月。
你的苏制SKS，和我用的中国五六式完全一样，非常好用，准确，可靠。我认为它很漂亮，非常喜欢。谢。
Hi Thank you so much for showing the gun. At the beginning of 1974, I used the same gun and trained with it every day. In addition to shooting, I also bayoneted and climbed mountains... for four months.
Your Soviet-made SKS is exactly the same as the Chinese Type 56 that I use. It is very easy to use, accurate and reliable. I think it's beautiful and like it very much.
Thanks.
I bought a Yugo SKS almost 20 years ago. The SKS
is a very durable rifle and easy to field strip and clean.
What I like about the Yugo version I have is that I
can disable the gas system. This allows me to
use it like a straight pull bolt action and eliminates
the need to chase the brass of the reloaded rounds
I make for higher accuracy. The gun is pretty accurate with the
steel cased ammunition from Russia but using
brass cases and working up a load for accuracy really
makes my old SKS quite accurate. It has actually shot
1 MOA groups with my reloaded cartridges.
The other great thing about the SKS is that it does not
have some long magazine hanging down which would make
shooting it from a rest much more difficult.
The gun is quick to reload via stripper clips of ten rounds.
The SKS is still the best farm/truck gun I've ever encountered. It has everything attached, so nothing can fall off. It is RIDICULOUSLY reliable. It is very handy. Easy to maintain. And the cartridge will dispatch anything from black bear on down.
Of course if one had to defend themselves with it the rifle will certainly work, though there are much better options out there.
Unless you need to stab someone WITH your rifle. What now?
@@eriklarson9137 bayonet....
@@eriklarson9137 Or you need to grenade someone.
@@varanid9 SKS grenades are a thing.
@@chasewebb7417 yes they are on the Yugo models they have the grenade launcher attached to the end of the barrel as a muzzle device and has grenade launching sites above the gas tube.
One of my biggest regrets in life is not getting a couple of these when they were in every gun store and pawn shop for 75-90 bucks.
As nice as the SKS is, my personal regret was not buying all the cheap AK parts kits that were also sub $100. I did buy hundreds of them, but I wish I bought a hundred more and held on to them rather than selling them off as I built them over the years. One of the best deals I ever got was 20 IO inc AK for $150 (fully assembled with TAPCO internals). There were bad reviews about them exploding, but I had 4 we used in training that had well over 50K rounds each and no issues other than the rivets coming loose and needing to be restaked, which is an issue on all AKM.
Heck even the moist nugget, I wish I bought more as they are now worth as much as $600 once you do the basic work on them (bolt, muzzle, stock finish) which takes like 2 hours at most.
I bought a Russian Tula SKS 45 around 10 years ago, still in the retail box with all the accessories and it even came with an ATI Fiberforce polymer stock, which I of course never used. I paid just under $400. only shot it a few times, and it's been put up in the box since then. They're on Gunbroker now for $1500 - $2000.
Бро...привет из Тулы..💪
I got one of those back in when they were dumped into the USA. It was still coated in the greenish grease. Beautiful rifle. Small, on purpose of course, so I had to put a different stock on it.
Cosmoline is the perfume of the milsurp owner.
@@VexChoccyMilk id shoot my nagant so much itd boil out of the stock after 50 rounds in a stump haha
Bubba no
Do you mean casmolein?
The SKS was for the Soviets what the M-14 was to the US. An improvement over it's predecessor but not a radical change. I acquired my Russian SKS with matched scope for $130 in 2000.
That's what I was thinking. Looks like an OG scout rifle. If I had the options, I'd probably go with the Socom 16.
Great price!!
In the late 90s and early 2000s I suppose it was extremely easy and cheap to lay your fingers on classic pieces of Soviet/Russian weaponry that now cost incalculable amount of cash.
I'll buy it off you for 200, lol
I remember when these were cheap and plentiful. We used to buy them for $90/each packed in grease and the ammo was DIRT Cheap - those were the days. The SKS is one hell of a rifle if you look at it for what it is.
Im Canadian, this is what I've got to work with. You could get a soviet SKS for 150$ 10 years ago unfired and packed in cosmoline. Lots of surplus ammo around still.
Go Canaduh! Khunts
funny how a russian rifle blanketed canada like no other lol
Now they are running up to $530 a pop, with a pin limiting them to 5 rounds.
We truly are living in dark times :(
@@konradviii5663 wait WHAT??? Even Factory internal magazines are pinned????
@@obviouspseudonym9345 legaly have to be
This is one of the very best rifles ever made.
A bonafide battle rifle, a bonafide shtf choice.
I paid $89 for my SKS. I've put over 1000 rounds through and it's never jammed or had any problems and it is extremely accurate.
How often do you clean it after use?
@@JesusIsGoodTruth I cleaned it in the kitchen sink with hot water to get the cosmaline grease out of it and haven't cleaned it since. I keep it lubricated with the red Lucas Gun Oil.
A buddy always bragged about how trusty his AK47 was. One weekend when we were at the deer lease he tossed it in the creek with a fully loaded magazine. We returned the following weekend and he pulled out of the creek dunked it up and down in the water a few times then emptied the magazine. No jams, no misfires.
The reason those weapons don't jam is because of the lose tolerances between the moving parts.
AR15's have very tight tolerances and will jam with bits of debris in them.
“If you’ve ever screamed in terror after watching what Bubba has done to an SKS, go ahead and hit that subscribe button”
Mine came with a tapco stock, I didn’t do it myself
@Solar General hell is too little punishment for a monster like you
@Solar General real proud of making the rifles objectively worse huh
@@shoelessbandit1581 I'll fookin do it again
The only people that talk shit about a bubbad sks are those who don't own an sks, an sks owner with a shitty $1000 chinese one still covered in cosmoline, and boomer fuds.
When I was 12, my first gun was a russian 1954 tula SKS with a laminated stock that came in a crate covered in a retarded amount of cosmoline. And it came with a separate crate full of 2000rounds of mil surp Czech ammo. That was the best birthday present from my dad I think I ever got. Still one of my favourite rifles.
i am so sick of you rich kids and your $75 rifle. When I was a kid we were so poor, all I got was a stick and I had to chop a tree down to make it borrowing my neighbor's ax to do it. 😁
@@badwolf7367 Did you have to share the stick?
@@mortarion9813 Worse, it became the communal beating stick which he found himself victim to
Damn, that would definitely be the best birthday present ever for me as well.
@Dan Cooper tell us more
I have a Chinese SKS and I absolutely love it. I winded up letting my friend shoot it. And he is now gonna be on the look out for one. He just loves how easy it is to shoot and the accuracy.
In some alternate timeline where FPSRussia didn't get raided by the feds this would be the collab video where Kyle runs in with an SKS to battle GarandThumb with a Garand.
Is that what happened to FPS?!
@@kophereh Weed charge got him to lose the right to own firearms.
The SKS was my first gun. My Grandfather took me to a pawn shop in Texarkana TX and we bought 2 for $35 each. Then built a deer stand and carried it almost a mile back into the woods. Memories of family long gone but not forgotten. Thanks for the vid !!!
I remember seeing them at the gunshows at 4states fair grounds in Texarkana for $150 . And paid $700 for my soviet a couple years ago. My how times have changed lol
Shame that prices are now about 20 times that lol
SKS is so hyped. It's not that reliable. That's why they made AK-47.
@@JohnKickboxing they're fine for the price they were at years ago. That's where the hype comes from. They're still reliable if they're left factory. I've had 8 of them of various origins. All ran flawlessly with hollow points, 154gr soft points, fmj, etc etc. In fact every single one out ran the poverty state armory mid length I bought on an impulse for being so cheap. Are they worth over about $300? Absolutely fucking not. Are they reliable? Very.
And before anyone talks about mud and ice and all that do remember the AK failed both garandthumbs and inranges mud tests.
I'd rather drop 1000 or more on a quality AR than on another sks or ak. But if I was broke like a lot of people I'd snatch up a norinco. The Chinese sks is better than no rifle at all.
I remember in the crate sks for 99$
this was the first gun I ever bought for myself. a yugo sks. I mistakenly got a "tactical" polymer stock for it, swapping out the original wood stock. I don't know what I did with the original stock but man I regret changing it out.
Back in the 90's i though I needed a stock that was 2 feet long so I bought a polymer stock for it and a 30 round detachable magazine. I did the smart thing and kept the wood stock and lost the standard magazine. I have put back on the wood stock and have purchased and installed a factory 10 round magazine after learning how to shoot the SKS better.
I did nearly the same thing except I sold it all a year later. :| Still regret that…
The first rifle I purchased was also a Yugo SKS, I bought it about 7 years ago from some guy in his garage. (no longer legal to do here.) Paid $300. It's a pretty dang battle worn rifle mostly numbers matching, and has functioned flawlessly. I bought an archangel mag for it, original style sling and muzzle brake. I love it!
i changed out my chinese wood stock out for a tacticool folder stock, only because im not a tiny little chinese dude and i needed more length, giggity. but i kept all of my original parts for if and when i ever want to put it back to its original form.
Yep, I did the same thing with my Norico SKS. I had mine back in the early 1990s, tacti-cooled it with a folding polymer stock and ended up selling it to the foreman at my painter job. I've regretted it ever since. Luckily I ran into a girl about 10 years ago who was looking to sell another that her boyfriend owned and he was no longer allowed to own it since he was locked up. I picked it up for $200.
The very first firearm I bought at 18 was a Chinese SKS from Dong's gun shop in Tulsa OK, paid 89.00 dollars for it in 1993, a nice Chicom model with milled receiver and threaded barrel, I put several thousand rounds through it before I could afford to add more guns to my collection, I absolutely adored that rifle and I still have it. I also recently inherited my dad's Russian SKS and will be taking it to the range the next time I go. Boy that was the heyday of Chinese steel core ammo, id be rich today if I hadn't shot it with reckless abandon lol. Great video as usual!
Oh my God you're so freaking hilarious and your reviews are incredible! I just stumbled across you because I was wanting to watch a video about the SKS I had never seen any of your videos before this one I'm a subscriber now because you're just freaking hilarious you do your reviews so well you make it so fun and you don't try to get too technical and make yourself sound smart spouting off with so many technical terms that's great
I got 2 SKS Russian rifles, unfired, $75 each. If I’d know they are worth $1000 would have bought a case of them.
Gunbroker time
They’re not worth 1000 lol
$75 for a reliable gun?
America, where you can also get an M4 variant for $5,000.
1000 when fully cleaned and they need to be very pretty
@@SDADDYWSL1TR3Y MA gun shop, 900 for a unfired complete kit version.
The SKS, aka "That gun I should've bought back in the day...."
I own 3 and approve this message
I got my sks back in 1990 I love that little gun. It is dependable and powerful enough to get the job done. If you have good connections the ammo is affordable.
Joke in Canada is there are so many SKS's that it's a Canadian national gun. It really is the USSR's gift to our country. The mag size restrictions in our country make an SKS a very attractive prospect, and although they are a plenty here, their price has slowly rose. I got mine for 220 CAN, a Chinese '61 model, in 2016. Its worth triple that now. It was the first gun I owned, and I have a special place in my heart for this beautiful machine.
I like to picture Mike as doing tactical movements while doing everyday things like running the vacuum or washing dishes.
Tactical Broom
@@Saanonymous80 Sweep the house
While while wearing a french maid’s outfit? 😂🤣😂
@@mmcnew1 Just the mental picture of that made me comfortably blind.
He uses flash-bangs to sweep the floor and hangs the clothes to dry on the razor wire lining the back yard,
Sks was the first semi auto rifle i could afford to buy in my early 20s , loved that thing ,accurate af and shoots snooth
me too..
Great advice at the end man. Having just nursed someone through to their passing away, I can totally relate to it.
I watch this video every couple of weeks!!!! Well done and so much fun !!!
Cheers Man 👍
СКС - прекрасная винтовка. У меня СКС 1953 года, сделаный ещё при Сталине.
Год выпуска обычно наносится на крышку ствольной коробки.
Если год не указан, можно поискать таблицы с привязкой номера к году выпуска.
Хромировать стволы начали в 1953 году, до этого стволы были не хромированные. Клейма о прохождении арсенального ремонта есть практически на всем оружии, так как при снятии винтовок с вооружения, перед отправкой на склад длительного хранения все оружие отправляется в артиллерийскую мастерскую где проходит обязательную проверку и ремонт (если это необходимо).
Привет из России.
Спасибо за интересное видео.
P.S.: надеюсь, Google translation правильно переведёт мое сообщение.
Та ти що...при сталінє...оце круть...так може візьмеш свій скс та приїдеш до України денацифікувати дитячі садочки та лікарні,бо твої братушкі не тягнуть-😁"горят на работе"😄🇺🇦
@@user-di9gg3lh3t «дядя Петя, ты дурак?» (с)
Блин, всегда хотелось хотя бы раз подержать этот карабин
Как раз выбираю первую нарезь. Теперь задумался 🤔
Есть ли у вас сведения, в каких войнах использует росия такие винтавки сейчас? В украине сейчас воюют ими или нет?
I love my Russian SKS! It was my first long rifle. Went in with the intent to by a Chines SKS for $89, the shop was full of them ,and then I saw five SKS that looked just a bit different. These where Russian made and cost $115 needless to say I bought the Russian version and do not regret it one bit.
Simonov's hypotenuse, or SIMONOV's oblique bolt, ALL the best weapons of the USA and Europe are A COPY of SIMONOV's BOLT, Belgian and the best German weapons were stolen from Sergei Simonov, if you want to learn more there is a book
china Norincos are MUCH better then the russian
У меня в сейфе стоит СКС 1954 года выпуска - чего и вам желаю! С приветом из России!
Служил я с таким .Хорошая пушка , только на морозе проблема заряжать.
I’ve owned over a dozen SKS rifles since 1989 and as long as you are using the original box magazine it is 100% reliable, never experienced a single malfunction, don’t put all that aftermarket junk on a perfect SKS!
My dad bought me a Russian SKS when I graduated High School last year and 2 crates of Romanian surplus ammo. First gun I owned and he got me a piece of history. Shoots like a dream, easy to clean and I’m never letting go of it.
SKS were great when they were super cheap. The price has gone up a lot over the years, even the surplus 7.62x39
75 bucks a rifle and 10c a round! Good times. I put thousands of rounds through mine in high school
@Warlok probably none, since that's not a market anyone is producing for. Nobody is mass-producing 10-round, internal magazine, semi-auto guns in this day and age.
PSA has em for $420.
@@shoelessbandit1581 Still just your preference. I'd personally take an SKS over a Gay-R.
@@shoelessbandit1581 The people buying them now probably already have an AR-15. It's mostly collectors going after SKSs now.
My dad has 3 Yugoslavians. All matching numbers , never fired. They are so beautiful!!
I bought a 30 round, fixed mag for mine. Runs great and looks really good.
Top tip: when having difficulty charging rounds from a stripper clip, place your thumb on the top round close to the clip while using your index to lift the bullet tip upwards a bit, and it should work without binding.
don't forget to charge it without removing your fingers, get in on that little-known SKS Thumb
also the clips matter too. The best I have found are the bxn surplus, they run so fucking smooth.
One of the cool things about the SKS is you can dump load the magazine by inverting the rifle with a closed bolt, opening the mag, move the base and spring up and out of your way, dump ten loose rounds, all pointed the same way of course, shake slightly and close the base, reinvert the rife, cycle the bolt and begin to pew pew pew. Is it slower than with a stripper clip? You betcha. But if all you can find on the ground is loose rounds then it will keep you at least somewhat in the action without having to place single rounds in the top. I always enjoy your take on weapons systems, new and old.
And by then you're dead🤣
YUUUUUUUUP 👍😆😆 SO FUN !!
Absolute favorite youtuber and great wise words at the end!
Sound advice in the final minute. Great gun, great review.
I grew up with one in the house. Deer hunting involved hounds, the sks wasn't anyone's favorite but it performed possibly as good as anything. Never felt under gunned. Still Comfortable with these old tanks
SKS is the rite of passage for most people, at least here in Canada. Its the "starter kit".
Despite being an average gun, it has the potential to be the most valuable. Its low ammo cost keeps for more ammo down the range, and that means more exp and trigger time. They can hit a head sized target at 185m without much problem, with a 150$ scope and barnaul ammo, consistently.
Average maybe? in the hands of an untrained fool? ..and even a fool with this machine would have a fair chance...with the correct skill set..in place...
SKS is a pretty bad ass small range sniper in Europe/balkans War so i don't know what the hell are you talking when you say starter kit mate.
@@the-btc-tradingfloor2808 Estatisticaly average, there are better weapons. No one is saying it is bad, it is an awesome gun, really accurate, but, in hard numbers it is indeed average.
@@alistuzlak its a Infantary rifle originally, it enter in mass production when AK was created it turned into a Military Parade rifle, its not a Sniper or DMR
@@Russinh0 i am from Jugoslavia so i don‘t need a explantation on what it is.in Jugoslavia it was called Papovka and she did very well on close range sniping. Thats all i ment. Surely its not a dragunov i know that but it‘s not a dmr?cmon. But when i mentioned balkan wars you still had the urge to correct me on a riffle as we „used“ it again as low range sniper. Because the riffle at least the yu 59/66 sks dmr aka papovka semi automatic riffle. So?
What a fantastic episode really enjoyed this one as usual
I love it that Garand thumb can make everything look tactical, even the really old stuff
I was wondering when you'd make an SKS video this morning: this is crazy.
I went to watch that video you made years ago and wished you made a new one.
You are basically reading my mind.
The SKS is a very decent rifle... very underrated by many. I have a Chinese SKS and it has always functioned well and been very reasonably accurate for what it is.
Me too, mine has 35 round mags
@Dan Trebune I have one with the Tapco kit and 20 round mags. It works well.
@Dan Trebune The sks extended mags and even the drum mags work really well. The biggest issue you run into is that the front protrusion is oversized so you have to grind it down to match your specific SKS model. It's done this way intentionally in order to be compatible with a wide variety of rifles. If you don't do this the fit is really bad and hard to insert completely in.
Also if you have a Russian SKS, you need to grind the bottom of the bolt so you can insert and remove mags with the bolt closed. This is easy to do with an angle grinder and won't affect function with the 10 round mag.
@Dan Trebune yep, it runs like an ak-47.
@@DaveSmith-cp5kj you have to grind the Chinese ones too, I did with mine.
I got mine from my dad. He has a collector's ffl and got a bunch of different military surplus rifles back in the 80's when I was just a baby. He gave me a few in my mid 20's when I started buying my own guns. Great gun.
We Chinese PLA used to adopt SKS technology and remade into Type 56 Semi-auto rifle in 1956. In the early model, we kept the blade bayonet same as Russian one. After certain years, the blade bayonet was changed into spike bayonet.
I remember when my father owned a pawn shop one of the guns that came in one day was an SKS that was used in the Yugoslav wars. It had a bayonet lug, it used to have a grenade launcher, and it had the conversion so it could take AK mags.
What a cool piece of history. Thing saw action not too long ago .
My father used to have one here in australia, the AK mag variety and the normal variety used to be really popular here
@@thomasa5619 shame Howard stole that from us in '96. what state are ya in mate?
@@djcoopes7569 qld
@@thomasa5619 you lucky blokes over there, you guys get WFA1's, SP-15s, MPR308s, etc
I was fortunate enough to get one of the Chinese models that takes the ak mags. I’ve had it for over 20 years and it has always functioned exceptionally well.
SKS-D
@@Mike27MB yes or the M I believe. I think they had 2 models. Taking ak mags definitely enhances it over 10 round strippers.
Picked up and norinco sks with sporter thumbhole stock and uses ak mags. Rural king had Croatian ak mags for 11.99$ so I bought all they had left. Added and dust cover with rail and a red dot to keep it simple.
@@eddiewhite9759 Bubba no
I only had one malfunction in the few years I had mine and I shot the hell out of it
My grandfather served with SKS in Soviet Army in early 50' on Franz Josef Land in Arctic Ocean.
I haven't shot too many guns but I LOVED shooting the SKS. The guy who let me shoot it said it seemed a lot of people veer towards that one as their favorite for some reason.
they are smooth, light recoiling and easy to use sights. and nothing to fumble with or lose because the magazine is self contained. usually the only negative i can find with them is the trigger but that can be worked on rather easily or just smoothed out with a lot of use.
Finally! After all these years, the rifle of Elbonia is featured on Garand thumb. Good timing I hear they just replaced the last few in service
Is this the same elbonia as referenced in Dilbert, or is elbonia a real place? Google only comes up with dilbert.
@@epauletshark3793 our main export is mud
@@epauletshark3793 Elbonia has become a fictional eastern European country that over the course of several different FAQ videos by creators such as Ian from Forgotten Weapons, Chieftain of World of Tanks fame and military aviation have over time organically developed. The joke of Elbonia is that the head of weapons procurement is a traitor and only picks weapons that seem like a good idea or can be argued on paper not to be bad, but in practice are absolutely terrible.
@@Tirak117 thanks.
@@epauletshark3793 It's a reference to Forgotten Weapons which is referring to Dilbert
SKS is one of the best rifles ever made. Can’t go wrong with any of the models . Just take care of your rifle and it’ll outlast you and stay in your family for generations to come.
Simonov's hypotenuse, or SIMONOV's oblique bolt, ALL the best weapons of the USA and Europe are A COPY of SIMONOV's BOLT, Belgian and the best German weapons were stolen from Sergei Simonov, if you want to learn more there is a book
@Летающий Пакетик ? где там шутка?? изучи вопрос затвора
The thing I always liked is no need to for mags or sights or anything. Just bring the gun and ammo, seems way easier to me.
But reloading is a bitch, and even it can jam. Yes I have one 1953 Tula.
@@user-kc5qb5sg7m а еще вы море черное выкопали ахахах)) от вас уже весь мир устал, заEбете даже лепешку коровью xD
My SKS is my first rifle, and still my only rifle currently. I absolutely love it. Whoever owned it before my uncle, put it in a poly frame though. I’m going to compete with it at the tactical games this summer in Bend, OR, even debating being the only guy to compete with iron sights as well!!
How did you do in the games, did you compete with open sights?
What a great final words of wisdom at the end!
Have a Portuguese family friend who fought in Angola in the Portuguese colonial wars and speaks highly of the "simonova" rifle that he came up against.
From memory from the stories he used to tell, they were paid to bring back any "liberated" firearms and the SKS was one of the highest paid arms.
I am Portuguese, Ive heard crazy stories too
Should have left the Africans alone lol
@@Troupe_Master should have fought to the end for the lusotropicalism lol
If there were a category of firearms denoted "Civil Utility Rifle" the SKS would be the bare minimum perfectly fitting that classification.
I got mine for bucks and big cats while being a good target/plink rifle that's not to expensive to feed
a good rifle is an m2 garand, 3006, will put anything down, or a british 3003
@@xvp40virus great round but the grand actually isn't that great the operating system makes for more recoil and they are a bitch to take down
@@xvp40virus Never heard of an "M2 Garand"
Sure, especially with prices here at around 400eur new. One can buy almost new, not like his very used SKS he has. It does everything you want like capacity is good, caliber fine and very cheap, we don't have problems with people shooting people here so it is not allowed for defense or hunting (semi auto..).
It would be ultimate rifle if living in mountains or somewhere far away, it is so durable only a bit of cleaning and usual fixing of sights. Nothing else is needed.
A Chines Type 56 was my first "long gun" that I ever bought. My second was a 336 Marlin. I let that go long ago... and then I accumulated a really nice collection of them from the various countries and then... those got away too... So I recently found a nice 1966 vintage Triangle 26 slathered in cosmoline and the price was a reasonable $479...on gunbroker of all places and made the purchase. It only took about an hour of cleaning with a lot of paper towels, a toothbrush and a little kroil to get it cleaned up. Bore is like new (love the chrome lined bores!). The metal parts are in VG condition.. the wood didn't fare as well - about good maybe but it has character and this is all matching serial numbers and came complete with it's spike bayo. Thanks for the vid!
Garand Thumb, man of focus, commitment and sheer will.
My Chinese SKS is my favorite rifle. The process of using the clips and the general feel of the gun is super fun.
There's actually a common misconception that the SKS saw service in WW2 in 7.62x39mm, the reality is that what actually saw service was the SKS-31. Which is a short carbine length version chambered in full power 7.62x54R. Only about 37 examples made it to rear line units who praised its light weight but the excessive blast, noise and recoil from firing meant the weapon was extremely unpleasant to shoot.
хорошая историческая справка
Nice piece of information, I didn't know that
.54R in a short carbine sounds like shoulder pain and a half lol
That sounds unpractical yet awesome.
Great rifle, country where i used to live produced and used them in numbers beside AK. They reliable, precise enough, durable, ergonomics are quite good too, caliber fine, work under all conditions and so on. So great all around rifle, here not so much because semi auto is not allowed but if i lived in the US SKS would certainly be my workhorse, beside Mauser of course.
I really liked remark about the social media, wish more people told it the same way. Thanks.
Where do you live?
I didn't think much about them when I seen it for about $150. Now, I'm really wishing I would have bought a few of them.
I bought my Russian SKS on the recommendation of a World War II veteran. He stated that the Russian was worth the extra money as compared to the Chinese SKS. He added that he would have preferred the lighter SKS on Iwo Jima to the M1 Garand that he carried.
Depends. The Sino soviets SKS rifles are made on russian tooling and made by russian gunsmiths who were training Chinese gunsmiths. I have a factory 26 1956 first year production SKS and mine runs better then my friends Yugo and my other friends russian. So it really depends. If it’s after 1958 and it isn’t a factory 26, stay away from the Chinese ones. Otherwise if you get an early factory 26 it’s basically the same as a russian one
ammo capacity was crucial during the time
why you call it Russian? it was made in USSR by German engineers , how it connected to Russia?
@@alexshapovalov1847 German occupiers made it ? Genuinely interested, didn’t know this
@@EchoLeague2 man aaaak47 sks - german enginners Hugo Schmeisser spent 1945-1952 in USSR - he was creator of Ak 47 and other stuff. And there is no doubt that it surely could not be called Russian...
My granpa had a SKS while he was training in our version of the navy back in '64, 3 week ago he passed away, this video is a good homage for him... RIP
My condolences. I wish him a peaceful rest.
respect
Condolences.
I had a couple SKS in 7.6X39.
To me it was the perfect weapon. Even though it didn’t have a removable magazine (stock anyway)
It’s reliability and accuracy and power were a perfect mix IMHO
I grabbed a Type 56 Carbine from J&G years ago as a cracked stock special. The stock was pretty gnarly, and the cosmoline was a pain in the ass. I ended up finding a new-old jungle stock from Interarms made by the Chinese. It took about 8 hours total to fit it to my rifle, and it was 100% worth it.
This was the first semi auto center fire rifle I bought when I turned 18 back in the late 90s...I ran cases of cheap surplus ammo through it and treated it pretty rough. It just kept on ticking though....good times.
Same here. $120 with ammo & all the goodies back in '97 right after I got married, & in time for Y2K! I sure do miss our apocalypses from back then when all we had to worry about was Al Gore, & our computers not understanding the year 2000. My fourteen-year-old son just convinced me to give him it. Bittersweet, but glad it will serve one of my kids for decades to come.
Islamic proselytizing
Same here only mine is a yugo still love it
If anyone out there has a Russian SKS with serial number BE 770, please let me buy it. My father gave it to me before he passed away and when I was living in Colorado I had to sell it because I was in some really hard times back around 2005. It still breaks my heart thinking about it because he never really gave me much.
@we will do it that’s not an SKS silly bot
Good luck dude! The world is a weird place, anything is possible.
@@mattfleming86
Thanks 👍
Anything is possible.
Thanks man. That's actually great advice there at the end.
I love this thing, luckily I got mine for under 200 back in the day. I’d still pay $600 for one since I live in Canada and rifles like the M10X and WK-180 are extremely expensive and unreliable.
Same here!
Can Usa citizens purchase guns in Canada??
We used it in basic training, mainly to break the fear of weapons. It is insanely accurate.
@@etvonrashke3763 if you're getting 6 moa then theres something wrong with your bore.
@@no.7893 I think the point is SKS has a reputation of mediocre accuracy at best. It's a crudely machined soviet semi auto. Usually don't expect better than 2 or 3moa
@@ravenstarver1360 2 or 3 moa is plently good for what it's designed for. If you want match level accuracy get a competition gun.
@@ravenstarver1360 the yugo 59/66's are much more accurate due to no chrome bore imo. Typically tack drivers out to 200ish but that that point your ammo becomes much more important and everyone is shooting crappy steel cased soviet ammo.
The rifle I learned to shoot (with the triangular bayonet). Some AKs had that same attached bayonet set-up.
Those last words word spot on, good job!
That point were you long paused between short stroke n long stroke was priceless. That and who doesnt like to penatrate things.full metal jacket comes to mind!snookie pa.💥🤟💥
Many of Jack-o-lanterns have tasted the blade on my Yugo before being magdump melted through the face. It never gets old.
I had a Russia SKS that I had to sell back in 2016 and regretted it for a long time, finally found another very nice Russian SKS
at a decent price back in 2019. Love having it back great rifle.
What did it go for in 2019?
@@oryan4395 think I got it for $500 ish which is not great but not current prices either. This one is in about the same shape as my one i had to sell and that one i got for $200 back in 2012.
@@josephpieroni6681 yeah I paid $200 for mine about 2011/12 too so I was curious how much the price has changed. Thanks for answering my question.
You could get 20 round magazines for the SKS back in the 90's as well as 30 and 50 round detachable mags. Though bayonets and anything larger than a 10 round mag was outlawed in several states while still in the 90's.
My 1st rifle, grandpa gave all his grandsons one when we turned 12. He had a box of 5,000 rounds in the basement and we'd get a box of 20 every time we went hunting, that lasted us all for a long time.
"If you have a short stroke piston and not a long stroke, it's just part of growing up"-Garand Thumb Lol😂
Same horsepower, just higher RPM.
@@brandonrobertson6327 LMAO
@@brandonrobertson6327 I'm using that one. Thanks.
@@hendo338 👍
My dad was issued a Yugoslav SKS, known as the Papovka (stemming from abv PAP - semi-automatic rifle) and they were indeed well made.
Tako je brate M59 najjači haha
NIce
Got that exact rifle except that mine is a original 1954 sks all matching serial numbers on all the different parts of the weapon. Beautiful firearm!
One of the best weapons ever built !
Years ago I had one of the Chinese SKS-Ds. With a detachable magazine. It also accepted AK mags. Was $30 more and sold for a nice price.
I want one so bad. I lust over those rifles
@@grantodamax Id commit any sin for a rifle.
Wowww how much does your mum cost?
i have a Chinese SKS 56 , price of $139 in 80's , one time i saw they have a cute cloth bullet pouch , still regret did not buy it
God damn, did it cycle well? Cuz I would definitely shoot the hell out of it with 30 rounds
Fun fact: every Tula SKS between 1949-1954 has a gas tube with electro stencil marks, whether it was refinished or not, stamping them crushed the gas tubes. Simply how they were manufactured from the Tula plant.
In 1993, I bought two Russian SKSs. One, I put on a bunch of aftermarket add ons. But I just changed it back to the original set up a couple days ago before I might lose the original parts.
Love your final message