jsmallwood
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Hi all. I found a Norinco SKS in great shape that is a 1967 Arsenal 26. Seller wants $450 for it. Is that too much in today's current market? I've heard the 26's demand a higher price than cheaper chinese sks's.
Norinco SKS Arsenal 26
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I think 450 is too high unless it comes with a bunch of ammo.
I don't know if they have more value then the others but have a old arsenal 26 with miss match numbers that has served me very well. It is a early version with blade bayo and the fit and finish is not much worse then the Russian I had. But I had a few other Chinese with different makers and they all worked about the same.
I don't know if they have more value then the others but have a old arsenal 26 with miss match numbers that has served me very well. It is a early version with blade bayo and the fit and finish is not much worse then the Russian I had. But I had a few other Chinese with different makers and they all worked about the same.
I had a new-in-box Norinco SKS that had sat in a safe for years and years, unfired. I bought it a couple of years ago and paid $275 for it when you could buy any other SKS for $100-$150 range. People thought I was crazy but it was a great gun. Check the dates of production at arsenal 26, I forget what the last two years were but mine was made the last year they made the SKS there and the machining was perfect, well polished, excellent fit and finish, best I'd seen on an SKS, that's why I paid so much for it. I've heard that production slowed in the last two years and those were desirable years, I just don't remember what years those were. Some SKS sites can supply that info.
check here: http://www.sksboards.com/smf/index.php
railroader
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http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=160964&highlight=paratrooper Here's a rare one for sale but expensive. I have one like it. Mark
jsmallwood
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Great. Thanks for the info guys. I'll keep looking around then.
There are some arsenal 26 floating around that are less desirable ... they don't have a threaded barrel and usually have norinco brand . If its is a older chinese arsenal 26 it usually has deeper orange wood or the really ugly fiberglass orange or brown stock and have a threaded barrel and no norinco brand .
bustersmaster
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I bought one a few months ago that was advertized in the local newspaper classified for $175. It looks like a solid 90% + condition and so far seems to shoot every cheap brand of ammo I feed it. I sold a Yugo to make room for this one. It was in the same very good condition, but was kind of picky about the ammo I fed it. I sold that one for $230. The Yugo did seem to have a nicer trigger than my norinco. This one is kind of long and gritty. It seemed to improve after using some synthetic grease in it, but I may opt to get a trigger job on it. I wish Tapco made a trigger group for the sks, the one in my ak is fantastic.
I bought one a few months ago that was advertized in the local newspaper classified for $175. It looks like a solid 90% + condition and so far seems to shoot every cheap brand of ammo I feed it. I sold a Yugo to make room for this one. It was in the same very good condition, but was kind of picky about the ammo I fed it. I sold that one for $230. The Yugo did seem to have a nicer trigger than my norinco. This one is kind of long and gritty. It seemed to improve after using some synthetic grease in it, but I may opt to get a trigger job on it. I wish Tapco made a trigger group for the sks, the one in my ak is fantastic.
It's the old "supply and demand" question. One's location can have quite an impact, owing to the wide variation in firearms laws from state to state. I would expect to see higher prices being asked for an SKS in states like California, Illinois or New York as compared with a state such as Kentucky or Tennessee or Texas.