sks prices

[Rush Je3p]

I know back in the day you use to get these for $100
and i understand that the prices are going up
But did I miss something , when people have a bone stock sks and think that it is worth trading for an AR.
When did AR's and SKS's become the same price?

 

[Blue bio balls]

Especially with a crapy stock and detachable mags....

 

[shootin4fun]

I know back in the day you use to get these for $100
and i understand that the prices are going up
But did I miss something , when people have a bone stock sks and think that it is worth trading for an AR.
When did AR's and SKS's become the same price?

I was with my dad in 1988 at a gun show and he paid $66 bucks a piece for 3. Still have them. Don’t know why the value is over 400 on some. Depends on the year and import marks and make I guess. There was a crappy non-matching one at the show this weekend for 650. No thanks. Lol

 

[palmettomoon]

Sold one at the Perry show for $600.

 

[BC1]

I know back in the day you use to get these for $100
and i understand that the prices are going up
But did I miss something , when people have a bone stock sks and think that it is worth trading for an AR.
When did AR's and SKS's become the same price?

Just pre covid you could build an AR for around $400 if you shopped carefully. An SKS was about $350-$400 so there is some basis for even up prices.
But me, I'm waiting for them to be worth a scar17 and then I'll trade (lol).

 

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

Yeah, as of several years ago SKS's crossed the $300 line and were pushing $400 in good condition with a bayonet, or decent aftermarket stock or some duckbill 30-round mags.
If they're selling for $600 now, I guess that's just because AR's are selling for $1200 and SKS's are seen as being about half the value.

(Even at $600, it's a lot of gun for the money. One SKS and 100 rounds on stripper clips could be used by a formerly helpless sheep to put a lot of hurtin' on a group of criminals that attack his home, or go around looting and burning in his neighborhood).

 

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

Just pre covid you could build an AR for around $400 if you shopped carefully. An SKS was about $350-$400 so there is some basis for even up prices.
But me, I'm waiting for them to be worth a scar17 and then I'll trade (lol).

Comparing an all-factory SKS rifle, unmolested, not bubbafied, with somebody's basement-built Frankengun isn't fair. Compare the factory original SKS to factory-built guns being offered as they came out of the box, from popular (though not necessarily high end) AR manufacturers.

 

[Alaskan]

Wait until the Billy bob Bullpup moded ones hit the ODT market again. Living in a neckbeards paradise!

 

[letusbuyyourcar]

I know back in the day you use to get these for $100
and i understand that the prices are going up
But did I miss something , when people have a bone stock sks and think that it is worth trading for an AR.
When did AR's and SKS's become the same price?

Somewhere around 10 years ago. I would trade a 7.5" build for a bone stock SKS right now. As for a Tapco Craptastic Custom SKS... Oh he'll no!
I still love an SKS right up to about the $250.00 point. Beyond that they lose all their appeal to me. Oh and I would love to SBR a stock SKS with the front sight moved all the way back to the gas tube.

 

[letusbuyyourcar]

Sold one at the Perry show for $600.

Wasn't that the price for a crate of them "Back in the day"?