the rooftop koreans didn't buy their SKSs, they just knew a guy who knew a guy in the old country, whose cousin made a few hundred fall off a truck forty years earlier
SKS is NOT an uglier older brother. It's an elegant older sister. An older sister that isn't with the times, but goddamn does she have a classical elegance and would still wreck your day if your underestimate her.
Say what you want about the SKS...every time I take it to the range, I get lots of compliments on it. Affordable, simple, reliable, battle-proven. I love that gun.
I could literally turn my chair around and grab both an AK and an SKS. I'm actually a better shot with the SKS. My WASR-10 was bought used, but that Norinco SKS... Ahh, the sweet smell of Cosmoline. SKS good.
@@henryrodgers7386 Totally agree. My Romanian AK is very well built, but ya know... I've outshot AK's on every occasion with that Norinco SKS. Especially once we stretch it out a bit... beyond, ah, forty feet. LOL
My Grandpa served in the soviet army in the 60's. He was one of the best shooters. So when he left the army and became a bus driver, he would sometimes bring reservist officers to a gunrange to practice shooting. In the Winter the Officers would shiver because of the Cold, so my Grandpa just did the shooting for them.
@@captainrutabeggacrossout8482 Hey, since a few Soviet Russian soldiers were sent to Vietnam to help the Commie Vietnamese, maybe your grandparents could have met each other and coexisted happily ever after!
I'm an old Fudd now, but I got my SKS when I was a broke college kid who couldn't afford a good AK. I also have a MAK-90......oops, he said a GOOD ak. I'm so old, I used my SKS in a speech in my college speech class. I showed how to field strip and clean an SKS. Try doing that today.......LOL
Back around 1990-92 they were selling SKS rifles new out of the crate for $75 (all day long), I never brought one, mainly due to M1 Garand's were selling for under $200, M1 Carbines for under $150, and 1917 Enfields under $200. One could even pickup .303 British Enfields for under $75.
I still have a page out of the old recycler (LA classified trade paper) that showed all the good stuff in 1987. Sks was $99, AK maybe $149. Top level stuff like HK91 was $599. Colt Ar15 HBAR was $599, galil $600. All ammo was $89/1000. 22LR was $5/500, I never bought any of that really cheap stuff, I wonder why? 🥸
I wanna go back bros 😢. I remember gun shows where people sold crates of five 91/30s for 150 bucks. Each rifle came with a sling, bayo, twin stripper clip pouch and cleaning kit/oiler can. Also spam cans of old Soviet era 54r for .02 cents per round.
A lot of venison was put in freezers with SKSs by many people I know up here in the north woods. That was back when an SKS could be had for $75 pulled straight out of a crate and still packed in cosmoline.
@@girhen no shit and what I got I'm keeping in a safety deposit box. If you don't mind me asking what port yo get? I did but had to file the hell out of it
@@j-rocd9507 On ebay, from hacker32: stainless steel Yugo SKS Gas Valves. It's identical to what people described from now-defunct websites, and there is feedback saying it works. It's built a little longer to better seal the gas. Hope it works.
@@girhen maybe its because I'm from a different country but it's our go to "I piss in the gas port and never clean it" rifle. Jamming doesn't ever seem to be an issue just the 5-6 moa that anything but russian ammo provides. (310 bullets vs 308 bullets)
I bought an SKS several years ago when they were only $200-300. It's a Norinco that is in really good shape with a TWENTY (yep I typed 20) round internal magazine. I put a B-Square scope mount on it with a UTG Bugbuster scope so that I can still use stripper clips to load it. I replaced the firing pin with a spring loaded one (no more bump fires). I'd sell my dead mother's urn before I'd sell it.
I bought 4 SKS's back in the early 90's and gave one each to my 3 boys. I taught them how to shoot and hunt with them. I love these guns. Triggers are real rough off the shelf but that was easily rectified. The one I kept for myself would repeatably shoot under 3", 3 shot groups @75 yards. Not bad for a battle rifle and iron sights. And these are milled receiver guns for what it's worth.
I bought a SKS a few months back from sportsman's warehouse, caked in cosmoline, loaded it up and bang. Wiped some off but I feel it's like oiling it. Feels great on the hands after, silky smooth. Bang bang BANG
Hahaha I thought it was funny the SKS wasn’t on yalls ban list, regardless the fact that bubbas have made kits to turn these into every other gun ever, including bullpups🤣🤙🏽
100% me Red and White bruddah...also to the 'weak and useless' comment all of Alberta's taking a stand and saying we will not comply with the gun grabbers when them come for them
Great rifle, and un-registered here in Canuckistan...that's a very good thing. Can't have AR's anymore, same with AK's. An SKS is a great option, no complaints.
"Most of you are either Fudds or broke collage students who cant afford to own an AK" the SKS is super popular up here in Canada, it's one of the few good self loading rifles that isn't restricted
I remember in high school my best friend's dad told me I needed to buy an SKS while I could. I remember the gun store down the street had them for $129 including a decent amount of ammo (500 rounds if I remember right). I didn't listen to him and damn do I regret it today when I see the prices they're going for now.
I've had my SKS for 20+ years. Shot thousands and thousands of rounds through it. Cleaned it maybe 2 times, It always fires and is plenty accurate to 200 yards. With a nice fiberforce stock, my own design scope mount, and removeable clips it is a great gun.
A million subscribers on youtube is like super saiyan in dragon ball. When goku did it first it was really cool but when everyone and their mom started becoming super saiyan it wasn't cool anymore
@@manictiger this bayonet is created by narrow-eyed Chinese farmers.Original sks have beautiful soviet bayonet of 60G steel, which can perfectly make Borodino bread sandwiches with doctor’s pudding GOST 23670-79
The SKS is my first rifle I ever owned. I changed the firing pin to a spring assisted and made the trigger pull half as light. Ive been told by my ar friends that it shoots just as nice as a well madr ar15. I have done my best to keep it original otherwise and is one of my favorite rifles. I can carry more clips of ammo than magazines tbh
I always thought the sks while a different and unrelated design to either the AK-47 and the Mosin-Nagent rifles, it was the stepping stone between them.
"At the end of the day it really doesn't matter if I like it. Its a piece of history." This. People need to understand this, about everything in the world
@@maxim6088 i can understand the destruction of sovjet monuments in countries that suffered a lot under their rule, but a monument of churchill? seriously? i mean sure the guy wasnt an angel by any measure but he did a lot of good too.
My very first rifle I bought when I was 20 was an SKS that already was "bubbafied". It was a POS. I later bought a Yugo 59/66 with the blade bayonet and grenade launcher attachment. That one is really cool. I liked it so much that I bought my dad the exact same one.
I love my SKS. With a scope it hits accurate and gophers don’t get far. With its wood grain and red hue it is a very beautiful gun. I would not trade it for anything. Its mine and you can’t have it.
My dad and uncle each got dirt cheap SKSs in the 90s, along with a train load of that steel-core ammo they used to have all over the place. They didn't get used very often compared to the lever guns, but when the SKSs did come out it was usually to put a hole through something that no one else could put a hole through. There's a big thicc pipe out by a reservoir they used to camp by, and for the longest time there were only 2 holes in the pipe (one from the SKS round going in, one from it coming out sideways). Now that the standard artillery is no longer the .30-30, there are a lot more holes in that thing, but for a good few years that keyhole steel-core penetration looked very impressive.
He'll they were still $65 up till about 10 yrs ago. Unfortunately I got my Yogu bout 4 yrs ago and had to add $400 to that $65 to get mine. And no ammo.
I turned 17 and just got passed down the type 56 SKS that’s been in my family since my grandfather got it after vietnam. First thing I did was clean the shit out of it. We have been neglecting it for awhile and Iv been wanting to give it a deep clean. But even with the neglect the gun never jammed once and worked like a charm.
Also other than the abrupt back end of the... upper receiver?... the SKS is actually a gorgeous little rifle. The compact dimensions and intermediate cartridge are also good selling points, though it would be better to have it chambered in something with a little more range.
There is something about watching dudes shooting awesome guns that is relaxing and puts the world back on track ... at least for the rest of the evening
Love my SKS. One of my favorites bought mine because of Battlefield Bad Company as a meme but once I kitted it out and got an updated 30 rd magazine it is now one of my favorites to shoot.
Brandon: "I love Soviet firearms and I didn't feel like my collect was complete until I had an SKS" Me: "wait its complete? So then where is the PPSH-41?"
In the south we use the sks for pest control pretty much. My teacher in highschool told me one day he’d just got an sks and first thing he did was dispatch a coyote. Got to love the south, dude looked like Johnny sins you’d never expect him to say he whooped a coyotes whop
I love this platform. I have a mint Chinese 1965 SKS (no bubba) and an unissued Yugo M59/66 that was still packed on cosmoline (replaced the tritium tubes on the night sites and good to go). My EDC is a Radom P-64. Cold War shit rocks. And they're not making any more of it.
I remember in the late seventies early 80's seeing SKS's that were converted like hell into AK look alike's because it they weren't available yet in the legal civilian market they costed A lot !
So what you're saying is its not appropriate to take a SKS and Bubba it into a CBRPS Bullpup kit with AK magazine conversion? Brandon: *Severe Convulsions*
I actually appreciated the modern look and performance you get from CBRPS chassis. Being a southpaw means I eat alotta brass, but could you see the Romanian PSL or it's Zastavian replacement in that Spike chassis. So fugly it's beautiful.
what is there to not like about the SKS? Love those guns. Rugged, ugly, deadly, dependable, plentiful ammo still, accurate, and with a little bit of mods, can attach 20 and 30 rd mags. Have owned several. Never had one malfunction in 1000's of rds.
I got one some years back. Plastic folding stock cut for hi cap mags. When I was walking out a “good old boy” who worked there smiled and shook his head with approval. Never jammed. Wish I would have kept it.
I went to a gun show, at one of the large LA venues, sometime in the 70s. There were what seemed like acres of Russian, German and Japanese rifles, pistols and schtuff. I dismember the price on the SKS, starting at $25.
Got my SKS when I was a Broke ass college kid 35 or 40 years ago. The only Bubba thing I've ever done to it was required by the great state of caLEFTornia. Back in the day, attached bayonets we considered evil. I've heard it called a poor man's mini-30. I don't know about its SHTF viability. But it's still a lot of fun to shoot.
@@bradbauman7594 Are they around $700 to $1000 usd at the moment? I was surprised to see how much they had increased in price over the past year or two.
I love my SKS rifles. I've been an SKS owner since you could get one for $100. Great deer and pig rifle here in the swamps of Southeast Georgia where you only get a 50 yard shot..
My grandpa bought a Norinco SKS “sporter” when he was in the service. With an aftermarket “look-under” scope mount, I gotta say it’s my favorite hunting rifle. The only bad thing I can really say about it is it just will not cycle steel case ammo. She may be cheap, but she still has standards. Meanwhile my RAK-47 made in NC cycles steel case no questions asked. I can shoot a lot farther away with the SKS, but my AK shoots trash and makes it perform like treasure.
I’ll never forget the first time I cleaned it. I fully disassembled it, I didn’t just field-strip it. It has it’s own cleaning kit in the rear of the stock, but we couldn’t find its rod… I made due with a couple borrowed rods from a .38 cleaning kit. My AK rod was either too short or too stubborn to get off the rifle, I can’t remember. Lol There was still this wax in the stock from where they packaged it for shipping.
The tri-bladed bayonet is to make a stronger stabbing blade. Even back in the Civil War, there were plenty of people who had bayonet wounds to the chest stitched up and survived
And there were plenty who didn't survive. Some people die from a single bullet, while there are some who take over 20 rounds before they drop. The world is a crazy place.
@@CertifiedSunset no, a triangle hole is the same as a round hole to close it is just substantially lighter than a solid bar while being substantially stiffer that a flat blade and therefore better at penetrating harder targets without being damaged
I have a norinco sks that I bough in the early 90's for $100. It's is a pretty handy and fun to shoot little ranch rifle. Wish I would have bought a bunch of them back in the day and left them packed in cosmoline to resell now. Could have earned about 600% on my money in 25 years
More like AKs aren't allowed in my country, but we have enough SKS's to equip an Army. Welcome to Canada. Anyone who has firearms in this country atleast has an SKS or has had one. Also SKS-D can use AK mags. Pretty nice.
@@nordoceltic7225 i think in urban war it would be way better to have an AK than an sks. And well trained people would use semi auto on the AK and only auto when it’s necessary for suppressive fire.
I bought a brand new Yugo years ago, still had the packing grease on it for 200$, cleaned up beautifully, accurate out to 100 yds, that's as far as my local ranges goes out to, eats whatever I feed it and I absolutely love it. Brandon keep up the great work, love your videos !!
I hate to say this, but my dad bubba'd an SKS back in the 80's. He, thank God, kept all of the original furniture and will go back on when I get it. #AKGnotificationsquad
Brandon, Norinco made a SKS that accepted a 30 round mag it went by type D or F depending on whom you asked , the rifle was shorter than a traditional SKS and some said it was a Paratrooper edition , if you can locate one which isn't easy , it would be a very interesting video !
I have that exact one you’re talking about, it has a thumb hole stock and a sling, picked it up for 550$ at some random hillbilly gun shop and boy am I glad I did
Family member in Vietnam. Said the SKS was his personal favorite small arms. His argument was you can keep lower cover in fire fight. It always made sense to me if some one is shooting at you get as much cover as you can.
@@zz3690 Yes because it was stored together with the yugo AK and some yugo mausers in civil guard warehouses which were accessible to the civil population and not under oficial military supervision to fight against official yugoslav army sponsored groups aka Serbs.
The first SKS I ever saw was in 1967 at a pawn shop in Oceanside California right next to Camp Pendleton. I was a junior in high school. A Marine had brought it back from Vietnam in his duffle bag in pieces when he figured out that he couldn't put it back together he took it to the pawn shop. The pawn shop owner didn't know what he had and told us it was a Japanese paratrooper rifle. He didn't know how to put it together either. So he sold it to my buddy for $25.00. My buddy and I looked at the pile of parts and then started putting it together. It turned out to be a Chicom SKS complete with spike bayonet in excellent condition. It came with three 10 stripper clips of 7.62x39 ammunition. So my buddy and I took it out to the foothills of San Marcos and each fired 10 rounds. We took it to the next gun show in LA and my buddy sold it for $150.00 and I sold a discharged LAW launcher tube for $75.00. Today I have 3 SKS's in my accumulation a Russian, a Chicom and a Yugo. As you say they aren't the best rifles on the market and none of them would be the first rifle I would grab out of the vault when the balloon slips the string. But they are in my opinion important pieces of firearms history.
The enemy in vietnam used the Russian SKS alone with AK-47's . The squid size force also carried one B-40 lancher tube with rockets. 69th ARMOR recon. 1969.
I like my Yugos and commercial Chinese SKS rifles, but the two early Chinese military examples I have are my favorite. You can tell the fit and finish is (was?) better and they are really smooth. They may have beat up stocks and some finish wear but it gives them character.
@@arch3088 Value (preferences for goods) is subjective, but don't make the error to say that all is relative. Metaphysical relativism leads to moral relativism leads to the collapse of society.
HEY BRANDON! Right now I STILL walk with a PERMANENT LIMP and use Canadian Crutches (Forearm Crutches) to walk with Thanks to one of those "Ugly " Rifles and the "Victor Charles" that was using it. He and I had a Most memorable, BUT SHORT discussion, something about each others parents or lack of! He donated to my collection from the Republic of Vietnam.
I can say I was bubba for all of 6 months. I did the folding stock and "detachable" magazine and scope thing. Scope broke, stock was flimsy and the magazines never worked. Went from simple and functional to hot jam-o-matic shit. I went back to the stock setup and the rifle performed as it should. Also my first experience with garand thumb is with the SKS. I learned that single loading these can come with that risk.
When i turned 11 my dad introduced me to this rifle and i loved it. shot it all the time. I have the most time behind this rifle than any other gun. unfortunately the gun got sold. want too get another one day.
It's all up to preference but honestly for what it is, the SKS is quite an effective rifle so you definitely get your bang for you buck when you buy one. Very accurate, grip feels nice against your shoulder, reliable, and not difficult to disassemble. You also get that nice feeling of an older rifle if you're into that. Can easily hit a target at 100 yards with iron sights. If you want something more combat effective, there's plenty of other guns more suited for that but I would pick this rifle over a lot of others anyday.
*Don't listen to him SKS, you are beautiful in your own wicked way*
You should reload an SKS. That's be fun
I actually use to have one
You are right
I love your relods
My man aleks
“Only purchased by Fudds and broke college kids.”
Rooftop Koreans: Are we a joke to you?
It’s the official gun in the hollows of WV too. There are more than a few million of them here in the Appalachians .
Where are you in WV, I'm near poca and I cant find anyone with an sks lol
the rooftop koreans didn't buy their SKSs, they just knew a guy who knew a guy in the old country, whose cousin made a few hundred fall off a truck forty years earlier
@@baronentertainment362 - they're guarding those stills you can't find either.
@@Phantom0fTheRouter ouchy my feelings
Edit:I misread what you said. I feel like a douche now
SKS is NOT an uglier older brother. It's an elegant older sister. An older sister that isn't with the times, but goddamn does she have a classical elegance and would still wreck your day if your underestimate her.
Chill
Well said
Now that's an excellent way to describe it.
Nee-san...
Sounds like you wanna fuck the SKS lmao
Say what you want about the SKS...every time I take it to the range, I get lots of compliments on it. Affordable, simple, reliable, battle-proven. I love that gun.
>Affordable
@@markrichards7452 I'm glad I got mine for 300 a few years ago...can't find one for that now...
@@markrichards7452Well, maybe the Chinese or possibly Yugo ones, otherwise..
What Battles
@@douglassmith6872 Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, there are even pics of them in Iraq.
*Pets AKMS with one hand, SKS with the other*
"Daddy loves both you, you make the bang real good. Don't listen to the White Claw addict"
XD
600th like
I could literally turn my chair around and grab both an AK and an SKS.
I'm actually a better shot with the SKS. My WASR-10 was bought used, but that Norinco SKS...
Ahh, the sweet smell of Cosmoline.
SKS good.
@@henryrodgers7386 Totally agree. My Romanian AK is very well built, but ya know... I've outshot AK's on every occasion with that Norinco SKS. Especially once we stretch it out a bit... beyond, ah, forty feet. LOL
"The ak's uglier older brother."
And I took that personally.
im just the sks of my family i guess
Your not the only one... I honestly almost unsubscribed. Talk about insta-pissed...
ALUUUUCAAARDDDD!!!
My favorite thing about the SKS is how it is dual purpose. Lethal bullet out the front, less-lethal shell casing out the side at 2 zillion rpm.
My Grandpa served in the soviet army in the 60's. He was one of the best shooters. So when he left the army and became a bus driver, he would sometimes bring reservist officers to a gunrange to practice shooting. In the Winter the Officers would shiver because of the Cold, so my Grandpa just did the shooting for them.
That's awesome! My grandpa was in the US army in the 60s in Vietnam.
@@captainrutabeggacrossout8482 Hey, since a few Soviet Russian soldiers were sent to Vietnam to help the Commie Vietnamese, maybe your grandparents could have met each other and coexisted happily ever after!
@@punjabiplug2823 so true! Either that or kill each other!
@@punjabiplug2823 no, most likely not
I don't care.
"Either Fudds or broke college kids that can't afford a good AK"
Sad Canadian noises
Sad New York noises too.
*snow mexican battle cries*
I'm an old Fudd now, but I got my SKS when I was a broke college kid who couldn't afford a good AK. I also have a MAK-90......oops, he said a GOOD ak. I'm so old, I used my SKS in a speech in my college speech class. I showed how to field strip and clean an SKS. Try doing that today.......LOL
Or a Californian who got lucky during a antique auction😔😔
@@cameronwells694 every Canadians first gun seems to be a sks
"Excuse me, uh, Bear Fucker. Do you need assistance."
"Ooooh yeah, yeaaah!"
DAMN IT POSSUMCOTS
Back around 1990-92 they were selling SKS rifles new out of the crate for $75 (all day long), I never brought one, mainly due to M1 Garand's were selling for under $200, M1 Carbines for under $150, and 1917 Enfields under $200. One could even pickup .303 British Enfields for under $75.
I still have a page out of the old recycler (LA classified trade paper) that showed all the good stuff in 1987. Sks was $99, AK maybe $149. Top level stuff like HK91 was $599. Colt Ar15 HBAR was $599, galil $600. All ammo was $89/1000. 22LR was $5/500, I never bought any of that really cheap stuff, I wonder why? 🥸
My dad bought two of them. I have one today and the other ended up in my cousin's hands never to be heard from again. Wish I had that other one too.
Good old days.
@@bigbaddms Big 5 would regularly have sales on CCI 22LR. Life was good. Today's prices give me a cramp.
I wanna go back bros 😢. I remember gun shows where people sold crates of five 91/30s for 150 bucks. Each rifle came with a sling, bayo, twin stripper clip pouch and cleaning kit/oiler can. Also spam cans of old Soviet era 54r for .02 cents per round.
A lot of venison was put in freezers with SKSs by many people I know up here in the north woods. That was back when an SKS could be had for $75 pulled straight out of a crate and still packed in cosmoline.
*Holds my Yugo SKS close
"It's ok, it's ok. I know you're not ugly."
Mine too. She's pretty. (about the same amount in upgrades I paid for her but don't say anything)
*Cries in jamming problems*
I'd test my new gas port, but I can't find ammo without paying prices I won't pay.
@@girhen no shit and what I got I'm keeping in a safety deposit box. If you don't mind me asking what port yo get? I did but had to file the hell out of it
@@j-rocd9507 On ebay, from hacker32: stainless steel Yugo SKS Gas Valves.
It's identical to what people described from now-defunct websites, and there is feedback saying it works. It's built a little longer to better seal the gas. Hope it works.
@@girhen maybe its because I'm from a different country but it's our go to "I piss in the gas port and never clean it" rifle. Jamming doesn't ever seem to be an issue just the 5-6 moa that anything but russian ammo provides. (310 bullets vs 308 bullets)
That ominous wind was actually the sound of Ian McCollum approaching with a Fedorov rifle
Lol... I can visualize that perfectly.
I bought an SKS several years ago when they were only $200-300. It's a Norinco that is in really good shape with a TWENTY (yep I typed 20) round internal magazine. I put a B-Square scope mount on it with a UTG Bugbuster scope so that I can still use stripper clips to load it. I replaced the firing pin with a spring loaded one (no more bump fires). I'd sell my dead mother's urn before I'd sell it.
20 rounds is pretty damn good!
I like it!
One of those Norinco 20 round paratrooper Sks's are definitely on my list of must-haves.
I bought 4 SKS's back in the early 90's and gave one each to my 3 boys. I taught them how to shoot and hunt with them. I love these guns. Triggers are real rough off the shelf but that was easily rectified. The one I kept for myself would repeatably shoot under 3", 3 shot groups @75 yards. Not bad for a battle rifle and iron sights. And these are milled receiver guns for what it's worth.
"Who the fuck says you need a can cannon all you need is a bayonet and an SKS!"
Yes this line is beautiful
Tapco stocks and hacksaws: *Exists*
SKS: 'God no'
You forgot the b-squared scope mount & a cheap Chinese scope.
Shit on the tapco stock all you want, but being able to throw an M4 stock on it with a rubber buttpad makes shooting it much more pleasant
@@sjcodan Also detachable magazines.
@@sjcodan I shoot mine hundreds of rounds with not problem or discomfort. Of course, I don't have a vagina.
I bought a SKS a few months back from sportsman's warehouse, caked in cosmoline, loaded it up and bang. Wiped some off but I feel it's like oiling it. Feels great on the hands after, silky smooth. Bang bang BANG
Love my sks. Cheap,fun to shoot, packs a punch. Great bugout gun.
SKS: The unofficial official rifle of the Canadian militia
Hahaha I thought it was funny the SKS wasn’t on yalls ban list, regardless the fact that bubbas have made kits to turn these into every other gun ever, including bullpups🤣🤙🏽
Canadian miltia is weak and useless
They should be revolting by now....but nah they take gun legislation up the ass and ask for more
100% me Red and White bruddah...also to the 'weak and useless' comment all of Alberta's taking a stand and saying we will not comply with the gun grabbers when them come for them
@@fsh4204 I wish Quebec was doing something about it
@@dicksimmons357 see we are doing something everywhere....were not going to do a shootout with the police cause that's stupid and wrong
"or broke college kids who cant afford a real AK" as a broke college kid who bought the sks as his first gun this hit different
Still got her?
@@HappyBeezerStudios yes, I've had ger for about 4 years, Chinese with the bayonet
Me when he said that: „and I took that personally.“
Damn, I felt that too as a broke college kid who has an SKS.
Cam here to say this but in my heart I knew it had already been said lmao
Great rifle, and un-registered here in Canuckistan...that's a very good thing. Can't have AR's anymore, same with AK's. An SKS is a great option, no complaints.
The SKS to me is just one of those guns that feel good in the hand. When you find a gun like that it's best to keep it. 👍
Millions of SKSs breathed out a sigh of relief when Tapco went out of business.
Only for ATI to jump in the mix.
I'm not a big fan of the SKS, but even I hate tapco.
Wait, Tapco went out of business?
Who killed tapco?
Remington discontinued tapco not long before going bankrupt itself.
Good AKs: cost $900
Edit :Sks: *Thats where we DONT come in*
they come in at $800 lol
In Russia you can buy TR3 for $900, it's original AK-12 without auto. But the problem is average wage about $300-600.
Good AK’s cost $900 5 years ago. A Russian SKS goes for around $1,000 now.
I like my SKS, my Dad brought it and German mauser 8mm back when he was in Vietnam. Love the way it shoots.
My Dad got an SKS-M when Y2K was a concern. It has been one of my favorite guns ever since. It was my gateway drug into all things Gun.
Gateway drug!!! Yes!!!
Fun fact: The SKS is actually a scaled down version of an earlier Anti-Tank rifle developed by Simonov known as the PTRS-41 chambered for 14.5x114
Is it overkill to use that round to hunt rabbits?
@@grafspee9875 nah, should be perfect
@@grafspee9875 your rabbit is now a toilet paper roll
@@redmist6630 there is no rabbit anymore
@@ThePolish2107 meat slush
"Most of you are either Fudds or broke collage students who cant afford to own an AK" the SKS is super popular up here in Canada, it's one of the few good self loading rifles that isn't restricted
dang sorry to hear that
I remember in high school my best friend's dad told me I needed to buy an SKS while I could. I remember the gun store down the street had them for $129 including a decent amount of ammo (500 rounds if I remember right). I didn't listen to him and damn do I regret it today when I see the prices they're going for now.
Yeah man, it's crazy that they are the price of a nice entry AR-15
@@dirtmcgirt0420 Gives you the hint that despite the crude looks and crude machining, SKSs work very well.
I've had my SKS for 20+ years. Shot thousands and thousands of rounds through it. Cleaned it maybe 2 times, It always fires and is plenty accurate to 200 yards. With a nice fiberforce stock, my own design scope mount, and removeable clips it is a great gun.
Congratulations on 1M subscribers Brandon!
I was about to say the same thing. Been looking at it the past month wondering when it was going to flip over to 1M
A million subscribers on youtube is like super saiyan in dragon ball. When goku did it first it was really cool but when everyone and their mom started becoming super saiyan it wasn't cool anymore
WOO! I noticed a day or two ago that it was at 999,000! Kickass! I hope he makes a vid about it! Maybe an AK-50 update? Yummy...
@@normanmccollum6082
It just turned today, video on it probably coming Thursday
@USAirsoft Hey you too!!!! You just got to a quarter of a million!!! Keep up the great work from the both of you!!!!!
How dare you to call her ugly?! She’s beautiful in her own ways!
Ngl, I want that bayonet on my home defense rifle.
He's just jealous that his gopnik skank AK doesn't have the class of the SKS.
@@manictiger this bayonet is created by narrow-eyed Chinese farmers.Original sks have beautiful soviet bayonet of 60G steel, which can perfectly make Borodino bread sandwiches with doctor’s pudding GOST 23670-79
The SKS is my first rifle I ever owned. I changed the firing pin to a spring assisted and made the trigger pull half as light. Ive been told by my ar friends that it shoots just as nice as a well madr ar15. I have done my best to keep it original otherwise and is one of my favorite rifles.
I can carry more clips of ammo than magazines tbh
I always thought the sks while a different and unrelated design to either the AK-47 and the Mosin-Nagent rifles, it was the stepping stone between them.
God he just roasted half of us in like, less than 1 minute.
Yeah I feel the burn.
I wish I had been burnt.
It was a really harsh attack
*chuckles in PSA AR-15 bought over a black friday sale* Now I wish I could find an SKS for less than 800
Yep, he got me to
"At the end of the day it really doesn't matter if I like it. Its a piece of history."
This. People need to understand this, about everything in the world
Exactly!
People who destroy soviet monuments, or paint over statues of Churchill have no respect from me...
Yes
@@maxim6088 i can understand the destruction of sovjet monuments in countries that suffered a lot under their rule, but a monument of churchill? seriously? i mean sure the guy wasnt an angel by any measure but he did a lot of good too.
up until the point where we all become history
My very first rifle I bought when I was 20 was an SKS that already was "bubbafied". It was a POS. I later bought a Yugo 59/66 with the blade bayonet and grenade launcher attachment. That one is really cool. I liked it so much that I bought my dad the exact same one.
I love my SKS. With a scope it hits accurate and gophers don’t get far. With its wood grain and red hue it is a very beautiful gun. I would not trade it for anything. Its mine and you can’t have it.
even a deagle
Do the SVT-40 next. Its the SKS's Older brother, from an affair with a Mosin Nagant.
Or AVS-36. The cooler brother
What about a Ruger Mini 14.
@@CrossOfBayonne the ruger mini 14 isnt Russian.....
Lmfao
"Is it ugly, yes"
You better watch out the next time you walk into a dark ally, Brandon.
Let me join you in this Julius Caesar-esque dark alley meetup, I want him to sign my tapco sks mags.
But it is ugly
@@osmacar5331 **writes name down on list**
@@Sid0404 bring it, I'll use superior British bolt action technology? That makes me a machine gun by virtue of british XD
@@osmacar5331 Ok, but don't be so surprised when there is a T-34 at your front door.
My dad and uncle each got dirt cheap SKSs in the 90s, along with a train load of that steel-core ammo they used to have all over the place. They didn't get used very often compared to the lever guns, but when the SKSs did come out it was usually to put a hole through something that no one else could put a hole through. There's a big thicc pipe out by a reservoir they used to camp by, and for the longest time there were only 2 holes in the pipe (one from the SKS round going in, one from it coming out sideways). Now that the standard artillery is no longer the .30-30, there are a lot more holes in that thing, but for a good few years that keyhole steel-core penetration looked very impressive.
Love the SKS i bought for $109 back in the day...great gun for what it is !
My dad bought 2 because before the Clinton import ban they were $65 with a thousand rounds of ammo
He'll they were still $65 up till about 10 yrs ago. Unfortunately I got my Yogu bout 4 yrs ago and had to add $400 to that $65 to get mine. And no ammo.
My grandfather got on for free off the VC
Good investment.
@@Pyro151516 hahahahahah
Same, still have 4 and they're all Bubba'd out too lol
I remember when these rifles were under $200 15 years ago.
i remember loads of them for $78 sitting in a barrel inside my local sporting goods store SMH
I remember $250 2 years ago.
@@birdhunter_inc Really where???? I have been looking and cant find any below 500 dollars thats isnt beat all to hell...
RTI C Grade $179 2014.
Yep.My local sporting goods store had a barrel of em for $99,seems like 25 years ago.
I turned 17 and just got passed down the type 56 SKS that’s been in my family since my grandfather got it after vietnam. First thing I did was clean the shit out of it. We have been neglecting it for awhile and Iv been wanting to give it a deep clean. But even with the neglect the gun never jammed once and worked like a charm.
My love for this gun is beyond explanation. And yes, I am a student who can’t afford a decent ak
WHY IS THIS MAN NOT VERIFIED. THE AMOUNT OF PAIN HE HAS GONE THROUGH DURING CURSED GUN IMAGES IS JUST-
You have to apply for the checkmark. He probably just hasn't done it
He's a gun channel. CZcams probably just hates him.
Why does it matter?
@@eggroll3055 yeah i mean demo ranch isnt verified and he nearly has like 10 million subs
@@EslayerTM lol i was about to say that
“You’re either a fudd or broke student that can’t get a real AK”
*blinks in Canadian gun laws*
Well .... looks like I'm a Fudd then lol cause I happen to like the SKS, it lives right next to my AK
We love them in Canada
*surprise Canadian gun laws*
Canadian gun laws are so fucking non-sensicale lol
@Soldat Kaiyodo actually its spelled F U C K Y O U
Also other than the abrupt back end of the... upper receiver?... the SKS is actually a gorgeous little rifle. The compact dimensions and intermediate cartridge are also good selling points, though it would be better to have it chambered in something with a little more range.
Got my Russian SKS back in the 90s for 125 bucks.. beautiful gun in prestine condition.. shoots amazing
*stabs white claw with bayonet and removes by shooting still impaled white claw*
Goddamn it I love this channel
"Oh.. I know what we have to do."
Being a chinese sks, what are the chances it had already done something like that. But with a baby?
3
@@blacklynx24 84 to a banana peel
@@mattmanbrownbro at least 12
Imagine being useless when you run out of magazines.
This post was made by the SKS Gang
And the moist nugget bois
AK mags are tough as T-34's. Pitching shade towards the AR-15's though XD
Bro am I the only one who’s got a SKS with a external mag?
When you ran out of mags in SKS doesn't metter you still can use clips or load it one by one.
@@heretic_7679 No, but if you just had one magazine you could still reload it with stripper clips fairly effectively, unlike the AK
There is something about watching dudes shooting awesome guns that is relaxing and puts the world back on track ... at least for the rest of the evening
Love my SKS. One of my favorites bought mine because of Battlefield Bad Company as a meme but once I kitted it out and got an updated 30 rd magazine it is now one of my favorites to shoot.
Brandon: "I love Soviet firearms and I didn't feel like my collect was complete until I had an SKS"
Me: "wait its complete? So then where is the PPSH-41?"
or dshk ?
Or RPD. Or PPS-43. Or PPD-40.
Or dp-27
Or Dragunov
Loves Soviet firearms...buys Chinese sks.....your love is cheap Brandon....very cheap.....
In the south we use the sks for pest control pretty much. My teacher in highschool told me one day he’d just got an sks and first thing he did was dispatch a coyote.
Got to love the south, dude looked like Johnny sins you’d never expect him to say he whooped a coyotes whop
I love this platform. I have a mint Chinese 1965 SKS (no bubba) and an unissued Yugo M59/66 that was still packed on cosmoline (replaced the tritium tubes on the night sites and good to go). My EDC is a Radom P-64. Cold War shit rocks. And they're not making any more of it.
Another challenge: Skalashnikov. A AK made out of a SKS parts kit
Chinese already made it. They call it Type 81.
@@RemetaD
I cackled at that. That was fucking hilarious.
I remember in the late seventies early 80's seeing SKS's that were converted like hell into AK look alike's because it they weren't available yet in the legal civilian market they costed A lot !
Type 63 from China
@@haraffael7821 looks like the first assault rifle
Edit: not the StG but actually it looks more like a M1 Carbine
So what you're saying is its not appropriate to take a SKS and Bubba it into a CBRPS Bullpup kit with AK magazine conversion?
Brandon: *Severe Convulsions*
I actually appreciated the modern look and performance you get from CBRPS chassis. Being a southpaw means I eat alotta brass, but could you see the Romanian PSL or it's Zastavian replacement in that Spike chassis. So fugly it's beautiful.
My dad put synthetic furniture on his. Never had I thought I'd have a brain aneurysm until them
@@Pingu4708 same, but the fancy stock means it no longer tries to eat me, so that is nice
You too, eh?
Uhm...
what is there to not like about the SKS? Love those guns. Rugged, ugly, deadly, dependable, plentiful ammo still, accurate, and with a little bit of mods, can attach 20 and 30 rd mags. Have owned several. Never had one malfunction in 1000's of rds.
Its the rifle of the worker comrade
They can, and do malfunction. Just like AK-47s malfunction fairly regularly.
I got one some years back. Plastic folding stock cut for hi cap mags. When I was walking out a “good old boy” who worked there smiled and shook his head with approval. Never jammed. Wish I would have kept it.
As an uglier older brother myself I feel I now have and unbrokable bond with the SKS
First he got a 1911
Now he has an SKS
His transformation into a Fudd is nearly complete.
Not until he puts down the melinals version of beer called whiteclaw. Then it will be completed.
Nah he needs m1 garand or anything in 30-06
next is a bolt action 30-06 and then a lever action 30-30
He looks like a younger hank Jr when he wears a hat and aviators
Now all he needs is a NRA membership.
I went to a gun show, at one of the large LA venues, sometime in the 70s. There were what seemed like acres of Russian, German and Japanese rifles, pistols and schtuff. I dismember the price on the SKS, starting at $25.
Got my SKS when I was a Broke ass college kid 35 or 40 years ago. The only Bubba thing I've ever done to it was required by the great state of caLEFTornia. Back in the day, attached bayonets we considered evil. I've heard it called a poor man's mini-30. I don't know about its SHTF viability. But it's still a lot of fun to shoot.
I don’t know what’s worse, Brandon overpaying for the SKS, or him actually finding ammo for it.
It's not hard to find ammo. It's hard to spend
@@sambloom955 depends on where you look for it too.
@@sambloom955 words to live by
You know he's got a tula stockpile buried in the back yard.
Idk man where I am 7.62 is pretty easy to find if you know where to look.
I may be a broke college kid but at least I can afford stripper clips!
Best reply. Not a broke college kid and unfortunately still can't afford another SKS at todays prices.
@@bradbauman7594 Are they around $700 to $1000 usd at the moment? I was surprised to see how much they had increased in price over the past year or two.
Lololololololol!
@@TacticalTerry I just sold a Yugo on g broker for around 800.00 USD. Bought for around 375 or 400 two years ago.
@@rcstl8815 Dang! That's a nice profit. Good on ya. :)
Wish I had bought one a few years back fhen.
I love my SKS rifles. I've been an SKS owner since you could get one for $100. Great deer and pig rifle here in the swamps of Southeast Georgia where you only get a 50 yard shot..
My grandpa bought a Norinco SKS “sporter” when he was in the service. With an aftermarket “look-under” scope mount, I gotta say it’s my favorite hunting rifle.
The only bad thing I can really say about it is it just will not cycle steel case ammo. She may be cheap, but she still has standards.
Meanwhile my RAK-47 made in NC cycles steel case no questions asked.
I can shoot a lot farther away with the SKS, but my AK shoots trash and makes it perform like treasure.
I’ll never forget the first time I cleaned it. I fully disassembled it, I didn’t just field-strip it. It has it’s own cleaning kit in the rear of the stock, but we couldn’t find its rod… I made due with a couple borrowed rods from a .38 cleaning kit. My AK rod was either too short or too stubborn to get off the rifle, I can’t remember. Lol
There was still this wax in the stock from where they packaged it for shipping.
AK Daddy meets the AK's Daddy
*M1 Garand has entered the chat
More like ak's granddaddy lol m1 garand had more influence into the ak47 than sks
🤣🤣🤣
Actually wouldn’t the SVT or AVT be considered the AK’s Daddy?
@@User-lx2ye czcams.com/video/J4l33puWET0/video.html
The tri-bladed bayonet is to make a stronger stabbing blade. Even back in the Civil War, there were plenty of people who had bayonet wounds to the chest stitched up and survived
Yep
It was mainly made to punch though armor
And there were plenty who didn't survive. Some people die from a single bullet, while there are some who take over 20 rounds before they drop. The world is a crazy place.
Exactly. End the myth of the triangle blade!!
@@societalnormality2268 It's not a myth, it was an unintentional side effect of trying to strengthen the bayonet.
@@CertifiedSunset no, a triangle hole is the same as a round hole to close
it is just substantially lighter than a solid bar while being substantially stiffer that a flat blade and therefore better at penetrating harder targets without being damaged
A Tula original milled parts SKS is a thing of industrial beauty, total practicality, and a historic step that is still perfectly functional today.
I have a norinco sks that I bough in the early 90's for $100. It's is a pretty handy and fun to shoot little ranch rifle. Wish I would have bought a bunch of them back in the day and left them packed in cosmoline to resell now. Could have earned about 600% on my money in 25 years
"Bro, it's basically an AK. It uses the same bullet and has wood"
More like AKs aren't allowed in my country, but we have enough SKS's to equip an Army. Welcome to Canada.
Anyone who has firearms in this country atleast has an SKS or has had one.
Also SKS-D can use AK mags. Pretty nice.
*Laughs in type 63 and yukon
@@nordoceltic7225 i think in urban war it would be way better to have an AK than an sks. And well trained people would use semi auto on the AK and only auto when it’s necessary for suppressive fire.
So that’s where they all went. You maple bastards took them all!!
@@nordoceltic7225 fate loves irony
@@ozielreyes2768 key word well trained.
You cant really well train irregulars mid war ya know
You can get a brand new surplus Norinco SKS here in Canada for $479.99 CAD, a Russian 1954 Tula like I have is about $650 CAD.
I bought a brand new Yugo years ago, still had the packing grease on it for 200$, cleaned up beautifully, accurate out to 100 yds, that's as far as my local ranges goes out to, eats whatever I feed it and I absolutely love it. Brandon keep up the great work, love your videos !!
You talk about soviet design while holding a Chinese SKS while there is a Tula armoury SKS out there with your name on it.
Yes. The Tula one is good.
Design is different than manufactur.
I would think with his knowledge on aks he would know what kind of sks he has guys
@@AndrewPureMI he said it was a chinese sks in the vid
Or a Yugo :)
I hate to say this, but my dad bubba'd an SKS back in the 80's. He, thank God, kept all of the original furniture and will go back on when I get it. #AKGnotificationsquad
All though we respect our parents lol I guess they are human as well and make mistakes
Brandon, Norinco made a SKS that accepted a 30 round mag it went by type D or F depending on whom you asked , the rifle was shorter than a traditional SKS and some said it was a Paratrooper edition , if you can locate one which isn't easy , it would be a very interesting video !
I have one like you describe I enjoy it very much.
I have that exact one you’re talking about, it has a thumb hole stock and a sling, picked it up for 550$ at some random hillbilly gun shop and boy am I glad I did
I found your channel thanks to the algorithm! Great content amigo.
I've owned several SKS. I sold them all but they were all fantastic truck guns
Family member in Vietnam. Said the SKS was his personal favorite small arms. His argument was you can keep lower cover in fire fight. It always made sense to me if some one is shooting at you get as much cover as you can.
Two words
tanker mag
In communist Russia, you are the cover.
He better be from South Vietnam.
@@brahtrumpwonbigly7309 Probably not, they mostly had US weapons.
Which side was he on?
Fun fact: The SKS was outdated as soon as it went into production, as it was adopted the same year as the AK47 and was immediately replaced.
Still an effective rifle
Yes, still heavily used in Yugoslavia civil wars in the 1990s.
@@zz3690 Da, zastava?
@@Gaizaz Zastava M59/66 variant of the SKS
@@zz3690 Yes because it was stored together with the yugo AK and some yugo mausers in civil guard warehouses which were accessible to the civil population and not under oficial military supervision to fight against official yugoslav army sponsored groups aka Serbs.
The first SKS I ever saw was in 1967 at a pawn shop in Oceanside California right next to Camp Pendleton. I was a junior in high school. A Marine had brought it back from Vietnam in his duffle bag in pieces when he figured out that he couldn't put it back together he took it to the pawn shop. The pawn shop owner didn't know what he had and told us it was a Japanese paratrooper rifle. He didn't know how to put it together either. So he sold it to my buddy for $25.00. My buddy and I looked at the pile of parts and then started putting it together. It turned out to be a Chicom SKS complete with spike bayonet in excellent condition. It came with three 10 stripper clips of 7.62x39 ammunition. So my buddy and I took it out to the foothills of San Marcos and each fired 10 rounds. We took it to the next gun show in LA and my buddy sold it for $150.00 and I sold a discharged LAW launcher tube for $75.00. Today I have 3 SKS's in my accumulation a Russian, a Chicom and a Yugo. As you say they aren't the best rifles on the market and none of them would be the first rifle I would grab out of the vault when the balloon slips the string. But they are in my opinion important pieces of firearms history.
The enemy in vietnam used the Russian SKS alone with AK-47's . The squid size force also carried one B-40 lancher tube with rockets. 69th ARMOR recon. 1969.
Bran : places whiteclaw
Bran : Takes aim
Bran : *AU REVOIR*
"hehe EMNERGY"
The SKS's biggest selling feature: well, at least it's not a Mosin.
Mosin are $400 now.
Mosin is god, I will not take your Russian heresy
luls, my first two rifle purchases...
I clap 12x18" plates with irons at 1000 yards with my Mosin. The sks could never.
I like my Yugos and commercial Chinese SKS rifles, but the two early Chinese military examples I have are my favorite. You can tell the fit and finish is (was?) better and they are really smooth. They may have beat up stocks and some finish wear but it gives them character.
I got the peep sight that goes on the dust cover for mine. I love that gun. Then put it in bullpup stock. Probably the most fun gun I own
I don't know why he's so critical of it. These things rock.
Like a rock too, jk. They're ok, I'd rather shoot my mosin or ar15, but she is pretty.
Everything is relative.
@@arch3088 Value (preferences for goods) is subjective, but don't make the error to say that all is relative. Metaphysical relativism leads to moral relativism leads to the collapse of society.
@@mikebastiat Wow, that's one hell of a word salad there.
@@arch3088 Learn to read, dude.
HEY BRANDON! Right now I STILL walk with a PERMANENT LIMP and use Canadian Crutches (Forearm Crutches) to walk with Thanks to one of those "Ugly " Rifles and the "Victor Charles" that was using it. He and I had a Most memorable, BUT SHORT discussion, something about each others parents or lack of! He donated to my collection from the Republic of Vietnam.
I can say I was bubba for all of 6 months. I did the folding stock and "detachable" magazine and scope thing.
Scope broke, stock was flimsy and the magazines never worked. Went from simple and functional to hot jam-o-matic shit.
I went back to the stock setup and the rifle performed as it should. Also my first experience with garand thumb is with the SKS. I learned that single loading these can come with that risk.
I have a UTG handguard on mine with a long eye relief scope. I love it man.
Brandon: Roasts at least 75% of us
The 75% of us: *breathing intensifies*
As much pain as it’s brought me, you have to admire the sheer ingenuity of bubbafication.
Do we though? do we?
@@martinlarsen7354
No, not really.
sorry i have seen too many bubba'd casualties
@@martinlarsen7354 In a train-wreck, controlled demolition, we live in a society kind of way.
When i turned 11 my dad introduced me to this rifle and i loved it. shot it all the time. I have the most time behind this rifle than any other gun. unfortunately the gun got sold. want too get another one day.
It's all up to preference but honestly for what it is, the SKS is quite an effective rifle so you definitely get your bang for you buck when you buy one. Very accurate, grip feels nice against your shoulder, reliable, and not difficult to disassemble. You also get that nice feeling of an older rifle if you're into that. Can easily hit a target at 100 yards with iron sights. If you want something more combat effective, there's plenty of other guns more suited for that but I would pick this rifle over a lot of others anyday.
:20 "I assume most of you are broke college kids". I'll have you know, Brandon, I'm a low income kid who dosent go to college, thank you very much.