« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Hello from Mid Missouri  (Read 3912 times)

0 Members and 2 Guests are viewing this topic.

Offline 2301hb

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Newber
  • *
  • Posts: 4
Hello from Mid Missouri
« on: December 17, 2017, 10:05:34 PM »
Just wanted to introduce myself and thank you for this great resource.  This is a rifle my Dad gave me several years ago.  It's an 8 million Chinese SKS with all matching numbers.  I just pulled it out of the closet this weekend and cleaned all the crap out of it.  It's time to get it out to the range!  My Dad paid $65.00 for it.  Wish I could get some more for that price!

Joe

Logged

Offline Loose}{Cannon

  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (+16)
  • Sniper
  • *
  • Posts: I am a geek!!
  • Constitutional Extremist
Re: Hello from Mid Missouri
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2017, 10:07:23 PM »
Welcome!

Does the stock number match?  Get a blade bayo for it, she looks naked! 

I still need a good 8m.    drool2
Logged
      
1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms... It doesn't matter how many Lenins you get out on the street begging for them to be taken.

Offline 2301hb

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Newber
  • *
  • Posts: 4
Re: Hello from Mid Missouri
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2017, 10:17:06 PM »
Yes, the stock number matches.  I need a bayonet.  I haven't looked real hard but the blade type seem to be harder to find than the spike.  Do you have a good place for me to find one?

Joe
Logged

Offline Loose}{Cannon

  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (+16)
  • Sniper
  • *
  • Posts: I am a geek!!
  • Constitutional Extremist
Re: Hello from Mid Missouri
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2017, 10:19:03 PM »
Just check ebay, and make sure its not a Yugo 59/66 bayo because those are longer.
Logged
      
1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms... It doesn't matter how many Lenins you get out on the street begging for them to be taken.

Offline Phosphorus32

  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (+13)
  • Sniper
  • *
  • Posts: 6801
  • Send lawyers guns and money...uh, skip the lawyers
Re: Hello from Mid Missouri
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2017, 10:29:59 PM »
Welcome from WA!

Nice looking 8 mil! The blade bayonets aren't nearly as common, and hence cost more, but they do show up regularly on eBay.
Logged

Online running-man

  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (+5)
  • Sniper
  • *
  • Posts: 6865
  • The only way to avoid Mosin #2 is avoid Mosin #1!
Re: Hello from Mid Missouri
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2017, 12:25:51 AM »
Welcome to the boards!  Glad to have you aboard. 

Nice lookin' carbine you got there!  thumb1
Logged
      

Offline Direct Connection

  • SKS-FILES CONTRIBUTOR
  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Marksman
  • *
  • Posts: 988
  • California is where reality goes to die.
Re: Hello from Mid Missouri
« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2017, 12:29:07 AM »
Welcome from far Northern California : ) The wood on that is beautiful ! It almost looks like a Yugo M59 !! Good Going !! Nice piece of history you have : )
Logged

Offline Direct Connection

  • SKS-FILES CONTRIBUTOR
  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Marksman
  • *
  • Posts: 988
  • California is where reality goes to die.
Re: Hello from Mid Missouri
« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2017, 12:31:18 AM »
Quote from: Direct Connection on December 18, 2017, 12:29:07 AM
Welcome from far Northern California : ) The wood on that is beautiful ! It almost looks like a Yugo M59 !! Good Going !! Nice piece of history you have : )

P.S.  Once you put a bayonet on her that cleaning rod wont fall or slide out anymore ... chuckles1 chuckles1
Logged

Offline 2301hb

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Newber
  • *
  • Posts: 4
Re: Hello from Mid Missouri
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2017, 02:53:41 PM »
Quote from: Direct Connection on December 18, 2017, 12:31:18 AM
P.S.  Once you put a bayonet on her that cleaning rod wont fall or slide out anymore ... chuckles1 chuckles1

So THAT'S how it works!
Logged

Offline Direct Connection

  • SKS-FILES CONTRIBUTOR
  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Marksman
  • *
  • Posts: 988
  • California is where reality goes to die.
Re: Hello from Mid Missouri
« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2017, 04:53:15 PM »
Quote from: 2301hb on December 18, 2017, 02:53:41 PM
Quote from: Direct Connection on December 18, 2017, 12:31:18 AM
P.S.  Once you put a bayonet on her that cleaning rod wont fall or slide out anymore ... chuckles1 chuckles1

So THAT'S how it works!

Yes Sir ! She'll be all buttoned up nice and tight once you put that bayo on. : ) Not that hard to find a ChiCom Bayo either. That gun is nice enough that I would look for the original.  thumb1 
Logged

Offline carls sks

  • Location: Culpeper, Virginia
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sharp-Shooter
  • *
  • Posts: 1420
Re: Hello from Mid Missouri
« Reply #10 on: December 18, 2017, 06:40:22 PM »
hi Joe and welcome. good to have you here.  thumb1
Logged
ARMY NAM VET, SO PROUD!

Offline Stoned_Oli

  • SKS-FILES CONTRIBUTOR
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Marksman
  • *
  • Posts: 337
Re: Hello from Mid Missouri
« Reply #11 on: December 18, 2017, 11:44:09 PM »
Goin' down to Scrivner goin' to have ourselves a time...
Logged

Offline 2301hb

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Newber
  • *
  • Posts: 4
Re: Hello from Mid Missouri
« Reply #12 on: December 19, 2017, 12:45:24 PM »
Quote from: Stoned_Oli on December 18, 2017, 11:44:09 PM
Goin' down to Scrivner goin' to have ourselves a time...

Never been there.  I usually go to Rocky Forks, north of Columbia.  I'm thinking of joining a gun club.  Too many morons at the public ranges.

Joe
Logged

Offline Justin Hell

  • Bubba/Purist Flip Flopper
  • BATTLEFIELD COMMISSION
  • Trade Count: (+7)
  • Sniper
  • *
  • Posts: 2588
  • First Restore... Then Bubba.
Re: Hello from Mid Missouri
« Reply #13 on: December 21, 2017, 02:12:03 AM »
Very sexy 8m there Joe...love the stock.

Be aware when searching for a blade bayonet, if anyone selling states that it is an early type, straight eared collar, that won't work for you. Those would be Russian anyway...but are commonly listed without nationality. Yours uses an angled ear collar, which is far more common...but the Canadians are parting out Russians like mad, so the early ones are turning up more than usual.  If you find a pretty early one for a good price...get it...any spike bayonet handle will work, but will cost you a little more time and money...usually less than ten bucks.

Also, if searching eBay...aside from the 'hunting' section it usually will divert you to when searching for SKS anything...check both the Antiques and the Collectibles sections. They get less traffic and often you can find some deals there...along with some wingnuts with delusions of grandeur...but I have had some pretty good bayo luck in those sections. :)
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »