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- From: hes@unity.ncsu.edu (Henry E. Schaffer)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: New manufacture SKS vs 1950's millitary issue
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.035612.22528@ncsu.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 14:24:36 GMT
- Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: North Carolina State University
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- The current issue (I got it this week) of the Gun Nutz Shooting
- Enthusiast Catalog (E. Arthur Brown Co., 3404 Pawnee Dr.,
- Alexandria, MN 56308 612 762 8847) has an article (tirade?) on SKS
- Sporting Rifles.
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- They claim that the Mil Spec guns (with "totally milled, one piece
- trigger assemblies", "threaded-on barrels that are pretty thick
- where they attach to the reciever" and Chinese characters or a
- triangular arsenal marking on the left isde of the receiver and
- which probably come in cosmoline, and which were made in the
- 60's and 70's) are excellent and accurate. They say that
- the new production non-mil spec SKS rifles aren't nearly as good.
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- The bayonet type doesn't seem to be a good indicator or type,
- but the blade bayonets seem to be carrying a higher price.
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- This company sells the mil spec SKS with a suggested retail of
- $169.95 and an FFL Dealer Price of $134.95 (including a cleaning
- rod and kit, blade type bayonet, with cosmoline semi-cleaned off.
- They also have a detachable 30 round mag for 24.95/21.95
- a scope system and fixed and folding stocks.
-
- --henry schaffer n c state univ
-