Added another Military Rifle to my Collection

[chipD]

Congrats, Yugos are considered among the best. I just gave my Norinco to my son. Keep in mind when shopping for ammo there is allot of corrosive surplus on the market for cheap and bore solvent will not clean it. The SKS has a floating firing pin add the use of corrosive ammo without properly cleaning it out and it will slam fire. I used soap and water then solvent and lightly oiled rag. The Norinco has a chromed lined barrel so corrosive ammo is not as big of an issue on the bore, but I still used soap and water, solvent, lube on it as well. The Yugo does not have chrome lining in the barrel, but it is still a higher quality then the Norinco SKS. I stopped using corrosive ammo at all in my SKS as the savings versus clean up didn't work out in my mind. They are a blast to shoot have fun and enjoy it.

[DeaconKC]

Congrats the SKS is a great little rifle.

[Popeye]

Congrats, Yugos are considered among the best. I just gave my Norinco to my son. Keep in mind when shopping for ammo there is allot of corrosive surplus on the market for cheap and bore solvent will not clean it. The SKS has a floating firing pin add the use of corrosive ammo without properly cleaning it out and it will slam fire. I used soap and water then solvent and lightly oiled rag. The Norinco has a chromed lined barrel so corrosive ammo is not as big of an issue on the bore, but I still used soap and water, solvent, lube on it as well. The Yugo does not have chrome lining in the barrel, but it is still a higher quality then the Norinco SKS. I stopped using corrosive ammo at all in my SKS as the savings versus clean up didn't work out in my mind. They are a blast to shoot have fun and enjoy it.

Thanks for the info. I use mil surplus in my Mosin but do not plan on using it in the SKS. Like you say cleaning after the use of corrosive ammo is not to much in the way of fun. Bolt actions like the mosin are not as bad as SKS's when it comes to cleaning.

[jocko]

I bought my Yugop about 10+ years ago, from a friend opf mine who was a b ig arms dealers. He had just gotten in 100 of the yugo's and they were all mint condtition, most unfired even. I think your right on the kick pad to, your particular gun to me is even more unique the the standard yugo sks, which is of the same quality but yours has alot of bells and whistles on it. If Iam not mistaken does ur front sight fip up to look likle a night sight big dot even..

[Popeye]

I bought my Yugop about 10+ years ago, from a friend opf mine who was a b ig arms dealers. He had just gotten in 100 of the yugo's and they were all mint condtition, most unfired even. I think your right on the kick pad to, your particular gun to me is even more unique the the standard yugo sks, which is of the same quality but yours has alot of bells and whistles on it. If Iam not mistaken does ur front sight fip up to look likle a night sight big dot even..

Yes it does have the flip up front sight on it. Not saying this rifle was never issued but either they did one hell of a refurb job on it or it was fired very little. I think the stock might not be the original stock to this rifle as I believe it's serial numbers have been restamped on it as the coloring is slightly different in that area.
Hard to say to much of anything really as the Com ,Bloc countries where known to do a lot of restamping of serial numbers.
I do know some Yugo SKS's where believed to be never issued. What years they would have been I couldn't say. I can't help but feel that the rifle has spent more than a few years in someones collection. As it's very clean inside and out and the blueing is almost 100%. Looks to me that someone had it who knew what they were doing. There is no rust anywhere. After seeing Greg's SKS a while back it has been on my mind that I need to own one but just needed to find one at a price I thought I could live with. Now all I have to do is get some time to shoot the darned thing as I've been pretty busy as of late.

[jlottmc]

Just FYI, for that corrosive ammo, spray the innards with windex (or other suitable ammonia based cleaner) before leaving the range. The ammonia will neutralize the corrosive salts.

[Popeye]

Just FYI, for that corrosive ammo, spray the innards with windex (or other suitable ammonia based cleaner) before leaving the range. The ammonia will neutralize the corrosive salts.

I do that with my Mosin Nagant. With the SKS. Like I mentioned no Corrosive ammo will be used in it. To hard to clean afterwards. Ammo like TulAmmo is pretty cheap but is not corrosive.

[Planedude]

I have had my Yugo for about five years now. My son-in-law and I were at a local gun show and a Dallas area dealer had two cases of them, your pick, with sling, cleaning kit, ammo carry pouches and 20 strippers for $149.
As I was picking one up (and telling the son-in-law to do the same) he asked "what the heck do you need that for"?
He saw several on the used rack at the local Cabelas a few weeks ago and noted he "should have..." They were flying out the door at twice what I paid for mine.
Mine is also an unissued, numbers match gun. I was going to cut and crown the action, get rid of the grenade stuff and baonet and restock it into a sporter for the wife to plink with. Upon inspection though, the old gun was just too nice to wack up like that.
Enjoy!

[Popeye]

I was going to cut and crown the action, get rid of the grenade stuff and baonet and restock it into a sporter for the wife to plink with. Upon inspection though, the old gun was just too nice to wack up like that.
Enjoy!

Agreed I'm not going to take any of it off. This one I'm not even going to refinish the stock. I believe it has more value to it if left along. I've seen the prices of these rifles and the Mosin's Nagants go up 10 to $20 just in the last two months in this area.

[DeaconKC]

FYI, Minwax Red Mahogany stain is a very close match to the shellac color the Soviets used on their gunstocks.