r/canadaguns • u/EmperorSlim • Mar 19 '26
Buy recommendations SKS Current Prices Worth it?
Just got my pal and ive always intended to get an sks, but after 9 months of waiting the prices have gone up quite a bit since originally intending to buy one
in your opinion is the current price range of 700-1000ish$ worth it for an sks? i always see one of the main selling points as being cheap, but if a more modern rifles only a few hundred more at this price point is it really worth buying an sks still?
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u/Frreed Mar 19 '26
I think so. Yes, the best time to buy them was years ago, but we aren't years ago, we are now.
The whole "they used to be $150 +15 years ago!!" Argument isn't valid. In the late 70s and 80s you could get a classic 60s muscle car for dirt cheap because they were plentiful and not un common. Now they cost 20x the price they did new.
There will be no more SKSs made, the surplus will only continue to dwindle and the price will continue to go up.