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/SirKickBan Mar 19 '26

Your other options for Semi-auto rifles are either:

-Turkish Surprise
-Crusader Arms
-Three times the price

The price went up not because supply went down, but because they became one of the few options left.

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u/Flashy_Inspector115 Mar 19 '26

Valmet more like 5x the price

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u/mischling2543 Mar 20 '26

A Garand is around 3k, so 3x the current price of a Russian SKS in good condition

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u/No_Win_9797 Mar 22 '26

I say always go with one picked in cosmoline or a new Chinese As awesome as the Russian Tulas are, the barrels are usually shot to shit I got one that has never been shot, and I can get a 1-2” group at 100m with yugo surplus. My friends Tula can maybe do 4-5” groups