r/canadaguns • u/macmuaythai • Mar 29 '26

Milsurps / Prohib SKS price

Just got my first gun and it was a Chinese SKS paid 850. Did I get ripped off?

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u/prosper_0 Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 29 '26

Yup. The SKS is a terrible gun by any measurable metric, and an awful choice as a first gun. It's a symbol gun - nearly useless for any practical purpose, but at least you 'showed them.' Somehow.

At least when it was cheap, nobody claimed it was anything more than a cheap trash gun. Now, it's somehow a magical piece of epic proportions