r/canadaguns • u/Disastrous-Panic-87 • Apr 20 '26

Milsurps / Prohib SKS Imports?

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Anyone know if there will be more sks / french tickler imports anytime soon?

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u/567432Gains Apr 20 '26

Yeah but it’s gonna be an arm and a leg for what they are. I love my SKS’s too, but Russians are about $900 rn, type 56 Chinese are about $750-$850, and French ticklers are about $900-$1000 pre tax.

Low key been thinking about trying to figure out where in the world (literally out of country) I could find crates of them and import myself as it’s probably more economical depending on the importing hoops and custom fees.

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u/hunterstevebearman Apr 20 '26

What is a SKS French Tickler??

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u/567432Gains Apr 20 '26

So you have the Russians, they are standard and from my understanding they are are all pretty much the exact same with some very rare exceptions.

Next you got the standard Chinese type 56’s. They come in wood or if they are in bad shape they will take the wood stock off and throw it in one of those generic ATI plastic stocks. The type 56’s are the older models, pre 1970-something I believe.

Next, you got the French tickler. They are the more recently produced (late 1970’s-1989/1990) and are usually in the best shape and often were never even issued to troops so they were never even fired or if they were fired, it was very little.

You also got the SKS-D and SKS-MC, which are also Chinese and they take your standard AK magazine instead of the internal box magazine. They were kind of an in-between step for China where they had not developed the Type-81 yet (the Chinese take of the AK-47) and so they threw on the ability to take detachable box magazines. Until they developed the Type-81 of course.

There are more variations from different countries such as the Yugo SKS from what used to be Yugoslavia. Plus many others from different cold-war communist countries. Notable ones would be the East Berlin SKS (exceptionally rare, like they go for 20-CAD30,000 from my understanding) or the Vietnamese SKS or the EXTREMELY RARE North Korean SKS. Romanian SKS is also a thing (although iv heard that the metal quality is garbage with them so they are rare and shit).

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u/567432Gains Apr 20 '26

So what would you classify Chinese made SKS’s in the years 1981-1989/1990?

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