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Jolly

What I used to buy these for, on the wholesale market...

https://www.budsgunshop.com/product_info.php/products_id/411560349/used+sks+type+56+762x39mm

brenda

Jolly shops for and buys guns about as often as I do for wool fabric and yarn.

Ivorythumper

Did you happen to buy several thousand of them?

Copper

Bayonet: Spike Bayonet

In case the ducks attack?

Jolly

@brenda said in $59:

Jolly shops for and buys guns about as often as I do for wool fabric and yarn.

I bet you were never a yarn dealer...

Jolly

@ivorythumper said in $59:

Did you happen to buy several thousand of them?

I wish I had.

I probably moved over a hundred...

Jolly

@copper said in $59:

Bayonet: Spike Bayonet

In case the ducks attack?

Also known as a cruciform bayonet. Russian SKS rifles have attached bayonets, but most of the Chinese Type 56 has the spike. My personal SKS wears a synthetic aftermarket stock , because the Chinese issued wood stocks have a short length of pull and no bayonet.

The SKS holds 10 rounds in a box magazine and I have used 7 of them at one time. Result was a couple of dead deer (one running). The 7.62x39 is a bit less energy than a 30-30 at the muzzle, but because it uses spitzer bullets, the energy is about the same at 100 yards. It has very little recoil and is more accurate than the AK-47, which uses the same cartridge. I find most will shoot around a two inch group.

Some are collectable. The one you really want is a Vietnam trophy return, with the issued synthetic stock. I think one of those with documentation would bring $5000 or so.