I remember when they were $59.99 NIB w/ all the cosmoline  grease you could ever want, AND you got 1K free with it.  Ah the good ol days...

I actually had a guy give me his free case of ammo because he didn't want to carry it around with him in the gun show


ETA:  My first SKS back in 92 was FREE, but guess what I traded for it.  A Beta C mag that I found on the drop zone!!!  That's right, I figured I would never buy my own AR15 so I had no use for it  

Well I proceeded to bubba fuck it all to hell and sold it some years later.  Then I got a Paratrooper SKS and traded it off later as well.   Around 2003, I traded a guy on this forum 6 USGI mags for another one but sold it for 150 bucks.

Now I own two SKS D models and will never part with them

OP  sounds like an ingrate.

Seller can ask whatever he wants you can counter deal or walk.

2 years ago I had a moron offer me $450 on my near perfect 8mm FN49 when I told him no way in hell he lectured me on the value of my rifle If you want it buy it if not walk don't come HERE BITCHING Because  you can't find someone who will agree to your terms. because you think an aka is a 200 rifle.  

I f you want a collector grade sks then prepare to pay collector grade prices. don't whine about neck beards.

If you were to put on a muscle break instead of a mussle (maybe you meant mussel?) break, it might be worth $800!

My only regret since I started buying guns was when I worked at a hardware store and the guys there all bought a crate of SKS from one of our dealers for $79 a piece.  One for each of them and that was the handpicked price.  

I thought those things are combloc and I just don't care.  Not cool enough for me at the time....

I should have got online right then and bought five crates of them.  

I used to sit in my grandpa's gunshop in the late 90's and clean crate after crate full of SKS...I think we were buying them for $60 a piece and selling for $150.
At some point I owned 5 or 6 various models; sold my last arsenal 26 norinco a few months ago; cashed in on the panic.  Currently, on one of the local facebook gunswap pages there is a guy trying to sell a bubba'd norinco and a beat up yugo for $1200.  Scroll down a little bit and there is a beautiful russian in mint condition for the same asking price of $600.

I remember going to gun shows in the 80's and early 90's and you could buy a Norinco with accessories for $69.00..dealers had tables stacked high with them...wish I had bought a 100 of them..best buy in a high-power rifle there in the last century..

Any SKS over about $100 is too much for me.

But, I'm old.

I traded my SKS for a golf car.  

I thought I paid too much for my Yugo @$145. Those prices are nuts. Like a previous poster said,what you install on it means jack shit-it will always be an SKS.

Is it possible to buy in Canada and bring back to michigan? Legally?


 
 

I see Yugos around here sell for $300-$400 in excellent condition. Any aftermarket accesories (duckbill mags, plastic stocks, cheap optics & mounts) devalue from that price.

Frankly, the Yugo is a GREAT buy at anything <$200 (I paid ~$120). Anything more than that and I'd save for a better gun overall.

Sadly the price is what the market will bear. We know how much they use to sell for so that is what we think the price should be.

They don' t seem to be importing them, so what is here is what is here. You can own them in many states where you can't own an AR or AK. I'm not aware of any comparable semi auto rifles in a center fire cartridge that sell for less then $400 or $500.

How much does a garand go for? I'm not talking about a piece of history as a collector would see it but from the common user's perspective. An M-1 uses oddball ammunition that isn't particularly cheap. It holds fewer rounds than an SKS. Requires clips that eject out of the gun after the last shot and you can't use it without the clip (as far as I know). Not many accessories like folding stocks or higher cap mags for it.

Not really all that surprising that the price for an SKS has gone up when you think of it like that. It's a pretty good rifle that is in dwindling supply. I'll keep my eye out for serviceable SKS rifles at around $250 or below, but I don't expect to find any.

I'm trying to get 550$ for my 69 alby.....700 would be great.