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I have a question as to opinions on Russian SKS's. I owned a 1953 Tula up until 2 weeks ago, complete with all the goodies the originals come with. It shot OK as far as accuracy but nothing spectacular and no different than all the Romy's, Chikoms and Yugo's I have. (I'm comparing the Yugo 59, without G/L and special sights and gas valve that enable the use of the G/L............basically a Yugo version of the Russian).
It had attributes that are singular to the Russian variant and it was well made. My beef is I just don't see where owners of that model are so insistent upon saying the Russian is so great, when others (at least the 3 types I own) perform just as good, and in the case of the trigger, my Romies make the Russian I had seem like a 2 X 4.
Maybe there's something more to the Russians than I saw in the one I owned, but honestly, all the hubbub about them just sounds like snobbery to me simply because the Russians were the first ones made.
Just askin'.
It had attributes that are singular to the Russian variant and it was well made. My beef is I just don't see where owners of that model are so insistent upon saying the Russian is so great, when others (at least the 3 types I own) perform just as good, and in the case of the trigger, my Romies make the Russian I had seem like a 2 X 4.
Maybe there's something more to the Russians than I saw in the one I owned, but honestly, all the hubbub about them just sounds like snobbery to me simply because the Russians were the first ones made.
Just askin'.