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I have one Russian and one Chinese SKS. I like the rifle. It's easy to operate and easy to shoot. The recoil is bit more difficult to manage than with the M16/M4, but that's to be expected. The stock is too short for me, but that's easily enough fixed. I disassembled my first SKS (the Chinese one) without any aid because the instruction manual was in Chinese. No problem. If one understands the parts of a bolt/bolt group, then the SKS is a snap. I got both of mine for cheap in the 90's.

As a matter of interest, as many as 10 million came in before imports were halted. There were so many in Georgia when I bought my first one in 1994 that I responded to an ad in Macon which listed SKS as 1 for $99 and $90 each is you bought more than 5.

As an aside, when I was thinking of having Huachuca open up an assembly line for its own rifles, I was going to have the post manufacture its own SKS modified for 5.56. I'm on the fence about this one, though. While I remain convinced that Milgov will want to open an assembly line for the AR-18 or something very like it, Milgov in Colorado has more than six times the population base of SAMAD and vastly greater industrial resources. SAMAD may go the route of refurbishing existing weapons.