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Good Trade. Thanks for meeting up with me so quickly.

Every FFL I have every used excepted sks's if there is a reason why they wont it's due to them and not the legality of the rifle sounds more like anti com block gun snob BS too me.

If it's done correctly you can get a rail and then the mount for a scope, the cons are hoping it's done correctly any stock replacement will require bing inlet for the mount properly and the cost of the correct rail.

For the price you are going to pay to cut, recrown and remove/restake the FSB you can buy a new rifle. The accuracy you are going to gain from it is going to be minimal at best. Your money would be better spent on a Chinese T-53 they look like hell but 95% of them have excellent barrels and very smooth actions they make excellent shooters and can be found between $99 and $150.00 for a nice example. It also saves the Hex rifle from being cut and devalued.

It appears the receivers were tapped and drilled for mounts on these which is a good or a bad thing depending on what you want to do with it.

It's an SKS they are all good rifles, hell get a yugo then get a Chinese down the line why stop at one. Those are strait up 59's they are not that easy to find way less common then the 59/66's with the grnade launcher. I would definaly go for it replacement stocks are everywhere for the yugo's if the one it comes in cannot be repaired. Most of the yugo's coming in now are Kalifornia nutred.

Wanna avoid the black and blue shoulders without the need for a pad, shoulder that rifle tight and lean into it pushing forward.

Thanks for the compliments guy's. Here's what I did on the stock and metal. On this one I just used Oxpho-blue from Brownells it's their signature cold blue, it worked okay but at times clod bluing can be frustrating getting an even coat even when heating and doing the correct metal prepping. The mag box was the biggest pain in the ass and it's still not 100% but I can live with it. I usually use a black oxide dip but it requires mixing up a few chemicals together and then they can be reused several times which is good but I am in the process of moving so making and moving chemicals around was something I did not want to do. I also buffed the bolt with a bronze wire wheel to get off the rust and pitting then used a medium sheen polish and a soft wheel to get the sine out. Here's the process I used on the stock, it's an ole school method my wifes uncle showed me a few years back, he is a master craftsman and custom cabinet maker. I would stay from heavy standing. Use wood stripper coat the stock up really good give it 15-20 min and remove the old finish with a plastic scraper if it needs to be hit again with the stripper give it another round. Once all cleaned up give it a light sanding with 220 grit paper then move onto the below for the finishing. 1. Coat of Dark Brown RIT DYE let it dry for an hour, you will know when it's done it will look like a chocolate bar. 2. Lite buffing with 0000 steel wool, then rub in a coat of BLO, Wait 30 min then give it a wipe down with a soft cloth. 3. 1 coat of Medium brown alcohol based leather dye. You can let that sit for 30 minutes to 24 hrs, the longer you wait the darker red it will be. I recommend 1 hour. 4.Wipe it down with a clean soft cloth and then rub a good coat of BLO into it. 5. Let it set for 48hrs without any contact to it then I applied 3 coats of Tom's 1/3rd military gun stock wax with 8 hours in between each coat. Everything but the toms wax can be done in one afternoon. No real sanding used wood stripper, let it sit for 15-30 min then a plastic scrapper to get it all off. Wipe down then a very light sanding with 220 grit paper or block then start with the above process.

AIM had many different ones in stock for less then $1999.99 except for the model that came with the Mepro reflex site. http://www.aimsurplus.com/product.aspx?groupid=703&name=IWI+TAVOR+SAR+.223%2f5.56+Rifles

I have the Big boy in .357 you feel next to nothing with the .357 round, with a .38 round the recoil is compareable to a paint ball gun.

Again a complete myth created by gun snobs(no I am not calling you a snob) and fueled by the internet. the wear on the chamber will be no differnt with either, the thickness and spec of the steel case is comparable to a brass case, the amount of contact the steel is making with the chamber and the friction it will cause is no more then brass. You may remove the interior finish off a bit quicker then you would with brass however once the firearm is broken in it has caused no more "damage" if you want to call it that then Brass would have during the same break in process. If your statement were true chamers in all firearms with tighter tolerences then the AK including the SKS would continue to erode away until rendered useless after a few thousand rounds. It Just doesnt happen like that. I have an SKS that will slpit the neck of the Brass after each shot, it does the same to the steel casing. Side by side the marks on the casings are identical as well as the legnth of the split. This pretty much proves that both casings are made to the same specs and tolerences the only difference being the material. By all rights if that were correct the Baby Eagle that I mentiond earlier would be inoperable after the thousands of rounds of steel I have put through it. That being said as stated earlier in this thread no 2 rifles or any firearm for that matter from the same manufacture built at the same time are going to be completely the same off the line or out of the box. One may have no issues the other might, all you need is less then a thousands of an inch to be different in one out of a few specific locations and your looking at feeding, jamming, or ejection issues. There are gunsmiths out there who can take any brand new firearm and correct at least a half dozen minor manufacturing flaws and make the firearm that much more reliable just by looking at it for 5 minutes.

Got this email today. Ii came from GunsAmerica. Considering what I have read here by certain new folks I thought this relevent. . A Warning to All Gun Bloggers and Forums – Boston Marathon Explosions by Administrator on April 17, 2013 Dear Friends, Please be aware that there are what we call “Bloomberg shills” lurking in the comments of gun blogs and forums at present. It has been going on since before the election, and we first noticed it as far back as our January 8th, 2012 article “2nd Amendment Voters Should Vote Ron Paul.” At first it seemed like fun because they got a lively discussion going, and many of our articles have over 400 comments just because of a few anti-gun comments peppered in by a shill here and there. But as more and more of them have come in, we have begun to realize that it is better to delete them. The anti-gunners have a plan, and that plan is to make gun people look stupid, heartless, and separate from the values of mainstream America. A recent “whistleblower” post about the Boston Marathon explosions is especially troubling. If you are part of a gun blog or forum, please don’t allow this post to spread, and beware that more attempts to make 2nd Amendment defenders look bad are coming. As most of us have come to understand, this crisis has gone far beyond politics. We have seen an unprecedented and sustained attack on not just our guns, but the entire pro-2nd Amendment and avid shooter culture itself. We are being sold to the public as stupid and selfish people who don’t care about the safety of children. I got a forwarded Facebook post from an 86 year old family friend and staunch Libertarian yesterday that said “The NRA Doesn’t Represent Me.” If only he knew what a fool he is being played for, but if you read through the lines, it is pretty clear that Bloomberg’s media campaign is working. The medicated masses are buying the story, because it is being presented in social media environment where people have already let their guards down. For that reason, we have ceased to allow any anti-gun comments on our articles. This was a difficult decision, but we only did so after calling out several of the commenters and directly accusing them of being hired Bloomberg shills. None of them defended themselves, and we believe that this is exactly what they are. The anti-gunners aren’t just buying TV ads. They are hiring what are probably unemployed young people in New York City to fish around in pro-2nd Amendment social media to plant seeds of division, trying to hook the emotions of the vulnerable and anti-depressant medicated. A common theme among the shills is to make us look stupid and ruthless in the furtherment of our cause. We think that they threw some bait into the water yesterday that could make gun people look very bad. It is a “whistleblower” post about the explosions at the Boston Marathon, warning that it is some kind of false flag to ban the private sale of gun powder. I believe this “warning” is meant to be re-posted on gun blogs and boards, and on a quick Google search, I see that it has already hit the FAL Files and a few survival boards. We am not going to include the post in this email because there is no benefit in spreading it, but it begins “I work on a security commission and I’ve just received word to start on a campaign we’ve been working on for the last two months and now it all makes sense.” The “warning” then goes on to say that that explosions were a pre-planned event meant to result in the banning of the private sale of gun powder, and that a young person is to be arrested Friday with NRA magazines in his possession. The creators of this farce are hoping Alex Jones and all of the conspiracy websites pick it up, and some of them already have. We believe that this is a Bloomberg shill to make us look stupid, and ruthless, that we would co-opt a tragedy to further our cause. Obama’s people have indeed already tried to tie the explosions to “Tax Day” in the hopes of making right wingers look like terrorists, but as we have explained before, Alex Jones is a turd in the punchbowl of 2nd Amendment freedom. You don’t have to have any “theory” about the conspiracy to take away our 2nd Amendment rights. American “gun control” was born in the aftermath of slavery, to keep guns out of the hands of freed slaves. Today it continues. The anti-gunners are using the deaths of 20 white kids to keep the guns out of the hands of their racial minority voting “slaves” in the inner cities. It could very well be that consumer black powder, not smokeless powder, was used to make those bombs. Upon seeing the billowing white clouds of smoke from the explosions, anyone who has ever shot black powder should probably have suspected that this was the explosive used. Bomb detecting equipment, and most likely the dogs as well, are not trained to detect black powder. I know this because I freaked out one day when I had to go through a airport sniffer after shooting BP. I hadn’t even washed my hands and realized it only when I was far too deep into the line. But the sniffer didn’t even hiccup. We have all heard the reports that the police were doing bomb dog drills before the explosions, and it could very well be that one dog thought he smelled something early in the day so they brought in more dogs, who unfortunately weren’t trained to sniff BP. Somebody grabbed the obvious possibility that black powder was involved and turned it into this fake “whistleblower” post about the more generic term “gun powder.” Apparently U.S. Rep. Mike McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said “most likely gun powder” was used in the devices. The “Lone Wolf” language of that article does make it sound like they will pin this on a “right wing terrorist,” but what makes this “whistleblower” warning so suspect as a shill is that they do not specify black powder. As many of you know, modern smokeless powder, the kind you find in normal ammunition, does not explode when ignited. It burns, and it is of course also fairly “smokeless.” Billowing clouds of white smoke like the ones we saw in Boston only come from black powder, and it is a lot easier to get than C4, and you don’t have to make it like the concoctions they speak about in the bomb making books. Granted, McCaul did specifically say “gun powder,” but it is just too convenient that this post showed up yesterday, at the same time the talking point was implanted into the discussion. The post is almost definitely fake, and planted by people trying to make us look bad. It is your choice how you treat and respond to anti-gun comments in a pro-2nd Amendment environment here on the internet. Please just be aware that these Bloomberg shills are lurking in your comments and on your boards, and that this is most likely only one of what will be many attempts to make 2nd Amendment defenders appear to have different ideals than mainstream America. We are mainstream America, and after the Heller and McDonald Supreme Court decisions, we were on our way to giving the opportunities of “mainstream” to all Americans. Arm the permanent victims in our inner cities and we will give them back not just 2nd Amendment freedom, but all of the other freedoms they are robbed of by living under the umbrella of a permanent criminal narco-economy. The Wild West didn’t have the violent crime rates of Chicago and Washington DC, because in the Wild West, the good guys could shoot back.

I have a Henry big boy in .357 with the Octogon barrel, the weight for me is not an issue Im a bigger guy and can handle shooting and carring it with no trouble. It's extremely accurate, the action is very smooth once you get the hang of it and it's never had an issue as of yet. I think the fit and finish is a step above the rest in it's price class. The only draw back is that it's tube fed but It was a small trade off for me.

Pure internet BS! I challange anyone who actually thinks this to try it. If an excractor breaks it will do it regardless if you are shooting steel or brass cased ammunition it should be heat treated to the point where it's much harder then any steel casing. If it does break it was either defective or has worn out from shooting period. Steel cases are not much harder or thicker then brass and cause no extra wear on any firearm. I have put at least a combined 5k rounds of steel 9mm through my Baby eagle and Khar cw9 and the internals incluing the extractor and FP are in perfect condition upon inspection, the CW9 is my Carry weapon. 90% of malfuntions with steel cased ammunition are hard primers. Eject the round put it back and pull the trigger and it will go boom for the 2nd time around more then 95% of the time. No 2 firearms are made exactly alike when they come off the assembely line and each will function a bit differently, this is why shooter A. has no issues with his rifle and steel cased ammo while shooter B. with the same rifle does. That being said No factory produced firearm is ever 100% perfect out of the box, take it too a master gun smith and they can tell you 50 ways from Tuesday on how to improve it. If he tell's you it's because you are using that S--T steel cased ammo then he is not a qualified gun smith as far as I am concerned. From my experiance most malfuntions are from user error, damaged or faulty magazines and failure to do the proper maintance on one's firearm.

Gun broker prices for most are way down, my brother picked up and brand new convered Saiga for $725.00 a few weeks back from a dealer on GB, Mac-90's are in the $650.00 to $750.00 range. Wasr's are running in the high 5's to mid $600's last I checked. NJ prices are another thing entirely and we seem to pay more for FTF then others do at least from my experiance. Do a search on gb on recently sold wasr's and when I say recent I mean in the last 7 to 14 day's 2 months ago things were very different and find the average of the sales and there is your price.

Afters. All numbers match except for the bolt. Not to shabby for $150.00 FTF, she should make a good shooter.

Oops double post.

I beleive this was one of the "Very good" condition T-53's buds was selling a month or 2 back. I picked it up off a locally off another member of the site who was not expecting what was sent. The pictures pretty much say the rest. Before:

Had them on a Taurus 24/7 pro pistol in 9mm, they took awhile to get use to, most have the habbit of buring the front sight and shooting low. Once you get it down they line up nicely.

If they are or who ever is importing them is then stay away. Spend the few extra bucks and get one from AIM, they are very real.

shows in stock when you try and add it to the cart, out of stock.

Never heard of Ammoguy.com are you speaking about ammoman.com?

Of course but people seem to be willing to pay, look what the local NJ ranges are charging for ammo,a single box of 9mm costs nearly $40.00 and the ranges by me are busy all week, and the weekends you can forget at least at shoreshot.

Please review the error(s) highlighted below in red. The following item is out of stock and not available for purchase at this time: Item #:IK-218411 | RUAG USA HANDGUN PER 50 | CAL/GAUG:9MM LUGER 115GR FMJ

Well there is one thought to remember here, there are a huge amount of gun ranges across the country that have 0 stock of ammunition right now. .22LR is the most popular caliber in the country and ranges need to depend on it to keep things going. I have been selling some stuff on gun broker and was contacted by a guy who did own a range and wanted to know if I had more of one calliber I was selling because he has a shope and customers/range are customers are demanding.