RE: What kind of SKS?
The Russian ones have the best fit and finish. As far as wear, most you will find, will be new. I have owned a couple of sks rifles, actually three,I had a paratrooper carbine as well. All were fun to shoot and reasonable accurate.I got tired of them and sold them, just not my cup of tea. When I used to live in the country, the paratrooper saw a lot of action on coons, and opossums, stray dogs and cats etc. A bunch of the guys I work with got into buying them back when you could pick them up for under a hundred bucks at gun shows, we used to split cases of ammo as well. I work about five minutes froma public range, so we spent a lot of lunch hours, and time after work out there blowing away ammo : )