@Alpha957
 
Yay rifle is finer.

NYET  
RIFLE IS FINE

@Justy  
cool. i always do screw up

@1xmushroom1x
 
Simonov. Why can’t people get Russian names right.
 
The reason it was designed wasn’t because the SVT-40 was bad, but because the Soviets started toying with the idea of intermediate rifle rounds under the influence of WWII battlefield experience. The SKS is pretty much a scaled down and simplified SVT. It never got issued in WWII despite what some people claim, but it never got “turned down” either, it was a standard issue rifle for some time. Its service life in the Russian military was short because the AK-47 and later AKM did the job better and was cheaper to produce. The SKS was then partly shipped off to communist countries and partly put in long term storage. Russians have been selling off the latter for quite some time now, which is how these rifles get in the hands of civilian gun owners.
 
And no, most people don’t buy them for the history (not like the SKS was anything revolutionary anyway, let alone “futuristic”) but rather because they’re cheap, simple and rugged rifles. There is no other rifle that gets ruined with cheap tacticool grabage and power tools as often as the SKS. Not even the Nugget.

wait does anyone have the source for this? there’s another Fluttershy SKS here, but I’m not sure if it’s the same one since a part of the furniture isn’t painted yellow on this one.

The irony is palatable.

@1xmushroom1x  
Fair enough, at least it’s not like it’s a Kar98 with RD on it. (coughcough)

@bamakid1272  
well vintage or not, these rifles are relatively cheap by today’s standards. I know a gun broker down here in florida who sells em for $150 a piece for really nice ones. same broker also sells Mosin Nagant’s for $80 because theyw ere overproduced and still are

@1xmushroom1x  
Welp, that answers part one. Now I just have to hope ask if it isn’t vintage. Decaling a gun is one thing, but you just don’t do stuff like this to the real deal,

@bamakid1272  
That is the Siminov SKS. It was a sort of prototype rifle made in rather smaller numbers during WW2 to replace the SVT/AVT-40’s because they were not engineered properly for the harshness of the russian winter. The SKS saw mild experimental use and was turned down for expense reasons. After the war the SKS had seen more production and use by Vietcong guerrillas but still use was rare. Now it is mostly seen in the hands of gun collectors or people who just want something vintage and futuristic for it’s time.

What gun is that?
 
Because if it’s a vintage rifle from one of the World Wars, I just might kill someone…

Oh SKS, you so perty

Musn’t forget the My Little Arsenal tag. It’s imperative for these images.

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