Albania is rather mountaineous territory and as such the temperatures, climates and overall weather conditions can vary extremely during certain times of the year. At the coast during winter time it is placid like any other Mediterranean costline but up in the mountains it can be -10C and blizzards and the next day +5C and icy rain. Kinda like here in Helsinki Finland where I live.. In late july the car thermometer showed +31C at 2300 in the night as it was parked 50m from the sea.. Now it is -10C and the Baltic Sea is vaporing 0 Celsius steam as it is freezing up.. Kinda nippy I admit at the shoreline.. :D
Albania is the only country in the Warsaw Pact (save Czechoslovakia, they completely made their own) to not have direct Soviet involvement in the manufacture of their SKS/AK. The Albanians partnered with the Chinese in the manufacture of their firearms.
Let's have a lunch battle shall we? Eric vs Chad. Bring out the Yugo, Chinese, Albanian and Russian. 10 rounds each at 600 yards best out of 40 rounds.
@@rvieira8057 Aye you are right, Yugo one is decent since Zastava had a good manufacturing, had does not have it anymore beware if you buy anything from Zastava. PEACE!
They were 80-100 $ back in the early and mid 90's,I served army in Macedonia,there were entire warehouses full with yugoslav SKS "secured" with single padlock :0) Those were crazy times in the Balkans in Eastern Europe back in the 90's
I had yugoslav-SKS as my personal weapon when I served army in Macedonia back in 1997,I can tell you it's very reliable rifle(it is based on AK-47) and have the best bayonet system in its class!
Cool, I am glad you made this video. I just aquired a SKS m. I also have a Yugo 59/66 with the flipup night sights. I have been kinda studying SKS various models the past few weeks. This, the North Korean, and the East German seam to be the "gotta find" collector guns. Very nice to see some casual shooting with it. Thanks and Merry Christmas to all of you.
@Mr. Morningstar I gave $300 + tax at my gs about 3 weeks ago. You probably made a good trade but I want a "jungle stock" one. Thanks for the comment. Merry Christmas.
Thanks, I was one of those guys asking what that was on the wall. The SKS is my favorite milsurp platform. I have a Tula, Yugo, and very nice type 56. Would love to add this to my collection.
They were 80-100 $ back in the early and mid 90's,I served army in Macedonia,there were entire warehouses full with yugoslav SKS "secured" with single padlock :0) Those were crazy times in the Balkans in Eastern Europe back in the 90's
2 holes in the stock are for cleaning kit and the other for the gun oil , also for better accuracy shot it with open bayonet because it was zeroed with the bayonet open.
Thanks Guys... I owned one for years. Finally let her go to finance my first AR. now I find out its highly collectible. That’s the way the cookie crumbles. Appreciate the information.
Love these videos by Eric. You can watch one of his videos and not worry about missing any info he shares. Go to the toilet, answer the door/phone, boil the kettle, have a snooze, Eric will make sure he repeats what he says at least 4 times at descending levels of grammatic clarity.
My favorite rifle variant, the SKS, probably because a Type 56 was my first centerfire rifle. For the whopping price of $90. It was followed shortly by a Chinese "cowboy" or "paratrooper" carbine, short barreled SKS.
All albanian guns: ASH78,ASH78 tipi 2,ASH78 tipi 3,ASH82,P84 poliçan,albanian M44,albanian Mosin nagat 91/30,albanian SKS,tipi 57,albanian DSHK thx me later
For what it’s worth, I have dropped in my Yugo and Romanian trigger groups into my Albanian SKS. Took a little “persuading” but fit and worked. For those who have an Albanian and/or wondered!
Albania produced SKS and Kalashnikov rifle as well in the US Gramsh factory i believe. ASh-82 (Automatiku Shqiptar- 1982) is one of the types of AK's made back then but i have never found videos on youtube of people shooting the albanian AK. Im prettu sure they stopped making SKS and started making AK in the early 80's, however after the Kosovo war, NATO or UN ordered the destriction of more than 50% of SKS and ASh rifles i think along with other Communist, Soviet, Chinese weapons. Thats why these rifles are probably more expensive now
Back around 2012-2013 SOG had these for pretty decent prices (I wanna say around 350 or so) and I'll always regret not grabbing one. Good luck finding one sub 500 now and expect to pay 700+ on gunbroker.
I've seen that baby on the wall behind u guys on videos for a while now, and im glad u finally made a video on it! And, to answer your question, they were also making Chinese contract AKs at that time. SKSs were given to border patrol agents, guards, and other non-frontline troops.
I have a 1967 produced gun there are some that have no production year just a serial number. They used different woods for the stocks mine has wood that looks similar to the teak wood on the Yugo SKS. The other trapdoor has a oil bottle in it which leaks everywhere so its best to empty it. Most of them were destroyed in the 1990's by the UN so its difficult to know how many guns were imported.
I love my three. I have a 70, 71, and 78. I'd like to have a 69 and undated one. The very first few Russian SKSes in 49 had blued spikes I do believe. You do not see those.
I believe that Erik overloaded the magazine. That could be the reason for the malfunctions on the last round. Chad loaded exactly 10 rounds and did not have a problem. Even with the crap ammo.
Thanks to this video I was able to identify one of these at my local gun show today and I'm like you rare and strange looking sparks my interest so I left with a Albanian sks and couldn't be more happy gonna go clean the cosmoline out of it and try it out toady
I remember when you could get a yugo sks w grenade adapter and rifle marksmanship record for under $100 or the whole crate of them w original crates for under $400 , I wish I would of bought 2 or 3 crates. 1992 indy 1500 gun show.
I’ve read that this particular design is very similar or identical to one of Simonov’s first iterations of the design. I get Albania wanting to be different from the rest, but these changes do require adequate engineering and measurements - thus it’s not ad hoc at all.
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I'd like to see IV8888 try to get either an East German Karabiner-S, Vietnamese Type 1, or North Korean Type 63, probably three of the rarest SKS variants out there.
Is that your Georgia Christmas weather? LOL.. That Sks is a Unicorn! Cool piece of history...Ian at forgotten weapons has a bit more info about those too... Should try a video with a 'yugo'.. but* shut the gas off and tune your hand loads....cheers! Happy Holidays.
