extras with an SKS purchase - The Firearms Forum

board917 · 07-03-2007, 03:59 PM

i just picked up a mint condition yugo SKS for $189 (i think i did pretty good). The gun came with some other stuff like a leather ammo pouch, a lube bottle and leather pouch for it, a leather strap and something else that im not sure wut it is and i was hoping someone elses did. The gun came with a long piece of string, looks like hemp, with lead weights at each end and a hole spliced in the middle... wut is this and wuts it for?

polishshooter · 07-03-2007, 04:22 PM

Probably a "pull through" bore cleaner...you put a patch in the slot, then drop one of the weights down the bore until it drops through then you "Pull it through...."

I've gotten a couple of those with Mosin Nagant "packages' too...

My Yugo SKS came with a cleaning kit in the trapdoor stock, but no cleaning rod, but luckily, the M44 rods and the SKS rods are interchangeable, and I have an extra one of those....

And $189 for a "mint" Yugo is about what they are going for now, wholesale, they are drying up....I paid $99 for my "shooter" retail at Dunhams on sale, when SOG had them for $89....and the "Mint unfired' were like $129...now the "shooters" are like $149-$179 and the mints are pushing 2 bills....

bunnyhunter12 · 07-03-2007, 04:40 PM

Yup, it's a pull-through. more compact and lightweight than a cleaning rod. Made one up for my shotgun that I use with sheets of bulk patch material I picked up, and my Enfield has an original.

One of my favorite pictures ever is in a book I've now lost. The pic is of a soldier of the 22nd Dragoon Gaurds, "pulling-through" during a lull on Sword beach, on D-Day.

07-03-2007, 03:59 PM	#1
board917 V.I.P. Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 76	extras with an SKS purchase i just picked up a mint condition yugo SKS for $189 (i think i did pretty good). The gun came with some other stuff like a leather ammo pouch, a lube bottle and leather pouch for it, a leather strap and something else that im not sure wut it is and i was hoping someone elses did. The gun came with a long piece of string, looks like hemp, with lead weights at each end and a hole spliced in the middle... wut is this and wuts it for? -->

07-03-2007, 04:22 PM	#2
polishshooter Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Indiana Contributor Posts: 7,863	Re: extras with an SKS purchase Probably a "pull through" bore cleaner...you put a patch in the slot, then drop one of the weights down the bore until it drops through then you "Pull it through...." I've gotten a couple of those with Mosin Nagant "packages' too... My Yugo SKS came with a cleaning kit in the trapdoor stock, but no cleaning rod, but luckily, the M44 rods and the SKS rods are interchangeable, and I have an extra one of those.... And $189 for a "mint" Yugo is about what they are going for now, wholesale, they are drying up....I paid $99 for my "shooter" retail at Dunhams on sale, when SOG had them for $89....and the "Mint unfired' were like $129...now the "shooters" are like $149-$179 and the mints are pushing 2 bills.... __________________ The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living. Last edited by polishshooter; 07-03-2007 at 04:26 PM..

07-03-2007, 04:40 PM	#3
bunnyhunter12 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 1,090	Re: extras with an SKS purchase Yup, it's a pull-through. more compact and lightweight than a cleaning rod. Made one up for my shotgun that I use with sheets of bulk patch material I picked up, and my Enfield has an original. One of my favorite pictures ever is in a book I've now lost. The pic is of a soldier of the 22nd Dragoon Gaurds, "pulling-through" during a lull on Sword beach, on D-Day. __________________ Quaerite Prime Regnum Dei~ Official motto of Newfoundland If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws. -- Edward Abbey in Abbey's Road, p.39 (Plume, 1979) -Smitty