Ishevsk SKS/TT-33

[Lenin]

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[DOGolden]

Very nice. Thank you for posting as well.

I have always wanted to shoot one of those Russkie autopistola's but never have. I do not recall ever seeing anyone firing one at the range either. How do they shoot?

[Spuds]

Even a rearsenaled Izhevsk SKS is more desirable than a Tula IMO, nice gun! And the TT-33, can't make it out in the pic, does it have that *(#&% safety the importers added on imported pistols? If not, all the better! Looks nice, you've got a couple of my favorites there.

[Spuds]

Thank you Spuds! :) I'm very pleased with the Izzy SKS, it has taken a while for me to locate one. The TT-33 does not have the safety. It is in it's original form, and best of all, I found it at a local pawn shop for $175.00.

TRUELY a steal!

Every TT33 I have seems to have one fault or another. One I have had the cyrillic characters in the serial number obliterated with a drill bit or something. Still, only $125. Another had the dreaded safety and import marked. Finally I got one for $160 with the only "non-conventional" feature being the date or serial number, I can't recall which, wasn't on the top of the slide like it was supposed to be.

[Timbo]

How does an izzy SKS compare to a yugo one?

[Spuds]

An Izhevsk SKS is more or less like any Russian SKS, whether born in Tula or Izhevsk. Nice wood, chrome lined bore, classic, original lines, just like Simonov intended. Yugoslavia started with something similar, but adapted it to launch grenades, a big part of their battle theory, and the result is a nice gun but awkward looking compared to the original SKS-45. The Yugo bore is not chrome lined, and more often shows wear and/or pitting, a tell-tale sign of corrosive ammunition usage.