Relative Quality of SKS Pattern Carbines (Part 1) - Soviet

Are some SKS pattern carbines better than others? If so, which ones, and are they better enough to matter? I hope to answer these questions in the "Relative Quality" series.

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How to Identify Common SKS Pattern Carbine Variants:
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Relative Quality of SKS Pattern Carbines (Part 2) - Romanian and Albanian
   • Relative Quality of SKS Pattern Carbi...  

Relative Quality of SKS Pattern Carbines (Part 3) - Chinese and Yugoslavian
..coming soon...

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0:00 Introduction
0:18 Disclaimer
1:58 Practical Assessment of Relative Quality
3:57 My Premise: Soviet Examples are Overrated
4:50 Soviet Advantages
5:50 Soviet Disadvantages
11:35 Summary
12:43 Outro

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