I've owned more SKS rifles than I care to recall! I THINK I got to shoot two of them! One I still own, a paratrooper version that I've never seen another version of, it's shorter and the lanyard comes through the side, not the loop on the bottom of the stock. I got hella good at cleaning them. Easy-off oven cleaner gets the cosmoline off easily. We'd buy six to eight a show, have them all sold before we got home! Buy them for $75 and sell them for $125-$175 each, all day long, never did get that?
I wish like hell I could find another case or two of the old steel core ammo for $60 a case! I really messed up not getting more of that stockpiled!