Original SKS sniper project.

**Teddybear1848** · 03-23-2017 07:11 PM

I embarked on a massive project a year or so ago. I won a yugo SKS on gunbroker with a unique mount base on its side. I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I though it would be interesting to see if I could complete it. Well since i won the rifle I did about 6 months or so of intelligence gathering and reading. I discovered that the yugo's created and fielded in incredibly small numbers (my sources say 200 or less) Scoped SKS rifles that used a ON-2 mauser scope cammed in 7.62x39. My sources say they were all a little bit different and the hardware made by different arsenals and there were small discrepencies between mounts but the two I have in my possession seem to be identical. The mount base on my rifle appears to be a one of a kind type deal and I will not likely every find a mount for it. These are professionally done and not field made rifles like some of the other yugo's that were imported with various or faked by some importers (looking at you IO inc). After learning what it was i needed I decided to try and find the more common mount to develop a clone and modify it to use the unique base on the rifle pictured. After making contact with some people in the balkans one man said he could help me find one, but it would not be cheap. I promised him a good chunk of money and he said he would see what he could turn up. After a couple of months he finally contacts me and says he found what I was looking for, he would have to travel to get it though. The first ON-2 scope, mount, and hardware cost me 2,678 dollars. I was a bit nervous sending that much to a complete stranger in croatia but no risk no reward and after hearing people have been looking for years upon years for this I went through with the deal. My guy delivered on his end and i got my first unit in a reasonable time frame. After I got it I then decided to use an ON-52 scope on my replica mount and keep the one I bought from croatia whole. Then I realized i needed to find one of the original sks rifles that were imported with the ON-2 Pattern base so I could have an actual original. So i put out adds all over and offered a 100 bounty to whoever could help me out with a successful sale. Someone then put me in touch with Mark Kubes of buymilsurp.com and said he had 3 of them. One complete with the scope and two not. So I reached out to mark and we stuck up a deal where if I could set something up where he could purchase another ON-2 to complete his second rifle he would give me the third to put my ON-2 mount on. So i had my contact in croatia work his magic and he did find another mount for $2800. I called mark and told him the price and he agreed to it and told me to have my guy pick it up. My guy paid for the cost to get it out of his pocket. I had my guy send me pictures of everything in fine detail so I could forward them to mark. I emailed Mark repeatedly with the payment info and pictures of the item and got no response. I tried calling both his shop and personal phone for a week and never got a call back, he pretty much cut contact when it came time to pay. I then find out from his shop help that he said he lost interest because he never heard from my guy, even though it was agreed on that I would be handling the transaction and payment. So then I had to make up the 2800 to pay my guy because mark kubes flaked out. Guess I was to trusting but I ended up having to sell my whole navy arms SKS collection to pay my partner back. So this second scope, mount, and hardware cost me quite a bit but it is in really nice shape so thats nice. I have a deal with another collector who contacted me for two of the original rifles so I will eventually end up with two of the original ON-2 SKS rifles and one that I am doing my best to make a repro mount and scope for. Also came across a yugo refurbed k98 that the yugos drilled and tapped for m76 optics. Will hopefully have that complete next week. Sorry about the wall of text but I just wanted to share my collectors tale.