>every single day people pestering about leaving WWI >make one Minute of Mae with SKS >"WTF this isn't WWI?!"

"This one goes to eleven." Love me some Spinal Tap

****Frantically checks to see if C&Rsenal did an SKS Episode without your noticing.****

You’d be hard pressed to find a Canadian farm that doesn’t have at least one SKS sitting in the vault. A couple years ago you could scoop one of these and a 1000 rounds of ammo for under 500 bucks.

A suprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

if you listen carefully you can hear the Fedorov Avtomat flipping the table in the background because the SKS cut in line. Dang youngster.

The SKS has basically become the modern Canadian 30-30 for over 30 years now. There was a time when the Winchester model 94 30-30 was replaced by the Lee Enfield .303 British and the Lee Enfield replaced by the SKS 7.62x39. The SKS was so cheap even 20 years ago that guys bought them by the crate. They’ve become the bang around super tough pickup truck gun of Canada. We even have Canadian companies making plenty of accessories for them. You should check them out Mae.

Hope this means a full length episode will be in the works soon.

Ah yes, the national rifle of Moose land.

"But this one goes to 11" Best line ever!!!

Someone must've pulled a "Guns of the South" and brought SKS's to the Great War.

Really surprising to see an SKS on C&Rsenal, but definitely one of my favorite surplus rifles of all time. I've had my Yugo almost 20 years and it's still fun to take out and fire. Like Mae mentioned, I love that weird combo of the fixed magazine, intermediate cartridge, and longer barrel.

"Most guns I do for this series, it's easy to track down their service history, but I'm going to be honest, I can't find ANY hard proof that this gun served in the war." -Othais on the SKS I imagine.

It is my supreme hope that you guys will be able to one day get far enough in time to cover the Cold War era of firearms.

Sweet I'd love to see a C&R on this.

I bought one of these from Cabela's here in Canada for $349.00 CAD. I wound up getting one with a very poor stock, cosmetically speaking, When I took it apart, I saw the barrel had been recently replaced with one that read _Made in Russia,_ written in English. That meant it was rebuilt specifically for the export market and was absolutely pristine.

Crude, robust, effective. What's not to like? 🙂

"It's supposed to have a 10 round compacity, but mine goes to 11!" My new all time favorite flex!

THANK YOU! My first love! Full episode pretty please!

I'm stoked for this episode!

At this rate I wouldn't be surprised if we saw the Dupont hand trap on a Minute of Mae

Love the smile at the ending. Pure joy. You can tell for sure this is one of Mae's favourite rifles !! :-) Well done.

I just discovered the "Minute of Mae" videos! Normally I only come to this channel when im ready for some really long in depth stuff but this "minute of mae" stuff rocks. Great shows!

The fact your sks goes all the way to 11 is just another reason why I love you, Mae.

Damn , the Great War lasted a very long time , uh ? .

Such a perfect episode!!!

So cool!! Thanks Mae!

If you guys do a full primer on the SKS, it will make me very happy.

Woah! Damn! Cool vid! Nice to see you're expanding now!

Got me all excited!

A love this video!!

A very nice moment on a very nice gun. Thank you again, Mae!

Best Minute of mae so far for sure

Great video

Exquisite! Thank you for a brief look at one of the truly great rifles.

Well done again Mae!

loved the channel

Mae, you're awesome!

Really like these videos, almost like getting a military brief.

Love how she always smiles at the end.

Love these rifles! One of my favorites, only behind the M-1 carbine. Through trial and error found mine did not like Russian ammo, but LOVED Winchester white box rounds. There were several of us who owned them and the running gag was the ejected casings we're as dangerous as the fired round.

A great minute.

Mae's goes to 11......cool. I've watched a lot of your videos for vintage full autos but the SKS is my favorite in my cabinet. This video got me in the feels

Why does i loves this so much? properly entertaining is it ?

thank you!! god this is a good vid!

AIlways love the smile at the end.

Thanks :)

Thanks for posting. You get to shoot so many interesting guns. Much envy. Please keep posting.

Mae is slowly making her way into the 20th century and I can't wait to see more!

One of my personal favorites too!

That smile at the end always gets me

Honestly i'd love one of your full length episodes on the SKS or any newer WWII weapon for that matter. I've binged virtually all of the WWI Primers and go back and revisit my favorites every couple of days. But only having a very few of the types of firearms used in WWI myself I have a far greater collection of WWII weapons. And while the WWII weapons are covered to great volume here in KZfaq nobody covers the history and development of individual firearms quite as well as you guys do. Especially including all countries and variants involved.

You’re the best Mae.

I love my SKS and she's almost 60 years old!

Gotta love the big grin at the end!😎

I was saving these to binge, but you had to mess it up, LOL! Just had to put an SKS up!

Your smile after a magazine outa an sks was priceless 😁👍 good vid

Somehow, I never realized these rifles were so large--definitely looks the part of a battle rifle. Looks like a dream to shoot, too

Definitely one of my favorites

Very cool!

I just got a Yugo 59/66, so this video is pretty well timed.

Not meaning to seem overly familiar or anything of the sort, but your smile really makes my day.

I was caught off guard by this video but Sks has a great place in my heart. Awesome video

Thanks

The sleekest! 🙂

That smile at the end says it all

The "Minute of" format is brilliant and I personally would love to follow YOUR channel doing this with virtually any and every gun, service, non-service and especially reviewing all the modern and commercially available guns. although there are lots of channels that review new guns they're in love with the sound of their own voice, run on forever and lack a the consistent, concise and informative format you've developed. Thank you for doing this. And if people have a problem with C&R arsenal branching past WW1 .. like I said.. please just start a new brand for 'minute of Mae' and go with literally anything and everything that strikes your fancy to shoot. (also , you're absolutely right about the SKS.. never thought of it that way before but as the last stripper clip fed service rifle there is a LOT of lineage that makes this 'last of the old breed, first of the new')

I like the subtle reference to Spinal Tap!

One of these things is not like the others, lol. Glad this series is being continued!

That was a quick one

I’m so confused seeing an SKS on this channel, but having a Yugoslav example of the type myself, I’m all for it! I hope there’s a Primer episode for the SKS eventually!

Wow....another pleasant surprise. Kinda miss the target reference at the end as in the Primer episodes.

Wow! Is this a prelude of things to come?

Never realized how much the frontend looks like that of an AK. Learning with every vid!

I’d love to see C&Rsenal videos on WWII eventually

Does this mean you’re starting to do stuff from the Second World War??

Kevin's reaction in the Gyro Pigeon thumbnail accurately describes my excitement here!!!

Could this be a sign of things to come? Or just having some fun? Either way so cool to see Mae shooting something even slightly more modern

SKS's are all over east Texas, decent deer gun in the piney woods and back in the 1990's they were selling for $50-$75, a 900 round crate of ammo cost $50. What a deal.

I'm personally pretty hyped to see you guys move to some different eras of firearms. Id love to see some WWII stuff or maybe pre WWI

I remember seeing one of these when I was a kid, it was for sale at a privately owned “convenient store” I always loved the way it looked.

Would LOVE to see an episode on this rifle.

Oh wow, this is a treat! WW1 is cool but it’s nice to see something new, especially early Cold War/late WW2 stuff like the SKS.

"Long, albeit secondary, service life..." You ain't kidding about that. The Yugos had them in inventory right up to the end as a primary arm of their militia system (as a precaution against a possible Eastern Bloc invasion) and they were used by both sides during the Balkan conflicts. The SKS is a damn near perfect insurgent's rifle, you don't even have to worry about resupplying mags .

I acquired one of these and would love more informative on it but I can’t find much. It’s my favorite “precision” long range rifle. The non-optional bayonet means business! It has a number burn-stamped into the stock, like it was someone’s issue number.

Hands down my favorite rifle.

I for one am excited for y'all to move into more "modern" stuff. Designs become more interesting and lots of variations of stuff especially when we start talking about machine guns.

Mine is a Norinco with a 20rd fixed. Everything she says is on point . You don't even need a bullet to field strip. Cleaning rod will work to remove the trigger group

*very nice*

Beautiful and effective Regards

One of my favorites as well Mae. The one I now own is a new in the box Norinco, purchased when you could still buy one for around $100.00. I like it better than the AK.

Well that’s different. Nice!

That is a surprise.. I hope you do more of these Weapons.

In a fascinating turn of events, C&Rsenal decided to cover BF1.

Beautiful. Brilliant. Baffling.

Nice!

When even second best is still better than anything else!👍

Brilliant video! Fantastic Rifle. Especially here in Canada!

That smile says it all!!!

I always like her smile at the end.