Through another individual, I sold an SKS (Russian with good wood) for $600.
I picked up the firearm for $200 a mere 2 years earlier.
Oh well, he found a sucker. :o)
(You need to increase your bargaining skills, bro... $1000 for a good-quality AK???)
I picked up a nice Bulgarian AK (Arsenal) with a forged receiver, back in the late 20th century for a little less than $300.
Shoots really nice & accurate; glad I got when I did.
Gotta 99% Russian SKS for sale to the right buyer/sucker.
Squirreled away as many as I could hi-cap mags/drums for rifles(M!A, HK91, AK, CAR-15,Mini14,10/22), pistols(P99,G22,G23) before TSHTF...