I have never tried to use the 30 rounders, but i remember it sounding like it was easy.
But $200 dollars isn't bad any more for a very good condition SKS.
What country is it from?
The Russian and Chinese/polytech are generally considered the best of the bunch. The Romanian and Albanian are very good also. Plus you don't see as many of those.
The Yugos are good shooters and of the latest batch of SKS's released. The rearsenaled/like new ones are $200+ nowadays.
If it uses the "duckbill" mags, the original fixed mag will snap in place. If it is using regular AK mags, sell it for a $150 profit and buy a regular yugo
And he's REALLY interested in getting rid of it because he never shoots it. He told me cheap...$150-175-ish. That'd almost certainly include whatever ammo he has with it...
But, thing is, the $200 I'm getting back from my apartment security deposit would do a lot better for wife and I if we put it towards a CC bill that she has. *sigh*
So now it's a want of mine up against a need of ours.