Bluing coming off?
- Thread starter Mayday_
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Did guns only get coating when they were refurbished?
All serial numbers match on the gun (bottom of the magazine, side of the receiver, bolt carrier, back of receiver dust cover, stock- stamped with Tula star and year, trigger group, on the bolt, electro penciled on the gas tube and rear site leaf and the inspection marks around the lug)
And the bayonet hasn't been changed. There are also no refurb marks stamped on the dust cover or stock.
The [/] mark.
Could this be a lightly refurbished gun that only got coating and didn't get the refurb stamps or is it a non refurb?
Thanks
All serial numbers match on the gun (bottom of the magazine, side of the receiver, bolt carrier, back of receiver dust cover, stock- stamped with Tula star and year, trigger group, on the bolt, electro penciled on the gas tube and rear site leaf and the inspection marks around the lug)
And the bayonet hasn't been changed. There are also no refurb marks stamped on the dust cover or stock.
The [/] mark.
Could this be a lightly refurbished gun that only got coating and didn't get the refurb stamps or is it a non refurb?
Thanks
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From the examples I've purchased it can vary and is usually done crudely. To answer your question yes I've seen some with a full coat and some with a quick spray over just the weld.
Mayday, look at your picture. You can see the brush strokes in the finish.
When these rifles are modified, It would be to expensive to re blue the magazines. The people contracting the work do it quick and dirty for a couple of reasons. First, it keeps the mags original to the rifle because they don't get mixed up in a large blueing tank. Second it is cheap and quick to apply a light coat of black paint to the metal to make it look nice.
Like it or not that is the nature of the beast and part of it as well as most other SKS history. If you want to change that, strip off the paint and get the part blued or blue it yourself.
When these rifles are modified, It would be to expensive to re blue the magazines. The people contracting the work do it quick and dirty for a couple of reasons. First, it keeps the mags original to the rifle because they don't get mixed up in a large blueing tank. Second it is cheap and quick to apply a light coat of black paint to the metal to make it look nice.
Like it or not that is the nature of the beast and part of it as well as most other SKS history. If you want to change that, strip off the paint and get the part blued or blue it yourself.
Correct, in other words it could be a fine example of a non-refurbished piece of history that was butchered to meet Canadian firearms law. Some collectors won't touch rifles that have been done with this method but I'm not that picky myself. When I find a nice example with all cartouches on the stock and with no import or re-furbish markings then I take it home considering it a good find.
PinkyPlinker
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Me too. Every mag is a butchered mag. I'll take a beautiful gun with an ugly mag over an ugly gun with a beautiful mag - every time. The welded plug mags also don't have the pins fall off or have feed issues.
Totally agree.
Mightymoose410
Regular
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Agreed haven't seen very many with a nice mag, and the ones that do usually have a small price increase because it does have a nice mag. If you really don't like it then strip the paint and reblue it to your satisfaction.
