SKS with blued bayonet?

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Tried to get a few picks of the left side and can see the hash marks and # 2,, took a while to figure out the imgur site hope it works, tell me what you think, the receiver is early model, gas port is correct, just remembered I forgot to take pic of the date on the cover, it is late 1950 and the stock has been sanded a bit but you can see the cartouches on both sides and it is 1950 also.
 
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jstin said:
I would like to say that unless there is photos of carbine it is questionable. And in my case there is still a problem because there is no other carbines in question like mine. 1950 with 90 degree gas port, eyelet latch pin, stock ferrule and spike bayonet and with numerous pictures to verify.
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Sounds like a 49 refurb with a scrubbed at refurb 1950 cover. Not unusual.... you should see one with a 1954 cover. lol

If its been reworked..... expect any year cover to have been used and force matched.
 
The only problem I have with the scrubbed serial # is that you would see the difference in the depth of the back end, it wouldn't be flat and line up with the receiver as the #'S are fairly deep on the back of the. Cover!
 
No sir. We have seen many with NOS covers numbered to match at refurb or filled, milled, and renumbered.

This isn't a matter of removing material until the number is gone causing the OAL to be short.

I have a 51 with early features and a matching 53 cover where you can hold your mouth just right in the right lighting and see the previous filled number. This is why the CGN russian serial survey is fubared... Just sayin.
 
So, in reality, nobody really knows what sks is what year etc. Could be completely pooched, good to know really, for me it devalues every sks out there as all or most could be a miss match just prettied up to look right! Still seems like a lot of work for a $250 rifle! A lot easier/cheaper to keep the matching set together in the first place! I do have some nice "non refurb" lightly issued sks that look cool and all the parts seem to match except the 53 izzy's mag, North Sylva hired people who couldn't match mags with guns when the pinned them! The ones I got from Westrifle and Tradex did match.
 
Lol. No sir.

This is only Russian guns we are talking about for one thing. Secondly you can have an original gun. Thirdly you can narrow by components.
 
I've seen several sellers here claim they were selling a '49 when the only thing 49 on the gun was a restamped receiver cover. At least 4. Even when this is pointed out they still merrily advertise it as a '49 and seek out a sucker.

Hey LC - I'm looking at a possible 55-56 transition gun. Have you ever seen any that fall outside the KP SN range? This one is HP but everything else is right on it. I'm trying to get the seller to send a pic of the rear of the receiver cover. Suspecting it is renumbered.
 
jaroslav said:
HA HA. The number ''7'' on the receiver cover has a different font then the rest of the s/n. The cover is NOT original.
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I noticed that, so that is a conclusive indication that the cover, ( even though the date and Tula star match the late 1950 style) is from a later time? Someone has proven that the guy in the factory who stamps the receivers, triggers and covers is all the same fella with the same stamps, that is a stretch, but either way I have a nice sks, that one cost me $159. 4 years ago, and now Cabelas has them on for $199.cdn free shipping. I will post the cover pic and a few more tomorrow,, Christmas party tonight, and any other pics you would like. Got a 49 ( maybe) with laminate stock but contoured for spike, 90 dog gas port etc but would like to know more about that one too, it is fairly heavy refurb but looks ok.
I like/enjoy the sks, and finding out all this info is interesting/ frustrating, then again, they are Russian and the guys in the factories were likely loaded on Vodka so who knows what happened! It wasn't long ago that someone figures out the 55/56 were actually 56/57/58!
 
bobdbldr said:
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From the photo crown alone, this barrel does not appear to be chrome lined. On a chrome lined bore, the crown will have distinct, shiny chrome inner circumference indicating the presence of a chromed inner sleeve.


like these:

https://goo.gl/images/a5Ysjw

https://goo.gl/images/kpYVHf


muzzle crown on my 1950 Tula with no chrome lining:

http://forums.gunboards.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1697146&d=1478192014


Maybe you can post some HD photos of the muzzle taken in Indirect, natural light?
 
Boris Badinov said:
From the photo crown alone, this barrel does not appear to be chrome lined. On a chrome lined bore, the crown will have distinct, shiny chrome inner circumference indicating the presence of a chromed inner sleeve.


like these:

https://goo.gl/images/a5Ysjw

https://goo.gl/images/kpYVHf


muzzle crown on my 1950 Tula with no chrome lining:

http://forums.gunboards.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1697146&d=1478192014


Maybe you can post some HD photos of the muzzle taken in Indirect, natural light?
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Sure, but the bores don't have a liner as such, they are surfaced with Chrome by electroplating, your second pic shows some splatter on the inner edges of the muzzle and the first one looks to have a better job done of cleaning up the muzzle after electroplating. I will try to get the pics tonight, but I am using an iPad camera, which sometimes makes nice pics but other times not so much, likely the fault of the user!
 
bobdbldr said:
Sure, but the bores don't have a liner as such, they are surfaced with Chrome by electroplating, your second pic shows some splatter on the inner edges of the muzzle and the first one looks to have a better job done of cleaning up the muzzle after electroplating. I will try to get the pics tonight, but I am using an iPad camera, which sometimes makes nice pics but other times not so much, likely the fault of the user!
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The second photo is of a refurb gun that has had the muzzle reblued or painted black, the paint does not adhere to the chrome of the inner circumference as easily as it does to the steel of the outer circumference.
 
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