@Loose-Cannon
What do you think of this one?
What little is shown, I don't particularly see any questionable issues wth this one.
SKS need help , please
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What little is shown, I don't particularly see any questionable issues wth this one.
C'mon someone give me that wealth of knowledge on mine!
The carbine in the mgur link is a refurb. Stock is a replacement and it has been sanded and refinished.
Most of the photos of the serials are to blurry to see.
Can you post a photo of the EP serial on the gas tube and piston shaft?
Also, great looking carbine ya got there.
Nice catch.
Ok made a new album, hopefully pics are clear, I've been sitting on this rifle for awhile, I just wanted to know everything I could about it, was hoping it wasn't a refurb
http://imgur.com/a/9k8e0WD
http://imgur.com/a/9k8e0WD
My laminate K series from weimajack does not have the K at the end of the serial number on the stock and is stamped higher up from the butt plate. Sold as non refurb.
@Gmoney47
There were several GRAU arsenal facilities commonly known as refurb facilities. So one can search for commonalities only among rifles retfurbed at the same place and time. They used recycled stocks, NOS stocks, arsenal made stocks and sometime stocks original to refurb rifle. On recycled stocks old serials were either ###ed or sanded, both practices are observed.
There is one thing I find very strange about your rifle and it is the serial. Stock itself is sanded factory made. So refurb it is. But serial is very strange. Specifically the way two first letter are stamped.
There were several GRAU arsenal facilities commonly known as refurb facilities. So one can search for commonalities only among rifles retfurbed at the same place and time. They used recycled stocks, NOS stocks, arsenal made stocks and sometime stocks original to refurb rifle. On recycled stocks old serials were either ###ed or sanded, both practices are observed.
There is one thing I find very strange about your rifle and it is the serial. Stock itself is sanded factory made. So refurb it is. But serial is very strange. Specifically the way two first letter are stamped.
No kidding, what about it exactly?
Too late bud, you seemed like person who I could have had civilized discussion with and I was trying to present you several facts so you would make conclusion by yourself. This was until you snapped and went ballistic. Now I'm focusing on reading Matthew 7:6 if you know what I mean.
Make a pic of stock serial straight from above, no angle.
So to sum it up:
4 years ago you got the 1958 "K" rifle. There were immediately some concerns about is "original-ness" because of the star stamp on the stock. (Seen on gunboards.com)
At some point in the last 4 years you.sold it as an.ALL-MATCHING, all original carbine. However, despite all the other photos you took of it when you had it in your posession, you didn't bother to take even one photo of the gas tube and piston shaft to demonstrate that the rifle was in fact all matching.
Seems that if you know as much about the Soviet sks as you are so eager to claim, than it's obvious, even obligatory, that you would have snapped photos of each and every one of the matching, original serials prior to listing it for sale. Yet, somehow, by some remarkable coincidence you did not. And, conveniently, you no longer have the rifle.
Very curious.
Were you not aware when you sold it that all Soviet Sks45's have EP serials on the piston and gas tube?
Or did you conveniently delete, lose or simply "forget" to take photos of those pieces?
I take it from some of your earlier posts that you're in sales and distribution?
Most obvious is the K on the stock.
Beginning in late 1955, the Soviets omitted ALL date stamps on the stocks.
The 'K' at the end of your serial number is a year designator-- for the year 1958. Original 'k' rifles only have the K on the receiver serial number.
Ok, it looked from the angle that Cyrillic У is stamped with Latin Y, but I guess it's just the way shellack deformed the serial. Regardless, stock is refurbished and this fact defines rifle value for collector. Sorry to bring this news to you if you thought your rifle is factory original.
I wasn't sure to be honest, I paid $250, but the guy said it was original, and for that reason I've never shot it. Now that I know I think I'll just take it the farm and out a few hundred through it.
Thanks for the info, I do appreciate it.
Cheers, Greg
Yes, dear Boris. I'm in business of forgery, deception and trickery of poor souls. My name is Legion, for we are many.
I had only one sks in my miserable collector's life, and had to fake it to make a sale. All I know about skss, dear Boris, I learnt on your forum in stickies ( those dreadful threads you did not bother to check before showing up here and patronizing Canadian collectors about hardwood stocks that don't exist on letter series, otherwise you would have noticed that US collectors including your cheerleader colleague here agree that Harwood stock are real deal on letter series).
What do you want Boris? You want me to confess in something? You want to win an argument? You want to patronize ppl on this forum? Or do you want to have meaningful discussion? If latter you will have to change your tone and communicate as grown up.
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