SKS with factory code 606 in triangle
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heavyBullet
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Is Chinese.
The best idea I think is to check if its a pinned barrel, look for machining shortcuts and if it has a stamped parts etc., then look at yoopers site and compare with the pics and dates he has for your parts. By doing a comparison it will give you an idea of when it was made( just not a precise date), but you should be able to get the general idea where it falls into Chinese manufacturing history.
The best idea I think is to check if its a pinned barrel, look for machining shortcuts and if it has a stamped parts etc., then look at yoopers site and compare with the pics and dates he has for your parts. By doing a comparison it will give you an idea of when it was made( just not a precise date), but you should be able to get the general idea where it falls into Chinese manufacturing history.
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heavyBullet
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That could not be further from the truth.
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I believe the dating system is limited to /26\ only. So as I mentioned you will have to look at all the parts of your rifle and compare them with the pics on yoopers site. I think that is your best way of getting a general idea of when it was made. All anyone can tell you for sure is that its Chinese without seeing pic's of many parts.
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Well with my total lack of command of the Chinese Language,I'd have to say.......Factory 606 -M56. As for the date. There should be a one or two digit number,then a space then you're serial number. The first numbers correspond to the year of manufacture. 1957 was #1,and so on.
Well in the Peterson Military Surplus annual magazine this is what they state.Early Chinese SKS used Russian tooling [screw in barrels]with blade bayonets and later Chinese made went to pinned barrels and the easier to manufacture spike.Also did away with the firing pin return spring that can now if dirty cause full auto and slam fires.They do make a replacement kit along with new US made pin...................not an expert just what I read...Harold
harold, im no expert either , in general what the magazine wrote is correct (except for the chinese having spring firing pin ). what you missed is a transistion period .
in pursuit of making SKS more economical to build, they did move from blade to spike bayo and from thread to pinned barrel , however , they did not do in tandem , the 30+ factories each had their own schedule and made those and other changes gradually .
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What you also have to remember is they built some from parts to sell on the civilian market. A few years ago there was an influx of ones with early 80s receivers,with blade bayos and mismatched parts. Most of these had un numbered stocks too.
Russians did away with the firing pin spring early on. Type 56 never had it.
Series of year 14 Type 56 (1970 - last year of series production from 1st wave of that factory) from Jianshe /26\ still continued to use threaded bbls although the spike bayonet was adopted mid way through series year 10 and the stamped trigger guard and gas tube from series year 11/12 onward.
I have never seen a /26\ (including the brief and last production run in of series year 25) that used a pinned bbl. and type 3 receiver. Jianshe /26\ went back into production during 1981/82 due to the failure of the Type 68, which was eventually withdrawn from PLA service due to Q/C and accuracy problems. This last run of Type 56 was needed until sufficient numbers of Type 81 were available.
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My Russian 1950 has the spring loaded pin 
