'52 tula conundrum

[emmab]

Hello, well I just received my second SKS, this time from Yorkton. A real beautiful piece. It has the proper mag pinning and appears to be an original........... except....... the the stock is a 1951 model(stamped in) with the original numbers XXed out and matched to the rifle. After a few russian cigarettes I started to think of the possibility of this '51 stock being original to the '52 rifle.

Picture yourself slaving away at the Tula factory assemblig rifles, it's the summer of 1952. You look around and Comrade Jeffe is no where to be seen. You reach over and grab last years stock out of a refinished bin and slap it on. Home in time for borsht. What's the difference? Did anybody even care back then how these "tools" looked aesthetically. I was also wondering if ALL stocks are/were number matched to the rifle. I'll post pics for the people waiting on sir lol

 

[Woodbeef]

A couple of weeks ago an un-numbered 1952 Tula stock with handguard,sold on Ebay for $48 US. So there are ones out there that were never numbered. It was dark red also.

 

[Light Infantry]

Hello, well I just received my second SKS, this time from Yorkton. A real beautiful piece. It has the proper mag pinning and appears to be an original........... except....... the the stock is a 1951 model(stamped in) with the original numbers XXed out and matched to the rifle. After a few russian cigarettes I started to think of the possibility of this '51 stock being original to the '52 rifle.

Picture yourself slaving away at the Tula factory assemblig rifles, it's the summer of 1952. You look around and Comrade Jeffe is no where to be seen. You reach over and grab last years stock out of a refinished bin and slap it on. Home in time for borsht. What's the difference? Did anybody even care back then how these "tools" looked aesthetically. I was also wondering if ALL stocks are/were number matched to the rifle. I'll post pics for the people waiting on sir lol

I have a 51 that is new and non-refurbished, all matching numbers except for the stock, which was X'ed out and restamped with the new matching numbers.

 

[emmab]

 

[Paulinski]

Very nice Emmab.

 

[emmab]

Thanks. Luck of the draw I guess. Kinda like a box of chocolates. Maybe it's your orignal stock, Light infantry! LOL. Interesting about non numberd stocks and the ability to say it could be original

 

[Light Infantry]

Thanks. Luck of the draw I guess. Kinda like a box of chocolates. Maybe it's your orignal stock, Light infantry! LOL

Hey maybe! See if you can dechipher the original numbers and i will check my stock at home!!

 

[emmab]

Hey maybe! See if you can dechipher the original numbers and i will check my stock at home!!

You better lay off those russian smokes too! Cheers

 

[Curtton]

You better lay off those russian smokes too! Cheers

what !!! no vodka?

very nice P ... also golden bayo .

 

[emmab]

Hi Curtton. I noticed that this one has the correect trigger base, as you pointed out before, for the year and I believe the gas block is an early version too. Not only is the bayo gold, the snap hook is too!!(with a little mold as well)

 

[Curtton]

Not only is the bayo gold, the snap hook is too!!(with a little mold as well)

would you say the snap hook and the bayo are coated with the same product? does it have the same texture , feel ?

 

[emmab]

I think its old packing grease. Not to pop any bodies bubble

 

[Curtton]

I think its old packing grease. Not to pop any bodies bubble

why would they put packing grease on a snap hook? and manage not to get it on the sling itself. hmmmm.

 

[Woodbeef]

Brake-clean won't cut it. Not sure what it is exactly on the bayonets.

 

[eos]

The Russians never threw out a useful weapon or part therereof. I have no doubt that re-numbered stocks were used on otherwise unrefurbed arms.

Emmab's stock shows the usual inspector marks and factory markings typical of a new issue carbine.