Anyone with pics of their Izhevsk SKS

RMXC51- Tula and Izhevsk were different plants. Any combination of parts would have been done at a refurbishment. Good chance that it is a 50 with a Izzy receiver cover. If the receiver cover serial number matches the rest of carbine, it could have been scrubbed and matching serial number stamped. Pictures do not show S/Ns.
 
Everything matches, here are the S/Ns. The gas tube and mage were replaced when it got the new laminate stock, as they are EP'd. But the receiver cover bolt and receiver all match. I have seen enough weird '53's to think that the Izhevsk plant may have started building rifles with some Tula made parts and some Izhevsk made parts while they got their tooling up and running. You don't see this sort of strangeness with 1954 Izhevsks.
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I still think that it is a 50 with a scrubbed Izzy receiver cover. If you blow up the picture of serial number, it looks like there is a faint number showing (original s/n??). Also it looks like receiver cover is not flush with receiver, which also could indicate receiver cover being scrubbed. I could be wrong, but let other people give their opinion.
 
Russian Izzy SKS are great rifles but for myself i prefer the Yugo 59-66. Here is one i cleaned, it is brand new.
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jstin said:
I still think that it is a 50 with a scrubbed Izzy receiver cover. If you blow up the picture of serial number, it looks like there is a faint number showing (original s/n??). Also it looks like receiver cover is not flush with receiver, which also could indicate receiver cover being scrubbed. I could be wrong, but let other people give their opinion.
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I have an example of a scrubber mixmaster 53, so I know what you are talking about. Still has the Tula star and year on the stock and has a number of force matched parts. This one doesn’t fit the mold for a mixmaster. I still find it interesting that you just don’t see these mixmasters when it comes to 1954 produced rifles.
 
Parts appear to be renumbered. Receiver is in the LO prefix, and at renumbering process they mistook the O in serial number to be a zero. The serial is LO 560 I, not 0560 like stamped on most pieces in the photo.
Just my observation.

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1953 Izzy refurb, but as far as I can see the only thing not all matching is the laminate stock. Low serial number too. I purchased this sometime in the mid 90’s when Russian models were few and Chinese SKS’s dominated the market.
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This is a good thread. This is interesting to note that the parts were forced matched. Most of the numbers appear clear with no scrubbing except that trigger but I don’t know SKS that well so I’m finding this very interesting to see the various observations noted buy you guys. Keep em coming. I’m tempted to put pics up of my SKS-D and Yugo M59/66 to see what you guys think of them. May have to start a separate thread for each
 
Unfortunately it's hard to find the Izzy SKS nowadays especially the one never been refurbished, I managed to get 3 of them when there are plenty of them out there in the wild, I should have bought more than 3. Kinda regret until now.
 
RMXC51- On your 53 Izzy receiver cover, it has at least 2 refurbishment marks and possibly a third. One square with slash in it and part of a diamond and possibly another diamond (or it may have been double stamped).
 
Never said it wasn't a refurb. I said I think it was built using some early Tula parts, as I have seen on many '53's. You don't see '54 Izhevsks with early Tula parts on them. I anyone here has such an SKS, please post pics.
 
RMXC51 said:
Never said it wasn't a refurb. I said I think it was built using some early Tula parts, as I have seen on many '53's. You don't see '54 Izhevsks with early Tula parts on them. I anyone here has such an SKS, please post pics.
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But why Tula would give parts to Izhevsk, When Tula was producing SKS up to 1958?
 
bobdbldr- You are right when you say at REFURB factories they don't care. At Tula and Izhevsk they build their own carbines from parts made at their factory. At refurb, if one or more parts need replacing they grab whatever is available.
 
There was a posting on a USA SKS forum about serial numbers with 2 numbers, lots of 3 and 4. I looked in my safe and found this 54 Izzy. When I questioned about 2 letters in front of numbers rather than the usual one before and one after(for 1954), their reply was that mine is a early 54 and that the change was made early-mid year. Now even though there is no refurb mark on receiver cover or stock. The stock is not original, it has the same S/N but does not have date or emblem on it. Also with the black bayonet, it also has been replaced.

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I have what I believe is a 53 Izzy with matching numbers except the stock (think anyway, will have to check); will pull it apart one of these days and double check but IIRC it is a full match except the stock. Pics to come.
 
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