Authentic SKS-D or not?
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Well you have heard the good news. you have the real McCoy . I never knew they didn't come with a stripper clip guide. only know so much about the Chinese ones. didn't they come with a bayonet ? as I said I've never owned the D model . back from the good old days. I'll never forget and I can't remember how many years ago it was I went down into the basement of a buddy's friend and saw two Ak Variant's . Chinese. one was 762x39 and the other one 223 or 556. the one guy who had the 223 was complaining about pierced primers and I thought back then with the knowledge that I had then it was the firing pin . now as I'm writing this I'm thinking it was non mil spec primers . possibly .
you have to be careful nowadays . the person on that forum might be one of those people who know everything and know nothing. too many of those nowadays .
yes it is a real D as others have stated.
D models can come with the bayonet lug ground off neatly or intact , it depends on who the importer was and the specifics of how they wanted the rifles to appear.
The bolt carrier with no stripper clip guide is also a key feature on most but not all genuine D rifles. I have seen both.
I'm sure guys here that are into the finer details of the SKS rifles can tell you who the importer might have been.
Looks to me like the tooling marks on the stock screw might indicate a stock refinish but otherwise...... like a few others I may or may not have squirrelled away..... the OP's rifle looks awfully genuine to me. Whoever is telling you it is not obviously has a bigger mouth than thier knowledge or they are trying to set you up for a low ball offer. Probably the latter.
But here is an example of a BETA Arms import version and you will notice the intact bayonet lug and pin and the stock has the same features as the OP's
These rifles were all destined for the USA market until they werent ..... and were then offered to importers from Canada. Most but not all of my SKS collection came from Alan Lever in the early to mid 90's. You can see in the first pic that this rifle is not marked "SKS-D" as the OP's rifle shows. Still the Beta Arms 881 serial number rifles are genuine D rifles like the OP's but the importer chose the markings seen.
I'm tempted to pick up one of these new chinese sks imports but spare cash is not easy to come by these days. Truck parts for the restoration I'm doing are a bit more important right now
D models can come with the bayonet lug ground off neatly or intact , it depends on who the importer was and the specifics of how they wanted the rifles to appear.
The bolt carrier with no stripper clip guide is also a key feature on most but not all genuine D rifles. I have seen both.
I'm sure guys here that are into the finer details of the SKS rifles can tell you who the importer might have been.
Looks to me like the tooling marks on the stock screw might indicate a stock refinish but otherwise...... like a few others I may or may not have squirrelled away..... the OP's rifle looks awfully genuine to me. Whoever is telling you it is not obviously has a bigger mouth than thier knowledge or they are trying to set you up for a low ball offer. Probably the latter.
But here is an example of a BETA Arms import version and you will notice the intact bayonet lug and pin and the stock has the same features as the OP's
These rifles were all destined for the USA market until they werent ..... and were then offered to importers from Canada. Most but not all of my SKS collection came from Alan Lever in the early to mid 90's. You can see in the first pic that this rifle is not marked "SKS-D" as the OP's rifle shows. Still the Beta Arms 881 serial number rifles are genuine D rifles like the OP's but the importer chose the markings seen.
I'm tempted to pick up one of these new chinese sks imports but spare cash is not easy to come by these days. Truck parts for the restoration I'm doing are a bit more important right now
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I'm still looking for an sks-d stock with bayo groove if anyone has one kicking around lol
Thanks everybody; It's on the SKS Rifle Club Facebook forum. They are mostly Americans. They seem to think that the only authentic SKS-D rifles are the ones that came with a bayonet. I tried explaining to them that mine is not a USA importer.
i find these two american sites are the most useful, they are not 100% accurate but when it comes to SKS nothing are.
https://www.yooperj.com/SKS.htm
http://chinesesks.weebly.com/
so according to Josh on the SKS site in your second link..... the OP's rifle was a 2002 import as it has the dot matrix type markings.
All of mine bear the 881 serial #s which were the purpose made D rifles and not arsenal/importer refurbs or surplus
Wish I had kept a couple of the SKS Hunter models , I liked those beefy stocks compared to the standard fare.
All of mine bear the 881 serial #s which were the purpose made D rifles and not arsenal/importer refurbs or surplus
Wish I had kept a couple of the SKS Hunter models , I liked those beefy stocks compared to the standard fare.
Yes, this is it! http://chinesesks.weebly.com/canadian.html Looks like mine is the "third Canadian D variant" with the bayonet delete. Thanks Josh and everybody.
