Chinese Type 63- Full auto sks

[JimDO]

Saw this rifle hanging on the wall at a range in Cambodia,,,

I had no idea wtf it was but it looked like an sks at 1st glance,,and the employees at the range called it an sks,,or ckc(what a lot of Viets n Cambodians call the sks).

So i grabbed it and took some pics,,

Its made at the famous factory 26

Anyone ever see any of these before in Canada?

Apparently most were made in select fire,,so full auto fun if you wanted to.

After a bit of digging,,I learned that its a Type63

 

[bp2626]

Very cool, I haven't seen one in person before.

Failed successor to the Type 56 but and based off the AK system.

 

[SniperInTheMaking]

Cool pics Jim! Hope you had fun over in Asia

 

[JimDO]

Ya we did,, but enjoyed Europe more

 

[leosnipes]

I've seen many firearms design/copied from China, but not this one! gotta do some google-fu about this....

 

[collector67]

Now THAT is cool! Many thanks for posting.

 

[Still alive]

Ya we did,, but enjoyed Europe more

But betcha you didn't hold a cool select fire rifle in Europe in your hot little hands!

 

[Curtton]

I don't think there were any imported here but I don't why cos they were exported to Australia (semi).

did they allow you to take pics of the inside of t63 ?

thanks for the pic , I wonder if that rifle seen any action ?

 

[Mopar318]

wow I learnt something today

 

[JimDO]

I don't think there were any imported here but I don't why cos they were exported to Australia (semi).

did they allow you to take pics of the inside of t63 ?

thanks for the pic , I wonder if that rifle seen any action ?

My mistake was not knowing what I had at the time,,Im sure I could have taken photos inside of it but I didnt

 

[Turkinator]

Hey weren't they selling these at Canadian Tire? rofl

 

[JimDO]

lol,,doubt it,, full auto sks? i wish

 

[tiriaq]

It isn't a full auto SKS.
It is styled so that it resembles one, but mechanically it is quite different.
Its mechanism is more like an AK, with a rotating bolt.
Any in this country would be prohibited 12-2 or 12-3. Don't know if any made it in or not.

 

[Mumbles Marble Mouth]

The Type 63 was a fail attempt to make a successor over the Type 56 SKS. Its obvious the Chinese favored the SKS over the AK but they did realize the advantage of having full automatic capabilities. Type 63 was very low production due to it being very unreliable. The Type 63 is also very loosely related to the SKS. Its like how the Vz 58 looks like an AK but its not an AK. Later the Type 81 succeeded over the Type 56 SKS just in time for the Sino-Vietnamese border conflicts.

 

[Curtton]

china haven't fought in 25 years when they crossed the border in 1979 . they learnt a lot going up against the battle harden Vietnamese, they learnt their battle strategies and equipment were obsolete .