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At the end of the day it is an SKS.... Just shoot the sh!t out of it and have fun. Who cares what number/letter/symbol/ancient alien carving is on the side.
 
Yes it is a Chinese 56. There are different schools of thought on these. One they could have been built to be used by insurgents in other countries that China was supporting but for political reasons didn't want these to be traced back to them thus the "Scrubbed" SKS. Or they were simply SKS's that were made at one or more of the remote factories that assembled the SKS's but didn't make the parts, thus parts were supplied by the bigger less remote factories and not knowing factory they were going to be assembled in they didn't mark them. The remote smaller assembly factories may have had limited stamping facilities thus only stamping a serial number. I have one of these too and it is definitely a Military 56 SKS. It has a milled trigger guard thus it wasn't a cheap knock off as they stopped the milling of the trigger group mid production. They would not mill parts if it was some cheap knockoff. Myself I kind of subscribe to the first theory. Nonetheless it is no knockoff. It is built like all the other military type 56 SKS's. As to those who have a bug up their butt about the Chinese SKS's being inferior have not shot one. These guns were made by the Chinese government for the protection of the country to military spec. They didn't make these as cheap western trade goods like modern cheap "Made in China" products. Even the later ones made for the Western market like the SKS D and the Paratooper, Cowboy Companion etc., were actual Military Type 56 SKS's that were modified for the Western market. The only reason the Chinese SKS's were cheaper in our market than the Russian has nothing to do with quality of manufacture, but everything to do with the fact that Millions more Chinese SKS's were made than the Russian. The Russians only made them for 7 or so years. Then the Russians gave them the tooling and the Chinese made them for decades. Thus the lower price. However low price no more... but to answer the OP's question yes it is a real Type 56 SKS, quit whining and take it to the range and shoot it already...
 
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bigmac10attack said:
You can shoot .308 in your 7.62x51 rifle, but you can't shoot 7.62x51 in your .308 rifle. Also, bananas make a good snack. :dancingbanana:
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I was under the impression (after reading a few articles online) that this is the other way around. You can shoot 7.62x51 in .308 rifles but not the other way because commercial .308 rifles are spec'd for higher pressures.
Which is opposite to the 5.56/.223 chamberings which allow 223 safely in 5.56 but caution is required the other way around..
 
No chinese symbols on mine either....

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Ok, I'm over it... drool...
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LSB said:
Got mine from Marstar a while back and it is like the one in the picture. Same markings.
I was told by a Chinese person that the 3 Chinese symbols are the Chinese numbers for what is in the triangle (= plant number).
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I read chinese. The 3 symbols after the triangle are 5, 6 and something like weapon. Usually the chinese would write 5,10,6 if they wanted the number 56 (5x10+6=56) But in this case they are written more like how we Canadians would write the number 56.

In any case that is how my Marstar SKS looks....not sure what you got. Post a pic
 
jonythebeast said:
I was under the impression that the Chinese military SKS (type 56) had a marking followed by 3 chinese symbols denoting "type 56". However the Chinese miltary sks's advertised on your site do not have any of these markings at all. Which leads me to believe that these are export SKS's that have been falsely labelled as a military SKS.
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Seeing as how this is posted in the "Red Rifles" section and not any business members section, I have to ponder as to who your even directing this at...
 
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