Jungle stock sks

I have seen the Chinese fiberglass SKS. I don't think they are nice, the only good thing about those now is that they are basically new with possible storage marks. The wooden stocks are flimsy, easy solution: switch to a Russian stock.
 
I read that Uncle Sam ran some jungle trials with an eye to seeing how typical US military stocks (walnut, etc) would stand up to prolonged exposure to tropical jungle conditions over time. The wood stocks fared badly. They were simulating wartime conditions where troops had minimal maintenance resources with high operational tempo. This is the reason the fibreglass M14 stocks were developed.

I'd wager the commies came to a similar conclusion. Another example of convergent design.

The Chinesia PLA officials will never release info on the development of their military products. People are still trying to unravel the mystery of the Norinco AR 15 clones which were once sold in Canada.
 
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fat tony said:
I read that Uncle Sam ran some jungle trials with an eye to seeing how typical US military stocks (walnut, etc) would stand up to prolonged exposure to tropical jungle conditions over time. The wood stocks fared badly. They were simulating wartime conditions where troops had minimal maintenance resources with high operational tempo. This is the reason the fibreglass M14 stocks were developed.

I'd wager the commies came to a similar conclusion. Another example of convergent design.

The Chinesia PLA officials will never release info on the development of their military products. People are still trying to unravel the mystery of the Norinco AR 15 clones which were once sold in Canada.
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They sold or provided hundreds of thousands of those M16 (AR15) clones in the Middle East, Africa, and other conflict regions. The rifles we saw were identical. Many of the types that went to the conflict zones were not full auto capable.
 
We had the Jungle stocks ones coming mixed together with wood stocked ones 25 years ago in chinese army crates, at that time the belief was those were part of an Albanian contract that was never completed after China and Albania had a falling out. In those crates we also found the sino-russian ones with the blade bayonets, early ones with machined receivers and some of the stamped receiver ones. You never new what you were getting untill you opened up the crates. Those crates contained ammo bras pouches, slings, oil bottles (Steel and plastic ones) and cleaning kits.
 
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JP said:
We had the Jungle stocks ones coming mixed together with wood stocked ones 25 years ago in chinese army crates, at that time the belief was those were part of an Albanian contract that was never completed after China and Albania had a falling out. In those crates we also found the sino-russian ones with the blade bayonets, early ones with machined receivers and some of the stamped receiver ones. You never new what you were getting untill you opened up the crates. Those crates contained ammo bras pouches, slings, oil bottles (Steel and plastic ones) and cleaning kits.
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Thank you, it is refreshing to get reliable info on this score. :)
 
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