My first gun! SKS Norinco, hardwood

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(PLEEEASE refrain from malicious newbie replies - I AM a newbie and am learning as I go. I ask for forgiveness in advance :) )

Ok, technically no my 'first' gun purchase - I ordered a Ruger 10/22 50th Anniversary online a few days ago from Cabelas - should be here next week some time.

But this is the first guns/ammo purchase I made in person and the first to have my hands on.

Norinco SKS, hardwood stock, 7.62x39, and got 700rnds of surplus ammo for $149 (and another box of 'better' ammo, 20rnds for about 9 bucks I believe)

It was my first time buying an ammo can like that and wasn't expecting to open it with a screwdriver and hammer (no tool came with it). Only took 5 mins and was easy to do though.

I'm sure there's flaws that the trained I can spot right away (I do not have a trained eye, yet :( )

Sorry for the quality of the shots as I just took them with my phone right when I got home with it.

Can't wait to try it out!










 
fiddler said:
Your gun looks Russian, not a Norinco (chinese)
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OOOP! Could be - can anyone else verify this? I couldn't see the tag on this one - the 2 next to it said Norinco SKS but they were both laminated, and IMO laminate looks like garbage as it ages: it flakes off and looks gaudy, whereas wood gets a nice deep dark look to it.
 
You didn't post any pictures of the markings to confirm but I agree...that looks Russian. If the markings are in Cyrillic then it's a Russian.
 
Chinese SKS didn't use Birch or Laminate, and didn't use a blade bayonet. The ammo pouch and rifle strap are also Russian.

If you show a pic of the top of your reciever, it will show the serial number, armory, manufacture date, and any rebuild marks. Your ammunition is also Russian 1973 vintage, good stuff.


Either way , Russian, Chinese , or something in the middle, you have a fine shooter that will operate for many years of schits n giggles at the gravel pit of firing range.
 
More pics coming about the markings.
BUT... I was watching a video on the takedown/breakdown of it ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ_R5RKK1Ko ), and attempted to start... in the vid he mentions the straight part of the spring should be a the FORWARD end of the gun. I started and took the spring out and saw the straight part of the spring was toward the REAR of the gun :






The rid inside the spring has the skinny end pointed forward (inside the curled part of the spring) and the fatter end of the rod is pointed toward the rear of the gun (inside the straight part of the spring).

Was this put in backward by the last person who handled it before it game to the store for sale?
 
^^ Thanks ;)

As for my question about the recoil spring, it looks like the guy in the video I was watching was wrong. According to this page ( http://www.yooperj.com/SKS-8.htm -near the bottom of the page ) it shows the straight part of the spring facing the back of the gun. So mine came to me in correct assembly :)
 
DarkSkyx said:
^^ Thanks ;)

As for my question about the recoil spring, it looks like the guy in the video I was watching was wrong. According to this page ( http://www.yooperj.com/SKS-8.htm -near the bottom of the page ) it shows the straight part of the spring facing the back of the gun. So mine came to me in correct assembly :)
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Yes, the wiggly end of the spring goes inside the bolt.


The SKS D is a Chinese made for Consumer rifle with a Detatchable mag. You have a Russian Tula that needs to get out to the gravel pit.
 
what you have there is the genuine article a russian made 1952 refurbished originally made in the tula arsenal
much better than a new chinese norc from a historical purist red rifle lover like myself
congrats shes a beauty beware they tend to multiply
safe shooting
 
chadeech said:
what you have there is the genuine article a russian made 1952 refurbished originally made in the tula arsenal
much better than a new chinese norc from a historical purist red rifle lover like myself
congrats shes a beauty beware they tend to multiply
safe shooting
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Thanks a bunch!! It's not like me to get GOOD news about something I bought that I'm not completely knowledged about. The more I read about them, there's like an entire subculture dedicated to these things. And being nostalgic about the whole Cold War area, growing up in the 80's worrying about USSR bombs lighting up the sky brighter than the Sun, the great Canada vs. Russia hockey games, etc... it's awesome to have a physical piece of that!
 
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