My first gun! SKS Norinco, hardwood

Mumbles Marble Mouth said:
The Chinese used a blade bayonet on their early SKS. Go on youtube and search, Classic Firearms Type 56. Its rare, but you can find a laminate Chinese SKS.
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Yes they did. They are extremely rare, and unless you can find one I didn't see the point of mentioning it. And further, the guy clearly posted a pic of a Russian SKS and NOT a Chinese rifle, but I'm glad you're impressed with your post. Maybe a little more common sense and less youtube surfing and you can improve the quality of your posts to be relevant and current with the discussion.
 
crashcollins said:
Just to be clear! That doesn't actually see any gas! It's a tappet piston not a gas piston so it won't need cleaning of any corrosive residue. Just clean the cosmo off it then a little oil and your good to go.
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Yeah, I would call it more of a spring, but it kinda looks like a piston. I figure as long as a person knows its there is all that counts.


As wonderful as computers are, I prefer to have a printed copy of all my rifles. When your hands are greasy and black, it is not the time to be using your laptop to look for a diagram or instruction manual. If you have a paper copy that gets greasy, you can always print another one.
 
Great post! Don't worry about the arrogant $%#@$ on here. They really are a good bunch...but their wives beat them so they have to come on here to reclaim their battered manhood. I had just emailed one of the vendors on this site, asking about the norc sks. I'm thinking about picking one up (hell, maybe a 3-pack lol) but was just wondering if this type of sks had the removable box magazine? Too many kinds of sks' out there, hard to keep track.
DarkSkyx said:
(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!










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CoonT said:
Great post! Don't worry about the arrogant $%#@$ on here. They really are a good bunch...but their wives beat them so they have to come on here to reclaim their battered manhood. I had just emailed one of the vendors on this site, asking about the norc sks. I'm thinking about picking one up (hell, maybe a 3-pack lol) but was just wondering if this type of sks had the removable box magazine? Too many kinds of sks' out there, hard to keep track.
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Thanks!

No, mine doesn't have a removable mag - it flaps down with the mag release, but doesn't detach as far as I know. You might be able to fit a detachable mag in there with the fixed mag flapped down though. (I'm new to this and am still learning :) )
 
CoonT said:
I'm thinking about picking one up (hell, maybe a 3-pack lol) but was just wondering if this type of sks had the removable box magazine? Too many kinds of sks' out there, hard to keep track.
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As said earlier, the only SKS that came with a removable (Detachable) mag were the Chinese "built for consumer" market in the eighties. There were several versions of it, but the odd one shows up for sale here and there. There are only 3 common SKS rifles that you would find in Canada, Russian, Chinese, and Consumer Chinese. Other examples of SKS rifles such as Yugoslavian, Bulgarian, Albanian, ect, ect, are out there, but much more rare to be seen up for sale.


The Type 56 Chinese military sks were (are) very good rifles, new and unissued. Marstar had a boatload of them and were popular for the last several years but I think their supply has dwindled. The Chinese SKS were built using the same machines as the Russians. When Russia discontinued production of the SKS45, all machines, factories, and some employees were dropped on a train and sold to China, where the first sks56 were built. The Chinese used a different type of wood, and changed the machining of a few parts, and probably improved the quality of the rifle, if the not the manufacturing process.

In the Eighties, China had began to produce consumer rifles with the exact same equipment that the Russian and Chinese military had used to produce their rifles. This was done under the "Norinco" factory name, and it has stuck since, even though previous rifles were not Norinco.

THe name Norinco is a group of factories who makes firearm parts and rifles. Other names of factories you might hear would be Jianshee or Factory26. In China, private firearm ownership is prohibited by law thus lies the security of only producing single parts in a factory. Parts only were shipped via train to secret locations for assembly. This method of parts production prevented anyone from taking home the "chevy in the lunch box" so to speak. Only the military (government) knew where the assembled rifles were kept. This continues today in China.

The quality of the consumer market rifles is said to be inferior, but oddly I have one and have been shooting it since the early eighties with thousands of rounds through it, and it is every bit a stand up rifle as the military version. I have several of each.


One last point, and perhaps my opinion is that an SKS rifle is infallible in its original configuration. Aftermarket removable mags, stocks, and scopes are the only source of malfunction on these rifles. In 35 years, I've had almost no repairs on my work bench for a stock sks rifle. I do however have boxes of crap, parts, and pieces of failed modifications over the years that I've removed to make them operational. Leave it alone, and keep it clean.
 
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fiddler said:
Yes they did. They are extremely rare, and unless you can find one I didn't see the point of mentioning it. And further, the guy clearly posted a pic of a Russian SKS and NOT a Chinese rifle, but I'm glad you're impressed with your post. Maybe a little more common sense and less youtube surfing and you can improve the quality of your posts to be relevant and current with the discussion.
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Give this guy a Jedi award for pulling off a Piers Morgan response. ovrec
 
There is an inherent need to correct other members here on every little detail said, regardless of its relevance to the thread at hand. Kinda gets old. Almost like they are trying to publicly discredit the person.
 
Mumbles Marble Mouth said:
Give this guy a Jedi award for pulling off a Piers Morgan response. ovrec
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......Piers Morgan ,did he get sent back to England to work on the tabloids or did he just die ?

Either way ,it`s all good !!!!!! He reminded me of Wendy Kooky####s with a #### ,major anti-gun fruitcake.

Peace my brothers (can`t believe I said that.....cause hippies stink !)

Either way ,nice Russian ,and yes ,the OEM mag does come out and "may" be replaced with aftermarket 5/20 , 5/30 ,5/40 and 5/1000 mags.BUT ,most guys here draw the line at 5/40s. LOL

Just kidding ;=)

Paul T
 
That's really quite remarkable. I had no idea that the 'lowly' sks, had such a significant history to it.
We really take firearms for granted here, don't we? Here in the West, "Ah, I may pick up a few, just because" while in other parts of the world, there are people who can only dream of ever owning one. (didn't Justin Trudeau recently profess his admiration for communist China?)

So, one of each it is :)
 
After letting my FAC lapse(way back in the day when things were so much more simple) and then years later getting my RPAL ,my first rifle was a nice Chinese SKS ,then another ,then another and then 3 more.Mind you I did have a few .22s ,shotguns and a 30-06 much before that time ,and back then the Chinese SKS`s were around $150 but never cheap ammo like you see today.Now I`m loading up on Russians and maybe another few Mosins ,as you can never have too many of those either ,which by the way was another one of my first purchases along with an SVT.

I would love one day to be able to add a nice Yugoslavian SKS to the gun room ,what a treat ! I used to always see plenty of Yugos at Cabelas in the USA ,racks full of `em and not very expensive either.......too bloody bad about that !

What`s not to like about any SKS ?

Cheers

paul T
 
crashcollins said:
Just to be clear! That doesn't actually see any gas! It's a tappet piston not a gas piston so it won't need cleaning of any corrosive residue. Just clean the cosmo off it then a little oil and your good to go.
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At pressure that the gas hit's the piston, there's no way you can tell me none make's it up that far.Have you ever wiped one down after firing a couple box's of shell's?
If there's carbon, there's will be corrosion. That's the nature of corrosive ammo.
 
I broke etiquette and did the unthinkable and ordered a UTG shell deflector for mine (I know, I know.. purists always say leave it stock, leave it stock).

Doesn't fit.

The mounting of it requires two bolts that are already on the gun be used to mount the shell deflector. Mine does not HAVE those two bolts. It's just a clean surface there. If the shell deflector is carbon steel I could easily weld (no, not redneck welding - I'm a TIG welder, it's what I do for my job) it on with some plug welds that wouldn't even be seen after some nice cleanup work - when I'm done with it, it would look like it came that way. But I've decided I don't want to make any permanent alterations to it. Unless anyone knows how to fit that deflector on my style of SKS. ??

Mine has a smooth surface much like seen in this picture, above the trigger / trigger guard. http://www.mountsplus.com/images09/tritech/Rifle_Sling_Delta_II-H.jpg
 
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