Mystery SKS accessory?

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what is this thing? :confused:
 
jdman said:
Man there are some smart guys on this site, i never would have guessed that. What a good idea!:)
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The idea of a instructors aiming device or an aim corrector device has been around since WW1, and maybe as long as people have been using firearms in combat. :D

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Some more really neat Enfield ones on this site...

http://www.rifleman.org.uk/Aim_teaching_devices.htm

Personally I'd love to find the one for the SKS. :)
 
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They may be albanian, as no other comblock country I know of had a red star cockade and the very unusual cap; most countries had dropped the red star by the 1960's and adopted a more nationalistic symbol. Only the chinese still use it, but it is not applicable here.
As a side note, I'm not sure they are volunteers as there was no volunteer service in the comblock, all compulsory; the red collar patch shows the branch is infantry.
The east was, is and will be a mystery to the west for the next 1000 years or so...
Being albanians doesn't mean they had to use an albanian made gun, if such thing really exists.

heavyBullet said:
Don't believe everything you read T lol Wiki has lots of strange information floating around.
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Albania used a lot of Chinese weaponry including Type 56 carbines, Type 63 rifles etc.

The turned down receiver cover latch and matching cut out on the stock tells me this is a late Factory 26 Type 56 (12 to 14 million series, IIRC) as well as the stamped trigger guard which is uniquely Chinese. Note the lack of a milled cutout on the bolt carrier, another Chinese feature.

Albanian military certainly as I can't think of any other European communist nation that was on friendly terms with the PRC after 1960.

Enver Hoxha adopted a version of Maoism for Albania, rejecting "revisionist" Marxism and even granted a base for the PLA Navy on the Adriatic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enver_Hoxha#Relations_with_China

Good picture, btw.
 
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Romania was on very friendly terms with the PRC, but no chinese military hardware was ever imported as the country had its own military industry.

eos said:
Albania used a lot of Chinese weaponry including Type 56 carbines, Type 63 rifles etc.
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Albanian military certainly as I can't think of any other European communist nation that was on friendly terms with the PRC after 1960.
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Very cool - I'd love to get ahold of one of those.

I have a confession. I was going to suggest that it was for them to apply their lipstick. :p
 
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