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Still looking at the SKS rifles I dug out of the back of the vault. All but one appear to be a bunch of $99 Norincos I bought years ago.

The oddball has a threaded barrel. and a simple serial number. It is a small "w" and a five digit number. There are no other ID marks that I see.

The side of the bolt carrier, just under the cocking knob, has been milled out a bit and there are clear milling marks. The Chinese bolts are all smooth sided at the same place.

It has a blade bayo.
 
very interesting find.

it wont be easy to tell till you provide more info but it MAY (im hoping) be a sino-soviet SKS , very rare. keep looking for small symbol or print along the barrel or receiver.

some close up pics would help.
 
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One of the things that is so attractive about the SKS is that these guns come in to the country unsorted, so you could always potentially find one of these in a bunch of otherwise 'serviceable' but common rifles. My Factory 26 was surrounded by re-welded pinned barrel export rifles. It's made me somewhat obsessive about looking through SKS racks
 
Indeed, it's like an easter Egg hunt. :)

I found my 1960's Chinese Army one like this in a rack of some right fugly modern ones.
 
indeed , i hit the jack pot on the first pull , back in 2006 at leverarms , i stood there with a bunch of guys waiting for the clerk to remove the cable from the rack, the guys rushed forward and went for the nicest looking woods, so i started to look at the 4 that was left , i looked for the barrel lug and there it was , only one with the ugliest wood i ever saw, black pot marks , the finger grooves werent cut properly, next i got excited when i saw a 26 in a triangle , it was a 1965 . as we stood in line to pay , they were showing off how nice their rifle looked, unmatched and pinned.:D

i gave it to my son for his birthday and he painted the stock and recently i bot a red fiberglass jungle stock for it, it looks real nice .

it is still my favorite among my SKSs, even over the russian and yugo.:eek: why??? cos it only cost $149 .

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OK, I will take a picture.

Is factory 26 a collector? My son painted the stock green. When that did not work he threw it away an put it in a plastic stock. The metal work is not damaged. It is missing the factor magazine, but he is sure it is around here somewhere. So all I need is an old Chinese stock. Some of my other rifles are old Chinese with blade bayos, so I could use one of those, and use the plastic stock for a shooter.
 
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OK, I will take a picture.

Is factory 26 a collector?
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not for the late production and yes, for the early production.

the story goes, when russian decided to stop production of the sks , they donated an entire factory to china. russian shipped machinery, spare parts and personals to china . so your sino-soviet may have actual russian made parts , quite rare .
 
It has a "w" serial number (4 digits) If they started their serial numbers with "a", then this may not be all that 'early".

But maybe you mean it is a late production of the first batch.

This is going to be interesting. I will post pictures.
 
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It has a "w" serial number (4 digits) If they started their serial numbers with "a", then this may not be all that 'early".

But maybe you mean it is a late production of the first batch.
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i dont know what you mean about the "a" and "early".

lets say factory 26 with a cyrillic letter and 4 digit is 1956 , and 7 digit in the one million is 1957 are both sino-soviet.
 
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My ignorance is showing. That is why I am fishing here. I may not know enough to be able to ask an intelligent question.

I assumed they started with a0001 to a9999 then changed over to b0001, etc.

So w1608 would be ?? Late make or early?

Other Chinese rifles don't seem to use this letter and 4 digit system. Are all factor 26 rifles numbered that way, or only for a period of time?
 
lets back track a bit, when we say early chinese sks , we mean made in the 60s and earlier . late sks would be 70s and later.

couldnt tell you when in 1956 your sks was made but luckily for us factory 26 has a serial numbering system that tell us what year it was built .

if serial number has a symbol plus 4 digit then its was made in the first year 1956 or part of 1957, serial number less than 2 million (1,999,999) then that would be in 1957 , less than 3 million (2,999,999) then that would be in 1958 and so on .

so mine had 9,###,### that would be 9+1956=1965 ..... you get the picture.
 
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OK, I get it. So first year has more interest than, say , year 3. And it might have some soviet parts.
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correct , from my research sometime in 1957 , the russian parts ran out and the russian personals left for home and the chinese workers took full control and began production at 1,000,001 . this sks with this serial number will also be worth alot on money.

again according to my research, the chinese continue building the sks the way they were taught till the late 60s then they had to build it fast to supply the vietnam war.
 
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The /26\ marking, milled parts/threaded bbl as well as the letter/4 digit serial strongly suggests a Sino-Soviet T56. Get yourself the proper blade bayonet, sling and cleaning rod and your carbine will be complete.
 
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