Playing with one of my SKS rifles and the craziest thing just happened...

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I bought this SKS in January of 2015 as part of a really good sale. I didn't really want the rifle at the time but couldn't pass on the price. The rifle arrived, I looked it over, put a trigger lock on it, then stuck it off to the side in the gun rack. Never had any interest in it as I had many other SKS rifles at the time. My only shooters were my new Chinese SKS or my SKS-D. Other than a buddy's rifle, I've never shot a Russian SKS, or really had a desire to. So the rifle just sat there for 6 years until this week when I decided I'd maybe try make some space and let some of them go. It wasn't matching numbers. The receiver, bolt carrier, and cover match, but the stock, mag, and trigger group did not. I can't really figure a date on the thing. It's got nothing on the cover but refurb marks and the serial, and the receiver is the early production style, so of course, no star on the left of the receiver either.

So I'm kind of wandering around the house tonight, winding down for the evening and figure I'd have another look at that thing. Pick it up, look it over, discover nothing new. I'm standing there, rifle in my left hand, staring at the wrong serial number on the trigger guard, thinking to myself how cool it would be if there were a database for lost and found serial numbers so that guys could track down or reunite parts to the firearm they belong to. I look over at my reloading bench, my eyes find the spare trigger group I bought off a member here a couple years ago that's just been sitting on the top shelf collecting dust. Nothing is really going through my mind as I lean over and pick it up off the shelf. I slowly rotate it to look at the serial number. And that's when the goose bumps hit...

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"It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone."

Cue creepy music....
 
That is amazing. Id be walking around telling everybody that Id witnessed a miracle. So maybe the reunite plan has some merit. Start buying lottos wouldn't hurt either.
 
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Holy smokes, my guy... That's like, uncanny is an understatement. You a "believer" ?? Lol, there is a God, and he's a gunnie
 
I had a Mk. III Ross rifle - one of the ex-HMS Canada DA marked rifles. Discussed the rifle online, two chaps knew where the matching serial bayonet was. Eventually acquired the bayonet.
I heard of a similar story with a Brazilian Mauser rifle and its bayonet.

Those SKS rifles came into Canada in the same lot from the same source, so you can see how it could happen. Still remarkable that it did happen.
 
A believer? Yes. So I don’t know what to make of it because it’s just a rifle after all. Really cool experience though.

Making it up? Lol. I kind of expected every comment to be like that. Before sharing what happened I even started to doubt myself. But I’ve never had the rifle apart. I’ve never had any of the Russians apart except for my letter series just to make sure it was all kosher. But this rifle in particular I never had any interest in and considered it the bottom of my collection. They all just sat there, maybe to get used in the future one day, probably by someone else.

I lost some rifles and parts in a fire 3 years ago which left me with a barrelled action for a Chinese SKS. So when I saw the EE post for a trigger group I jumped on it. Never thought anything of it when it came. Just one piece I needed to get that rifle going again. I just put it on the shelf.

What really gets me is how I came to the point where I’m holding the rifle in my one hand and the trigger group in the other. I think I was extremely close to never piecing this together. Not once did I think to check, and I bet if it ever crossed my mind I’d have just brushed it off as impossible. But for some reason the trigger group has been on my mind this week. Probably because my SKSs were too. And then yesterday I kept coming back to that SKS. Probably thanks to a member here that PM’d me about. He got me asking myself some questions about it. So I must’ve went and looked the rifle over 3 different times yesterday. And the last time like I said, nothing was really going through my mind. At no point did I ask myself if that trigger group belonged to this rifle. I just was curious to see it’s serial number I guess. I imagine the feeling I had is what some people would experience right before thy faint.

Maybe I should go buy a lottery ticket. But after this I feel my luck may have been used up lol
 
tiriaq said:
I had a Mk. III Ross rifle - one of the ex-HMS Canada DA marked rifles. Discussed the rifle online, two chaps knew where the matching serial bayonet was. Eventually acquired the bayonet.
I heard of a similar story with a Brazilian Mauser rifle and its bayonet.

Those SKS rifles came into Canada in the same lot from the same source, so you can see how it could happen. Still remarkable that it did happen.
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That’s pretty cool. And yeah, makes sense the barrelled action stayed together and the rest was probably assembled from a bin or pile of parts.
 
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