SKS need help , please

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Hello gentlemen
I just got an SKS and it is came disassembled . Assembling was easy and the barrel and all mechanism sits tight but I got a gap between the stock and lower stock holder cap.
I'm not familiar with SKS and not sure if I should return it or it is nothing to be worry about .
Your help and advice will be greatly appreciated

 
Sometimes they need a little rubber mallet reminder other times they are just like that. They were made for the masses for mass charges on the enemy and for suppressing the rabble in the countryside.
 
The "stock holder cap" is known as the stock ferrule.

That space isn't common but it is seen from time to time. Especially on some of the Chinese guns with Albanian replacement stocks that were imported to the US between 2012-1015.

But I can't recall ever having seen this large of a gap on an original / as-issued gun. So the stock may be a replacement.

Is your carbine Russian or Chinese?

If the action fits into the stock inletting without excessive force, you should be good to go.

Can you post more pics of the entire rifle?
 
Boris Badinov said:
The "stock holder cap" is known as the stock ferrule.

That space isn't common but it is seen from time to time. Especially on some of the Chinese guns with Albanian replacement stocks that were imported to the US between 2012-1015.

But I can't recall ever having seen this large of a gap on an original / as-issued gun. So the stock may be a replacement.

Is your carbine Russian or Chinese?

If the action fits into the stock inletting without excessive force, you should be good to go.

Can you post more pics of the entire rifle?
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The key thing with the SKS is the fitment at the crossbolt and at the fit at the back of the tang lug (not sure what it would be called). Those are the places that contact needs to be in place. The front end of the stock sits in the ferrule but play there is unimportant in the SKS. As long as it isn't coming out of the ferrule there is no issue.
 
That's a really sweet looking carbine. Very nice catch, indeed. And at Canadian prices no doubt (even sweeter).


Is it a "И" letter rifle?

If so, the serial on the stock was likely done by the Canadian importer.
As the letter suffix designations werent stamped anywhere else on the rifle other than the receiver.

Original stocks were laminate on the 1957/ И letter rifles.
 
I've seen that before. Sometimes popping the trigger group (release is behind the trigger guard) and smacking the butt on the floor will move the stock into position a millimeter or two will help. Then you simply snap back the trigger group into the rifle and it looks much nicer. There can be some play in those, this is why you need to sometimes give it a whack on the floor when reassembling.

Good looking SKS right there. An original Russian, just as God intended!

:)
 
I’m the seller of the gun. This is an interesting one as the stock is stamped WP, Polish Army. It is a letter gun (I). I’ve found discussions involving a half dozen or so marked this way but nobody seems to know the story behind them.

As a side note, the letter guns can be either hardwood or laminate from factory. This particular gun is marked as a Russian refurb and the stock was likely replaced. I haven’t seen another one quite like it.

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Boris Badinov said:
That's a really sweet looking carbine. Very nice catch, indeed. And at Canadian prices no doubt (even sweeter).


Is it a "И" letter rifle?

If so, the serial on the stock was likely done by the Canadian importer.
As the letter suffix designations werent stamped anywhere else on the rifle other than the receiver.

Original stocks were laminate on the 1957/ И letter rifles.
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Where did you get that info, form what I have heard and seen, the letter series had both types of stock installed at the factory, a friend has a beautiful 58 that is either light refurb or non refurb, with an awesome cherry red birch stock! I could not find anything on it that would indicate refurb! I do have a couple refurb birch stock and refurb laminate stock letter series too!
 
Boris Badinov said:
That's a really sweet looking carbine. Very nice catch, indeed. And at Canadian prices no doubt (even sweeter).


Is it a "И" letter rifle?

If so, the serial on the stock was likely done by the Canadian importer.
As the letter suffix designations werent stamped anywhere else on the rifle other than the receiver.

Original stocks were laminate on the 1957/ И letter rifles.
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Sorry but the last part is incorrect.

This has been discussed in some detail on other forums, laminate was used late in production but almost all done during refurb. Late rifles also left with hardwood stocks.

There is a very easy way to tell if a laminate was original or refurb by a tab or no tab on the buttplate top. (Ie; if it curves at the top or is flat.)
 
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pcvando said:
Sorry but the last part is incorrect.

This has been discussed in some detail on other forums, laminate was used late in production but almost all done during refurb. Late rifles also left with hardwood stocks.

There is a very easy way to tell if a laminate was original or refurb by a tab or no tab on the buttplate top. (Ie; if it curves at the top or is flat.)
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This is incorrect.

The overwhelming majority (possibly all) of the 57-58 Soviet guns had original, RED, laminate stocks and handguards.

Blonde/Orange laminate stocks are considered to be consistent with replacement or refurbishment.

Canadian imports are unreliable as a metric for determing boriginal condition, due to the extent to which Canadian importers and or distributors modified or wholly refinished them.

Dedicated, two decades long, research on the sks demonstrates that 1957-58 sks45s were issued in laminate stocks with matching laminate handguards almost without exception. The transition to laminate occurred from 1955-56, so there will be numerous examples of carbines from those years in either hardwood or laminate stocks and exhibiting traits associated with original condition.

Tab shape of the butt plate is an inaccurate determiner for stock originality. As there is no way to determine with any certainty if the butt plate is original or a replacement.
 
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