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I recently purchased a surplus SKS but it didn't have a factory production year stamp on the rear housing and on the top of the barrel underneath the gas cylinder, it has a marking on it that looks newer than the original stampings.

Here's a picture of the marking on the barrel. I'm thinking it's a replacement barrel and possibly a new rear housing.
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Anyone seen this before?

Also, what do you think is the best way to figure out the production year/info about the rifle. I've seen a few ways online but I was just wondering what advice this group had?
 
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The late 1955 thru 1956 Tula's did not have a receiver cover stamping on the top, instead you can use the letters in front of the serial number
to arrive at a possible time frame. The gold electro-plating on the barrel is now on most newly imported Russian SKS. Welcome to the Red Rifle
section of CGN.:wave:
 
It's done this way to avoid heat from the UN on releasing/selling surplus firearms. Russia marks them in this manner to pass them off as newly manufactured/remanufactured but are actually old Arsenal reman guns from the past just with new lettering and a commercial manufacturer exporter logo.----Dieseldog!
 
I read the article in the Caliber magazine for whats involved in importing SKS. The importers go though a tone of loops and bounds just to get these guns here. After reading that, $200 seems like a really good deal. The ammunition is even worse.
 
They are called Molot markings. The exporters in Russia couldn't export "Surplus Firearms" according to Russian law. Thus by marking them like this, it identifies them as "Sporting Rifles" thus working around the export laws.
 
Why couldn't that "Molot" marking have been done in Russian rather than English? I feel that it detracts from the authenticity of those SKS that are
marked that way (most of my SKS'):HR:
 
Robert Nicholson said:
Why couldn't that "Molot" marking have been done in Russian rather than English? I feel that it detracts from the authenticity of those SKS that are
marked that way (most of my SKS'):HR:
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Possibly a Russian export reg OR a US import (before Obama banned imports of Russian-source firearms) reg? Not much point in marking it in Russian if it's going to the States....
 
Robert Nicholson said:
Why couldn't that "Molot" marking have been done in Russian rather than English? I feel that it detracts from the authenticity of those SKS that are
marked that way (most of my SKS'):HR:
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Because of where they were to end up. English is currently (how long that will last is up for debate) still the international world trade language and it is too costly to mark them in multiple languages.
 
ljones said:
Took a break for the summer. Can't spend all me time on CGN :d
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Does this get to be a problem? I became a member with the idea of just asking a few questions and using the EE but it seems that
I may be spending more time here lately. Could someone please warn me if it looks like I am overindulging?:redface:
 
ljones said:
They are called Molot markings. The exporters in Russia couldn't export "Surplus Firearms" according to Russian law. Thus by marking them like this, it identifies them as "Sporting Rifles" thus working around the export laws.
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^ This. Molot marking.

Thanks for sharing Ijones!
 
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