SKS with blued bayonet?

I'm thinking it could be a post 1952 gun with a replacement bolt/carrier assembly. Which is odd. Very odd, indeed.

How many tabs are on the gas system release lever on the right side of the rear sight block? One or two tabs?
 
bobdbldr said:
The Spring looks like one from the aft part of the gas push rod! Not sure if they are similar to the early firing pin spring!
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Instead of one coiled pieced of metal, this is a double-wound and coiled. Two weaker pieces of metal wound together to make one stronger spring IIRC. I have a 1950 gun with the spring loaded firing pin. But I don't recall it having a double wound spring like this one.
 
I will try to find some time tonight or tomorrow for pics. Im thinking I might have just figured it out though. Just found that the barrel doesnt match. And it says 1954r on the cover. Im assuming the r stands for refurbished and it was done in '54 to a rifle made in the early 50's. Assuming a new ('54) barrelwas installed on an older receiver thats the only way i can see this being possible. Sorry if leaving the "r" out f the date is an obvious explanation.

I feel kind of silly now ha.
 
C.308 said:
And it says 1954r on the cover. Im assuming the r stands for refurbished and it was done in '54 to a rifle made in the early 50's.
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First of all it's not "r". It's a Cyrilic (Russian) letter "g" (Г) which in Russian means "god" or "year" in English. So what you have on the cover in English is" 1954 year". The cover was manufactured in the year 1954. That's all. When exactly the SKS was refurbished, it's difficult to say. However, you may find a marking of the Russian (Soviet) arsenal where your SKS was refurbished.
 
Boris Badinov said:
Instead of one coiled pieced of metal, this is a double-wound and coiled. Two weaker pieces of metal wound together to make one stronger spring IIRC. I have a 1950 gun with the spring loaded firing pin. But I don't recall it having a double wound spring like this one.
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Yes, but the smaller push rod on the gas piston system has one similar, I wonder if the previous owner put it on the firing pin by mistake!
 
bobdbldr said:
Yes, but the smaller push rod on the gas piston system has one similar, I wonder if the previous owner put it on the firing pin by mistake!
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The Firing pin spring and the piston extension spring (push rod spring) are different sizes. The extension spring would be too big for the firing pin and channel. And the firing pin spring would be too small to fit the piston extension.
 
C.308 said:
I will try to find some time tonight or tomorrow for pics. Im thinking I might have just figured it out though. Just found that the barrel doesnt match. And it says 1954r on the cover. Im assuming the r stands for refurbished and it was done in '54 to a rifle made in the early 50's. Assuming a new ('54) barrelwas installed on an older receiver thats the only way i can see this being possible. Sorry if leaving the "r" out f the date is an obvious explanation.

I feel kind of silly now ha.
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SKS barrels are not serial stamped.

If you are referring to the four digit number on the barrel shank that is stamped perpendicular to the barrel axis...that is not a serial number.

I have yet to see a refurbed Soviet sks with a barrel and receiver that weren't an original matched assembly.

Beneath the wood on the left side of the barrel and receiver, near where the barrel and receiver join, there will be a matching set of numbers. Usually a two digit number but sometimes it's just one number. In between these two matching numbers is the barrel alignment hash mark.

This matching pair of numbers indicates an original barreled receiver pair.
 
The following link is an extremely useful resource for the Soviet SKS. The contents are also posted here on this site. However the photos on gunnutz are all dead photobucket links.

At the link below, the photos are all still available to view and compare:

https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=17575

It covers the various stages of development and transition in the design and function of the SKS45.
KEEP IN MIND:
There are a one or two uncorroboted claims, and a few typos that lead to some date inconsistencies, but overall, the link is very, very useful.
 
I had a better look at mine and compared it to others. So I said before my gas port was curved. Well it has a curved face but i see now that is not what was meant by "curved gas port". I now see the difference with the later gas ports. Mine is in fact a 45° gas port. My mistake. So now everything about mine now suggests its early 50's but with a matching receiver cover that is dated 1954r. Maybe it was refurbished in '54 and they re-stamped it with the new date? Anyway, no big deal. Im not that concerned either way. Just thought it was a bit odd. I have lots to learn about these rifles it seems.
 
C.308 said:
I had a better look at mine and compared it to others. So I said before my gas port was curved. Well it has a curved face but i see now that is not what was meant by "curved gas port". I now see the difference with the later gas ports. Mine is in fact a 45° gas port. My mistake. So now everything about mine now suggests its early 50's but with a matching receiver cover that is dated 1954r. Maybe it was refurbished in '54 and they re-stamped it with the new date? Anyway, no big deal. Im not that concerned either way. Just thought it was a bit odd. I have lots to learn about these rifles it seems.
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Does the serial # on the back side of the cover match the serial # on the side of the receiver?
 
My cover is unmarked with matching serial #'s with rest of gun and a star stamped on the left side of the receiver.
 
This is a really mystery. The gas block indicates an early gun but the star on the receiver indicates a much later gun. I’d be interested in seeing some pics... although it sounds like a real mix mash of parts.
 
mbogo3 said:
My cover is unmarked with matching serial #'s with rest of gun and a star stamped on the left side of the receiver.
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A cover on my Russian SKS is also unmarked and there is NO star stamped anywhere. On top of it, it has NO refurbish mark of any kind! Strangely, a number "1" is stamped on the barrel in a couple of places. My laminate SKS is so called a "letter series" SKS with a letter "И" (English "I") that indicates the manufacturing year of 1957. It has a distinctly yellowish bayonet (see pic). All matching.

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My receiver cover is marked with a number on the rear that matches the rest of the rifle. Receiver, stock, magazine etc. I noiced some discolouration on the cover in the pic above. Mine looks similar except it has a star, and the 1954r mark.
 
C.308 said:
My receiver cover is marked with a number on the rear that matches the rest of the rifle. Receiver, stock, magazine etc. I noiced some discolouration on the cover in the pic above. Mine looks similar except it has a star, and the 1954r mark.
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Need pics, I haven't seen a cover without a serial # unless it was an aftermarket cover!
 
C.308 said:
My receiver cover is marked with a number on the rear that matches the rest of the rifle. Receiver, stock, magazine etc. I noiced some discolouration on the cover in the pic above. Mine looks similar except it has a star, and the 1954r mark.
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The discolouration on the receiver cover is right. It means the blueing on the cover is original.
 
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