What did I buy?

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Well, I was at a gun auction on the weekend and bought an SKS. Still packed in grease. Brought it home and did some looking at what it is I bought.

I "think" I have a brand spanking new SKS that was built in 1957!?! Is this a good find? All numbers match, and according to what I have read, the "millions" place holder is just a "1", which would mean it was manufactured in 1957. It's the Chinese model with a spike bayonet.

Anyone care to tell me what I bought?!?! LOL :D:50cal:
 
I was just reading that... On closer inspection, I believe someone put the spiked bayonet on it, as there are marks where someone used a screw driver up front.

Serial number is only seven digits, so it has to be an older one. I'm suspecting someone "bubbad" it a bit maybe. But why do that on a brand new rifle? Hmmm...
 
The spike bayo is 5" longer than the blade as well, so the stock should have too short a slot for the spike.

The 7 digits really don't mean it's old, unless you have one of the know older factories, like Factory 26.
 
heavyBullet said:
Never saw on oval with 9696 in it before, but I am sure the experts will soon key in.
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since our expert is kinda busy and hasnt replied, i will try my best.:D

Plink said:
oval with 9696 - seven digits in the serial - the 3 characters that I think mean type 56 carbine
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i think its warrant further investigation if knowing what you got means alot to you but im afraid its not a 1957 , i believe a 1957 would only be made in factory 26 and it wouldnt have the 3 chinese characters which was introduced in 1963, not all chinese sks after that date has the 3 characters tho.

some pics would help, take pics of the barrel meeting the receiver, right side of the carrier , and whether the receiver and trigger group are milled.
 
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my $0.02...

I'll have to look it up again to make sure, but I recall reading that a factory number in an oval indicates it was made for civillian/export market (some say for chinese police issue, but I wouldn't buy that last bit.My guess is that the police would use military marked rifles...just spitballing)

I picked one up a couple of months ago with the same factory stamp (ser # starts with 18).

I'll check on this and post again if I find any amazing revelations from the book of Simonov.

Out of curiosity, how much did it set you back? I picked one up in the spring for $200 and GST, and the last one I got a "discount"...rifle and 2 boxes of winchester tailor-mades for $200 and tax (instead of $225,$16.95/box, plus tax). Not bragging by any means...just want to see what these are fetching elsewhere.

Cheers,
 
I paid $150 for it. Not bad I think?? :D

I am not to worried about the history, just wanted to know what I had. If it was one of the OLD ones, I would have kept it in its unfired state. Now, however, I think I'll shoot the crap outta it.. LOL :cool:

I'll get some pics today
 
Pics

Here she is......

Sorry for the picture size.


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Plink said:
I paid $150 for it. Not bad I think?? :D

I am not to worried about the history, just wanted to know what I had. If it was one of the OLD ones, I would have kept it in its unfired state. Now, however, I think I'll shoot the crap outta it.. LOL :cool:

I'll get some pics today
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no doubt, damn good price for the very good condition..

its not one of the old ones. what you got is a sks with a pinned barrel and stamped trigger housing..... now go :ar15: away.

thanks for the pics.
 
looks pretty good and the price is right. (better than alright...these are going for $225 plus tax this week at the shops...$300 this time next year I bet).

Have no fears of this turning into a rare collector item, feed it and burp it (that's what they're for, right? ;) ) I plan on tweaking mine a bit (as much tweaking as you can do on an SKS that is).

If you can get cheap ammo, that'll be icing on the cake!!

Have fun!!
 
Well thanks guys. I had bought it just to shoot the crap out of, but, when I saw how these things were identified, I thought, hmm, maybe I got something better than I thought!!??

Now I know I got exactly what I thought.. a $150 SKS to chuck in the truck.. LOL

OK, now, on to modifications... LOL


Can you get detachable mags to fit this thing???????

:D
 
curtton said:
i think its warrant further investigation if knowing what you got means alot to you but im afraid its not a 1957 , i believe a 1957 would only be made in factory 26 and it wouldnt have the 3 chinese characters which was introduced in 1963, not all chinese sks after that date has the 3 characters tho.
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It's been a while since I collected SKS's back in the day, but a 1957 Chinese SKs would be Factory 26 production, threaded barrel, hard-chromed bayo and have cyrillic serial number prefixes indicating it as a "sino-soviet" model produced under Soviet Engineering supervision using some Soviet parts in regular production.

Also, 9696 being in an "oval" makes it older 9696 production. Early 9696 production was stamped 9696 in a RECTANGLE. It IS a military production SKS, likely refurbed for civilian sales to Canada. It is NOt a commercial production SKS.

Another indicator of it being late production is that the lightening mill cuts are ommitted from the bolt carrier.

Hope that helps.
 
Plink said:
Can you get detachable mags to fit this thing???????

:D
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Avoid the detachable mags! They hella-suck. Also, no bolt holdopen with the duckbills if I recall.

While 9696 is a "second wave" factory (meaning the PLA opened it after the soviets left China, and it used chinese produced copies of the Russian machinery to make the rifles), it IS a military factory and your rifle WAS produced for the PLA. It also MAY not be refurbed as the bolt carrier is not bead blasted, your stock is stained (most commercial stocks are blonde) and the serial number is stamped into it, commercial and refurb stocks are usually not serialized). Some people do consider these collectable - especially guys trying to get one example from every military contract factory.
 
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