Writing on SKS barrel????

[quinnbrian]

Just took this SKS on trade, the top cover said it's a 1952, but the gas block is the newer type, the trigger group is the newer type too. But I guess that could have been changed in a refurb, but the interesting part is the writing on the barrel, never seen anything like it before.
The serial numbers match on all the parts, and no ###x 's.
Any ideas....

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Cheers
Brian

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Some kind of import markings? UN compliance?

 

[Hitzy]

Yeah normal import markings....found on the recent Mosin's as well.

 

[Blastattack]

Yeah normal import markings....found on the recent Mosin's as well.

Not import markings. They are export markings. Due to various international arms treaties it is not legal and/or extremely difficult to export surplus military firearms from Russia. However the "manufacturer" of these rifles remarked the rifles with the above markings and they are now considered to be "newly manufactured sporting rifles" and not military surplus, and thus readily exportable. Nice little way to get around pointless legislation.

 

[dand883]

Wasn't 1952 one of the transitional years where they went from the older style gas blocks to newer style? It could be that it was a late 1952, or possibly that the gas block and trigger group may have been replaced during refurb, but nothing else got stamped?

 

[bp2626]

Not import markings. They are export markings. Due to various international arms treaties it is not legal and/or extremely difficult to export surplus military firearms from Russia. However the "manufacturer" of these rifles remarked the rifles with the above markings and they are now considered to be "newly manufactured sporting rifles" and not military surplus, and thus readily exportable. Nice little way to get around pointless legislation.

This. Molot exported them.

 

[st1264]

I have the same markings on my SKS I just bought. Have never seen those with the last couple I've had.

 

[Nomurica]

Thanks for clarifying! I was baffled as to why something made in Russia would say so in English lol

 

[Ironers]

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[quinnbrian]

Thanks for all the replies. I was thinking I'd got a "commercially made" AKA Norico, made in Russia SKS.....complete with the black spray job, hand#*b etc.
Cheers
Brian

 

[TheWhole9Yards]

Did you get it epps?

 

[ljones]

Thanks for all the replies. I was thinking I'd got a "commercially made" AKA Norico, made in Russia SKS.....complete with the black spray job, hand#*b etc.
Cheers
Brian

The black paint also known by us as "BBQ" finish was a finish used by the Russians on some of the SKS's when they were refurbed. That is not unusual. It has only been the recent imports that these marks on the SKS's have been showing up. They had shown up before on the Mosin's. Not unusual for it to be in English if the firearms marked are being sent to Canada by the Exporter... in this case Molot. Russia has laws about selling military surplus rifles. Thus these markings "Mark" or "Designate" them as sporting or hunting rifles, thus getting around the laws as well as avoiding the United Nations restrictions on surplus firearms trade. Don't know all the details, am not an expert in these matters, but that is it in a nut shell.