Chinese SKS Type 56 ?

[winston94]

i picked this SKS up... has 5 digist SN no other markings... all matching including stock...

what is it? what is the stock made out of?

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thanks allot for any info...


Mike

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[Flying10uk]

Are you able to provide some more and better/closer pictures, please?

[winston94]

here you go.. i will try to take apart an clean an take better pics...


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[Sentryduty]

This is the same rifle from this thread a presume?

https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=58392&page=1

[winston94]

yes...i ended up purchasing it off of GB... i think it what they call a ghost gun... but whats interesting is that stock... it matches the rifle but seems to be Albanian maybe...

[Sentryduty]

ghost gun

That's a new one to me, sounds like a way to upscale an early Jianshe Arsenal SKS 56-Carbine for sale. If it's a five digit serial that should be a 1956 dated rifle, According to yooper's page an Albanian rifle should have a dash (123456-XX) year of production suffix, and the Albanian forestock is a fair bit longer than any of the others.

[winston94]

yeah... thats what throwing me... that stock... it dont seem to fit the rifle like the other i have ... very cool rifle anyway...

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ill strip it an take better pics this weekend..

[Sentryduty]

it dont seem to fit the rifle like the other i have

How so? From the photos at least, it seems to fit adequately from where I am sitting. Anything in particular out of place?

[browningautorifle]

Is the stock a birch? If you had the laquer off it might be easier to see. Are you stripping it?

[Sentryduty]

Look at that, there is a pot belly in that stock, Yooper speaks of those, and it wasn't obvious for the initial photos, I think we are seeing a pretty much properly matching early Sino-Soviet produced SKS.

"The pot belly stocks of these early lettered Sino's were also unique. They had the same finish color of the Russian Artic Birch stocks. They had a side sling swivel with the serial number and inspector cartouche to the rear of the swivel. There was a star stamp on the right rear off the butt stock. The finish on these guns rivaled that of the Russian made SKS's. Many of these guns were imported by CJA in Southfield, Michigan. The only purpose of this page is to help make the collector aware that differences do occur and about anything could be possible. These are ALL from my personal observations and not from any books. Photos courtesy of MANY."