Yugo 24/47 restoration

[WarPig1976]

They did not make that many first model rifles (I'd have to look up the reference to give you numbers)

I'd like to know, I have one. If you don't mind of course.

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[Jim]

I'd like to know, I have one. If you don't mind of course.

The source is SERBIAN & YUGOSLAV MAUSER RIFLES, by Branko Bogdanovic 2005
He cites two sources that give different sets of numbers.
He counts Zastava Arms Factory, Kragujevac as the primary source; 1950- 53,790... 1951- 91,086... 1952- 94,476
Secondary source Military Archives, Belgrade; 1950- 52,002... 1951- 92,037... 1952- 94,874

Heck. The book is out of print. Here's the original table as Branko gave to me except I edited it to only show M48s. The book divided it and it's a little awkward.
Attachment 75341

Now, you cannot take this table and date your rifles beyond the first 2 years. They were not made sequentially so production numbers will not be reflected in the serial numbers.

By example, the army might have ordered X many, then a batch for the State police, x# for so many schools, another batch for the army and another batch here and a batch there. Sometimes a batch order would have it's own serial numbers sometimes not and if rifles were pulled 'off the shelf' they may have had serial numbers and had them changed.... It was all jumbled up.

I hope this helps. And no, I don't mind.