SKS stock question?

[Flying10uk]

Yes, it's a milled/machined receiver and I was told that this example had seen action by the dealer who sold it to me.

[Sentryduty]

I was told that this example had seen action by the dealer who sold it to me.

It's a possiblity, however with the proliferation of arms like this it is nearly impossible to verify unless it was papered sometime in it's life when released from Chinese military service. These guns have literally been all over the world, some went from the PLA straight to civilians and others came from other means.

[browningautorifle]

yooper's site has good information but has so many protections and no with direct link able pages

I got the pic off Google. Then it led me directly to Yooper.

[winston94]

after more research could it be that this sks went to Albania and some one there put a swivel on the bottom?

the reason i say this is cause i have type 56 sks that has Albania stock an it got a swivel just like the one i show in the pic...

hanks,
mike

[browningautorifle]

It could have been done anywhere. People look at these with far too much romance and imagination...it could have been done by the last man to own it in the US...

[Sentryduty]

It could have been done anywhere. People look at these with far too much romance and imagination...it could have been done by the last man to own it in the US...

Precisely bang on, Jane's suggests there are more than 15 million of these guns produced, not counting spare parts and pieces, and many of these guns ended up in places that where not known for record keeping or following any sort of modification standard. To further worsen the verification process these guns have been in civilian circulation for over 40 years, during that time it is anyone's guess the history, repairs, and maintenance. As much as it might strike a chord, trying to play historian with an SKS is much the same as an AK family, we can only tell where a part originated by it's shape or manufacturing variances, how that part came to installed on a gun is pure speculation.

If we somehow had Peter's Albanian (and all other former SKS users) cousin arrive on the forum and expertly verify their guns we would have something to go on. The SKS and other modern rifles come from a time when the transition from hand-fitted craftsmanship to total interchange and mass production was in full swing.

100 years ago, a rifle would be stamped with it's unit and modification history, by the 40's we were down to serialed parts and maker's stamps, in modern times the receiver (and MG barrels) carry's a serial and everything else is just parts. This makes future history detective work problematic.

Although, all this reminds me that I should run my SKS out at the range again, it does shoot quite nicely.

[Flying10uk]

I have a K98 that I was told was from Albania, 1 of a batch of a 1000 or so, that the dealer got from Albania. At one time it has had a sling swivel fitted to the bottom of the butt stock but by the time I got it it had been removed and the holes crudely filled. Perhaps the Albanian armed forces had a policy of fitting bottom mounted sling swivels to all of their rifles post WW2???

[winston94]

well the reason i asked this question cause i think i found what they call 'Ghost' sks... from what i could see in the pictures the guy had there was just 5 digit SN... everything else look ok but what i was worried about was that swivel and if it was installed by some joe blow installing it him self or if it would be the arsenal doing something like that...

mike