What's the earliest and latest dated SKS in your collection?

[avroe]

I've been seeing a ton of russian SKS's these days, but most seem to be 49-55 dated.

I'm just wondering what year production is the earliest everyone has in their collections, as well as the latest dated they have.

I'm curious as to whether anyone has any very late production versions.

Might anyone know what year the last soviet sks's were manufactured?

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[enfield303t]

Apparently the Russians stopped production in 1955 but I remember reading once some may have still been produced 'till 1957. Personally I have never seen on built after 1955. The North Koreans if I remember correctly never started production 'till 1968 and that would be the one to try to find. I think the NK's made them for about 20 years so there might be a 1988 one out there.

I am not sure about when other countries stopped their manufacture.

[avroe]

Apparently the Russians stopped production in 1955 but I remember reading once some may have still been produced 'till 1957. Personally I have never seen on built after 1955. The North Koreans if I remember correctly never started production 'till 1968 and that would be the one to try to find. I think the NK's made them for about 20 years so there might be a 1988 one out there.

I am not sure about when other countries stopped their manufacture.

So the Soviets built them from 45 - 55 for sure, and possibly for 2 more years in 56 and 57 (can anyone else confirm this?)

How hard are the 45, 46 and 47 builds to find these days? Do they tend to pull an insane premium based on the early dates?

[Sarge]

The ruskies made SKSs in 45 for field test & adoption. While adopted as the type 45 - SKS 45 - none were then produced till 1949. As far as I'm aware there are no known 45 dated SKSs to be found unless a few ended up in ruskie museums.
All I've seen have been dated from 1950 - 55.
IF you are finding a lot of 49 dated SKSs I'd like to know where some are at because I'd like to have one with that date.
Sarge

[avroe]

The ruskies made SKSs in 45 for field test & adoption. While adopted as the type 45 - SKS 45 - none were then produced till 1949. As far as I'm aware there are no known 45 dated SKSs to be found unless a few ended up in ruskie museums.

Well then, I can say i've learned something.

Wasn't aware no one had any 45-48 dated SKS's in their collections. Figured many were made during that period.

Might anyone know how many sks's were actually made between 45 and 48 for testing etc?