Picked up a nice stock off of evilbay. It is a blade style cut (with no spike relief, just blade) bottom sling mount and no serial number stamp. My question is, is it just a factory replacement with no serial stamp? My brain isn't pulling up what model would have come this way? Normal sks mag well.
Im not sure... I guess there is always the possibility some non serial stamped stocks were imported. Have to ask PS is any commercial variants had a standard stock with no serial...
Took some pics this morning. Would love to know the story of the rifle it once held. It looks almost new.
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that is a beauty! looks never used to me. thumb1
The single reinforcement pin near the finger grooves is indicative of Russian styling or early Chinese production. The finish and type of wood looks like Chinese. So is it an early military stock, or is it a later commercial export stock? Looking at my own collection of 5 Chicom SKS's, 4 of them have 2 reinforcement pins at the fore end, and 1 has the single pin. The 4 double pinned stocks have similar wood and finish, and the single pinned stock looks more like the early Russian finish. I have a 1950 Tula with original stamped stock that I swear looks like Chinese wood, just not the sun burst color. My guess is its an early Chinese stock, sat on a shelf, unfinished, in some odd ball factory for years, until late in production. Definitely not /26\ . Thats my guess.
The color and grain look exactly like the unserialed replacement on my 64 spiker. Maybe a run of unused/replacement stocks were made up for around that timeframe...between the blade/ spike transition? It could also be a specific lot of replacements made for either type around the time they were imported...during refurbishment.
Pretty cool to find blade cut one for sure. thumb1
Here is the magazine that came with the stock(blade bayo came with it too) Serial number may point to a time frame.....but who knows.....mag and bayo were in excellent shape as well.
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I would just about guarantee that it's a stock off a KSI imported rifle. K-sports was very well known for changing out old stocks for those new orange finish stocks on their imported models. My KSI imported Soviet-Sino had one, I have seen them on many other wood stock KSI guns, and I happen to have the same exact stock loose, as well.