Hello fellas, glad to be here. I got my rifle out after I seen the real way to break it down. Hope to get u some pics. It is a scrubbed Oval factory 974. Then to the right it has the 3 millitary emblems and a 7 digit S/N. There are no visible import stamps unless you release the gas tube. Then you can read SKS 7.62x39mm MADE IN CHINA KFS ATL GA. Yes I’m a deplorable in Ga.
Can't wait for the pics....not a very commonly seen arsenal.
I hope you kept the wife too...any wife that gives SKSs for birthday presents sounds like a keeper. Once you can convince them that the new ones are gifts to them you know you have a real princess. :P
hi rebel and welcome. good to have you here. your honey sounds like a keeper. thumb1 ----. does she have a sister? :)
Well Carl, you may NEED a SKS, if you like Georgia peaches . 🍑ftp://
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Sorry to keep you waiting Justin, I’m not use to this type of communicating. Hope I can remember how I did that. Now I get to reassemble it, that’s almost as much fun as firing it. I am eager to hear from you soldiers that was on the wrong end of these and other types of weapons. You deserve all the respect from those of us that didn’t serve.
That is a seriously neat SKS...and I didn't serve. The SKS Army is a play on the KISS Army logo...
Guys...check out that contour on the receiver....reminds me of my DB....
I hate to ask you to take it apart again, but could we see a pic of the entire receiver? I am really curious if this is like one of mine that does not have a locking lug.... (its a square piece jammed through the receiever)
Also...the scope mount is pretty tits too. You should really give the wife a hug.
The DB I have looks similar in construction...but is a pinned barrel, so this is really neat to me. :)
Ok Justin, will send more pics soon.🛃
Quote from: Justin Hell on July 01, 2018, 08:11:42 PM
That is a seriously neat SKS...and I didn't serve. The SKS Army is a play on the KISS Army logo...
Guys...check out that contour on the receiver....reminds me of my DB....
I hate to ask you to take it apart again, but could we see a pic of the entire receiver? I am really curious if this is like one of mine that does not have a locking lug.... (its a square piece jammed through the receiever)
I think you may be right Justin. That keystock piece should be right behind the curve of the receiver that ends at the trigger group retaining lug.
(https://preview.ibb.co/d6oJmd/3_1706972_receiver.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ninpsJ)
(https://image.ibb.co/mB9fzy/1201639_receiver.jpg) (https://ibb.co/hg5ymd)
Quote from: running-man on July 02, 2018, 03:27:55 PM
Quote from: Justin Hell on July 01, 2018, 08:11:42 PM
That is a seriously neat SKS...and I didn't serve. The SKS Army is a play on the KISS Army logo...
Guys...check out that contour on the receiver....reminds me of my DB....
I hate to ask you to take it apart again, but could we see a pic of the entire receiver? I am really curious if this is like one of mine that does not have a locking lug.... (its a square piece jammed through the receiever)
I think you may be right Justin. That keystock piece should be right behind the curve of the receiver that ends at the trigger group retaining lug.
(https://preview.ibb.co/d6oJmd/3_1706972_receiver.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ninpsJ)
(https://image.ibb.co/mB9fzy/1201639_receiver.jpg) (https://ibb.co/hg5ymd)
Quote from: running-man on July 02, 2018, 03:27:55 PM
Quote from: Justin Hell on July 01, 2018, 08:11:42 PM
That is a seriously neat SKS...and I didn't serve. The SKS Army is a play on the KISS Army logo...
Guys...check out that contour on the receiver....reminds me of my DB....
I hate to ask you to take it apart again, but could we see a pic of the entire receiver? I am really curious if this is like one of mine that does not have a locking lug.... (its a square piece jammed through the receiever)
I think you may be right Justin. That keystock piece should be right behind the curve of the receiver that ends at the trigger group retaining lug.
(https://preview.ibb.co/d6oJmd/3_1706972_receiver.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ninpsJ)
(https://image.ibb.co/mB9fzy/1201639_receiver.jpg) (https://ibb.co/hg5ymd)
Having problem remembering how I posted the first pics, I know, I’ll go to college!
I have taken the receiver photos but don’t remember how I uploaded them
Read: https://clone.sks-files.com/index.php?topic=87.msg41763#msg41763
Basically hit the "Upload image to post" link just under the textbox where you type your post and follow the instructions.
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I am still learning, I was posting sentences but my I phone would not always post photos. Now I would like to know what yaw mean by the initias DB?
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Quote from: deploREBEL on July 03, 2018, 01:42:21 PM
I am still learning, I was posting sentences but my I phone would not always post photos. Now I would like to know what yaw mean by the initias DB?
DB is a marking commonly found on certain type 56s. The meaning of the letters is unclear, but it appears that the guns themselves were sometimes slightly different than the typical type 56 produced at a triangle arsenal such as /26\.
(https://preview.ibb.co/moRxgd/018469_receiver.jpg) (https://ibb.co/g3wKuy)
Justin's DB stamped gun he mentioned has no bolt locking lug key pressed in it. Your photos show that yours does, though t appears the surface of the key took the bluing much better than is typically seen. thumb1
WOW,so that is a Sino Solviet or Chicom? Granddad of a gun!
Just a standard Chinese type 56 made at different factory than your typical triangle arsenaled gun. The S/N doesn't follow any known dating pattern unfortunately.
'Sino-Soviet' is an obsolete term as it doesn't really mean much these days with our improved knowledge of the SKS timeline.
So if I add my first 2 digits that would tell me that thedate of my rifle is maybe put out in 1968?
I had to do a double take when I saw your SN. You can see why...
Mine: SN 1201039
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Yours: SN 1201639
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Both have light strikes on the arsenal marks and Chinese ideographs.
Both are from the same importer and all. I think KSI must have brought in a bunch of these as barreled actions and sold them that way. I picked up mine just like this and it looks like yours may have come that way, too. They are interesting variants.
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Very nice SkS deploREBEL . I bought my first SkS in 1990 also : ) I remember the day like it was yesterday.. Looks alto like yours.. Congrats : )
Quote from: deploREBEL on July 03, 2018, 08:38:53 PM
So if I add my first 2 digits that would tell me that thedate of my rifle is maybe put out in 1968?
12th year of production = 1967
1956 - 1 + year prefix, or more simply 1955 + year prefix. thumb1
That's a great rifle you've got there. I know you've been trying to correspond with me about it.
What you've got is a Keng's PU Sniper model. Almost all of them are usually built on 974 receivers. And almost all of them are made from non-matching parts. And you know what? They are some of the most accurate SKS's I've ever shot.
Looks like yours has the removed bayo. They were offered with and without. I would guess your stock has a filler piece to fill in the bayo groove.
You should have lots of fun shooting it. Just check the adjuster screws on the scope mount now and then.
Fiddlesticks...I had hoped another had shown up finally without a locking lug. Am I still really the only one?
I guess I can be OK with having a weirdo SKS...as I are one too....a weirdo, not an SKS...
That is a pretty rad SKS to get as a gift...I would thank myself if I gifted myself one like it.
Yep, when you are as old as your gun, good excuse to be senile(wierd).
If you'r like me, you will get better with age,like fine wine. Now if I can only remember how to....let me see now..??? ::)