CAN ANYONE I.D. THIS RIFLE

[ESOXER]

The SKS style rifles are one of the toughest rifles ever built. Not accurate past 300 yards but can be thrown in a muddy swamp and keep on firing.
They used to be dirt cheap but haven’t priced one lately.

Yeah not cheap anymore, suprise suprise.
This one was my brother's, my dad bought it @25 years ago for like $80.
https://www.gunbroker.com/All/search?Keywords=Sks&Sort=13

 

[69 Sleeper Bee]

Yeah not cheap anymore, suprise suprise.
This one was my brother's, my dad bought it @25 years ago for like $80.
https://www.gunbroker.com/All/search?Keywords=Sks&Sort=13

Holy crap !
The prices are up.
I bought mine about 5 years ago for $150

 

[sam dupont]

Here mine, Norinco paratrooper View attachment 1259743

Never respected anything Chinese until I shot a buddy's Paratrooper. I think is was Romanian. Clay pigeons with iron sights, bench rest at 300 yards. Never shot another SKS, but that gun was a shooter.

 

[69 Sleeper Bee]

Try this link to see if your rifles year of manufacture can be determined.
http://chinesesks.weebly.com/dating-the-chinese-sks.html
This may not work on ones they made for other countries.

 

[MIKESPOLARA]

Th

Try this link to see if your rifles year of manufacture can be determined.
http://chinesesks.weebly.com/dating-the-chinese-sks.html
This may not work on ones they made for other countries.

Thanks but none of those make sense to me. This one is RB4261-1960 absolutely no Chinese characters any where. I don't know if that 1960 could be so obvious to be 1960?

 

[1 Wild R/T]

http://romaniansks.weebly.com/1960.html.

 

[MIKESPOLARA]

http://romaniansks.weebly.com/1960.html.

Looks like BINGO!
1960 Romanian, does that matter?

 

[69 Sleeper Bee]

http://romaniansks.weebly.com/1960.html.

Yep I would say then it is a Romanian SKS version

 

[1 Wild R/T]

If you give the FBBO crew the right info we can find anything...

 

[MIKESPOLARA]

I'm surprised that these SKS ae so much cheaper then other weapons, at least it appears that way.
Now, it being a Romanian is that better then if it was a Chinese or Russian or just some other copy?

 

[69 Sleeper Bee]

I'm surprised that these SKS ae so much cheaper then other weapons, at least it appears that way.
Now, it being a Romanian is that better then if it was a Chinese or Russian or just some other copy?

Not any better or worse.
These are really good rifles from a durability standpoint. I highly recommend owning one as a dependable backup or a primary if that’s all you have.
They can be mistreated and abused and still shoot well.

 

[71SandbugCharger]

At least one person has stated this before. We need a Firearms forum on B-bodies! I’d be proud to not only show my Mopar accomplishments, but also my collection, and love other’s collections! It can even be in the gold section to keep atf and others from snooping!

 

[1 Wild R/T]

At least one person has stated this before. We need a Firearms forum on B-bodies! I’d be proud to not only show my Mopar accomplishments, but also my collection, and love other’s collections! It can even be in the gold section to keep atf and others from snooping!

You live in California, you don't have a collection.... Repeat after me "It was lost in a boating accident...."

 

[peabodyracin]

Going on memory the Russian made sks stuff was viewed as most desireable. Seems like a handful of other Eastern block countries made them too, then China stuff came in somewhere along the line. Dad was buying Chinese sks for under $100.00 25 yrs or so back. I remember us laughing at the Chinese version having owned Russian ones. Then we shot it. Amazing accuracy for what they felt like comparing to USSR.

My brother bought one from Dad that will go full auto on its own. Fun to shoot if only you can predict when. We were buying 1000 rd cases of ammo for $120 shipped back then too.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

We were buying 1000 rd cases of ammo for $120 shipped back then too.

It's only a little better than tripled....

 

[MIKESPOLARA]

Back in 1988-89 when the Recycler rag was the weekly bible for cars and such. This is when the "assault rifle" craze was going strong, and still legal in Calif. For a few weeks there was a bit of a price war going on for the Chinese AK47's, they were advertised for $99 ea from one store. I was looking at this and said "I should buy a bunch" but didn't. I did buy a new AR15 for $180. Street sweeper 12ga were like $250 with the drum mag.

 

[sam dupont]

In the mid-eighties, a local gun shop had Chinese SKS's still in cosmoline: crates of 3 for $100. That cheapness didn't help to change my low opinion of a gun I had never shot.
I imagine there are untold tons of them buried around the country.
Bush banned them and the price went up to $100 each over night.

 

[MIKESPOLARA]

In the mid-eighties, a local gun shop had Chinese SKS's still in cosmoline: crates of 3 for $100. That cheapness didn't help to change my low opinion of a gun I had never shot.
I imagine there are untold tons of them buried around the country.
Bush banned them and the price went up to $100 each over night.

Now that you mention it, I remember those Chinese weapons coming wrapped up and very messy. What turned me off about the China AK's was the nails in the wooden stocks, I even saw some of the nails bent over.

 

[71SandbugCharger]

At Big Five in California in the ‘80’s they had Russian and Chech rifles (covered in oil), I think anywhere from $70 and up depending on the grade. Problem was you had to take their safety class and registration of some sort. It added another $100 to it!

 

[MIKESPOLARA]

'sort of' resembles Russian SKS
(or a copy sort of) 7.32x39 semiauto rifle
it has a rail added to the back
not exactly sure what it is
holes on the front & the rail on that back look different
where the mag goes in, looks the same

lots of remakes out there

A friends friend who is supposed to be up on this said the Russians were the only ones that used that air tube on top of the barrel, meaning that China didn't use that tube. I guess Romania is pretty close to Russian