LUCKY 7's

[carls sks]

just picked up mine from LGS, still in cosmoline. will try pics, but never have any luck. ser #is 12277778, reason for lucky 7s.

[carls sks]

looks like i can do, but only one at a time.   

[Phosphorus32]

Awesome, new SKS time      Congratulations!

[Ghost51xxx]

just picked up mine from LGS, still in cosmoline. will try pics, but never have any luck. ser #is 12277778, reason for lucky 7s.

Congrats Carl. Can't wait to see it when you get her cleaned up. Yours is not too far from mine. 12276708

[astronut]

I like it!   

[Ghost51xxx]

What's your PW Arms serial range?

[Ghost51xxx]

Feels like Christmas in May!

[Ghost51xxx]

Next time I go to Vegas I'm taking you with me, all expenses paid!!!

[carls sks]

What's your PW Arms serial range?

i think in the 7000's, i'll try a pic.

[Phosphorus32]

What's your PW Arms serial range?

i think in the 7000's, i'll try a pic.

I see from your previous picture that the stock matches yet it doesn't have the relief cutout for the inverted takedown lever. Interesting.

[Ghost51xxx]

i think in the 7000's, i'll try a pic.

More 7's? Dude, I'm definitely taking you with me to Vegas!

[Ghost51xxx]

I see from your previous picture that the stock matches yet it doesn't have the relief cutout for the inverted takedown lever. Interesting.

What serial range does the relief usually fall in to? I notice High Noon has a few in the 123xxxxx range

[carls sks]

What's your PW Arms serial range?

i think in the 7000's, i'll try a pic.

I see from your previous picture that the stock matches yet it doesn't have the relief cutout for the inverted takedown lever. Interesting.

the stock is matching(good eyes). no cutout, is that wrong?  i did just take it all apart for cleaning.

[Bacarnal]

Nice, Carl.  I kinda see a take down notch filled with cosmo.  .  Could just be old eyes, though.

[Phosphorus32]

What's your PW Arms serial range?

i think in the 7000's, i'll try a pic.

I see from your previous picture that the stock matches yet it doesn't have the relief cutout for the inverted takedown lever. Interesting.

the stock is matching(good eyes). no cutout, is that wrong?  i did just take it all apart for cleaning.

With the matching stock, the lack of a cutout cannot be wrong. RM is the master of minutiae (meant as a compliment) so he may have a serial number transition point for the implementation of the cutout, or perhaps it was inconsistently used. I'm not sure.

[Bacarnal]

Still looks to me there's a cut ou there, starting at under the "3" in 7.62x39 going left... .

[High Noon]

  Still looks to me there's a cut ou there, starting at under the "3" in 7.62x39 going left... .

It does appear there is a faint line there on the right, but I think it would be much more visible if there was one there.  Mine were easy to see before I cleaned them up. 

[High Noon]

just picked up mine from LGS, still in cosmoline. will try pics, but never have any luck. ser #is 12277778, reason for lucky 7s.

That is a really nice SKS - you got a good one!

[running-man]

Carl, that's a *really* nice looker there.  One of the better I've seen recently for certain!

Yeah that stock has a cutout, hard too see under all the grease!  It's certainly short though. 

Transition from std to inverted takedown lever happened somewhere between S/N 12261016 & 12280777  Hopefully with the new year 12 imports we can narrow that range down a bit. 

[running-man]

  Still looks to me there's a cut ou there, starting at under the "3" in 7.62x39 going left... .

It does appear there is a faint line there on the right, but I think it would be much more visible if there was one there.  Mine were easy to see before I cleaned them up.

You may be right HN.  It's hard to really tell but it may be an optical illusion causing me to think there is a cut there.  Once Carl gets it cleaned up and gets additional detail photos of the takedown lever area *hint hint!* he can put the question permanently to rest.

If it doesn't have the cutout *AND* the stock is the original S/N'd stock matching the gun, perhaps this was a transition phase before the Chinese realized that inverted takedowns + non notched stockes were a bad idea.  The S/N being almost exactly 3k prior to the first inverted takedown I have in my files points to this gun being one of the first inverted takedown guns made.  It certainly is the earliest inverted takedown year 12 gun I've ever seen.