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SKS Carbines => Unaltered SKS Rifles => Chinese SKS (Commercial) => Topic started by: Stoned_Oli on March 24, 2024, 09:51:47 AM

Title: /416\ M?
Post by: Stoned_Oli on March 24, 2024, 09:51:47 AM

Hi guys! Long time no see... :)

I just saw an odd duck that made me curious... a fella over at the AK Files has an M for sale that has both the SKS-M marking and a /416\ arsenal mark.
I know I've never seen that before, how rare is it?


(https://i.ibb.co/TKqbT7z/20240317-115610.jpg) (https://ibb.co/dbJLcVn)

Title: Re: /416\ M?
Post by: Boris Badinov on March 24, 2024, 10:46:38 AM

Some SKS M from Birklee imports had the /416\ stamp still intact.
See here: http://chinesesks.weebly.com/m.html

I wonder if the arsenal stamp was left intact when it was so far to the forward end of the receiver.

Title: Re: /416\ M?
Post by: running-man on March 25, 2024, 11:06:48 AM

They are odd ducks for certain.  You typically hardly ever see Chinese type 56s with dual markings like that. 

Seems like from Hi/Low S/N's I have in my files, there was a fair run of at least 14000 (that is assuming that rifles in the middle of these two below were also all /416\ marked)

9428959:
(https://i.ibb.co/V9bBLwn/9428595-receiver.jpg)

9442663:
(https://i.ibb.co/ynDrPLC/9442663-receiver.jpg)

By 9454474 this arsenal stamp was gone:
(https://i.ibb.co/ZKdm79S/9454474-import-stamp.jpg)