« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: J Block M59/66 SKS  (Read 5296 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Online Phosphorus32

  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (+13)
  • Sniper
  • *
  • Posts: 6820
  • Send lawyers guns and money...uh, skip the lawyers
J Block M59/66 SKS
« on: July 03, 2015, 11:05:35 PM »
I went on an overnight trip to Spokane to see the Gregg Allman Band on Monday night with my wife, who bought me tickets for Father's Day.  What goes better with southern blues rock than guns :)  My wife patiently followed me around to the pawn and gun shops in the Spokane area on Tuesday (yeah, she's that good to me) and I found this matching Yugoslavian SKS still in Cosmoline at a price I couldn't pass up.  One of the few flaws, the stock appears to be either double-struck, or overstruck (I think the latter), with the current SN...also it has a few dings.  The bore is great and the bluing is excellent.  This SKS is plastered with SNs and part/drawing numbers.  You'd think it had been made at Mauser Oberndorf rather than Zastava  :)) I thought the conventional wisdom was that Yugoslavian SKSs didn't have chrome-lined bores but this bore is sharp and dazzlingly bright, suggestive of chrome.  The gas piston is chromed except for the tip at the operating rod end.

Many of the pictures have a blue cast since I took most of them in the last hour before sunset.  Been in the 100's here lately with scorching blue sunny skies, so that was the best I could do for lower intensity natural light in the absence of a cloudy day.




























Logged

Offline Greatguns

  • SKS-FILES CONTRIBUTOR
  • Trade Count: (+22)
  • Sniper
  • *
  • Posts: 3279
  • Inventor of the Intrafuse folding adapter.
Re: J Block M59/66 SKS
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2015, 11:47:16 PM »
Now that there is some nice looking wood.
Logged
My Avatar is a pic of the real "Ghost" SKS in honor of xxxsks(joe). It is a pic of a fully decked out SKS in Capco hunter's kit. This was mine, the only other pic I had ever seen of one was Joe's.

Offline Loose}{Cannon

  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (+16)
  • Sniper
  • *
  • Posts: I am a geek!!
  • Constitutional Extremist
Re: J Block M59/66 SKS
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2015, 11:47:59 PM »
Holy Yugo picporn overload Phos!    Is this your first yugo? 

Great rifle man..  Love the stock!
Logged
      
1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms... It doesn't matter how many Lenins you get out on the street begging for them to be taken.

Online Phosphorus32

  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (+13)
  • Sniper
  • *
  • Posts: 6820
  • Send lawyers guns and money...uh, skip the lawyers
Re: J Block M59/66 SKS
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2015, 12:12:28 AM »
Thanks GG and LC!

Quote from: Loose}{Cannon on July 03, 2015, 11:47:59 PM
Holy Yugo picporn overload Phos!    Is this your first yugo? 
rofl
It's my second but my other one has seen a couple thousand more rounds of corrosive ammo than this one.  Not many part numbers that haven't been rubbed off on that R block example.
Logged

Offline Loose}{Cannon

  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (+16)
  • Sniper
  • *
  • Posts: I am a geek!!
  • Constitutional Extremist
Re: J Block M59/66 SKS
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2015, 12:39:49 AM »
Receiver serial looks like a 'hand done by 8th grader' on this one eh?
Logged
      
1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms... It doesn't matter how many Lenins you get out on the street begging for them to be taken.

Online Phosphorus32

  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (+13)
  • Sniper
  • *
  • Posts: 6820
  • Send lawyers guns and money...uh, skip the lawyers
Re: J Block M59/66 SKS
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2015, 02:26:23 AM »
Quote from: Loose}{Cannon on July 04, 2015, 12:39:49 AM
Receiver serial looks like a 'hand done by 8th grader' on this one eh?
Yeah, that engraver had too much to drink...or not enough  :))
Logged

Offline Dannyboy53

  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Sniper
  • *
  • Posts: 2208
Re: J Block M59/66 SKS
« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2015, 07:06:04 AM »
What a beauty  drool2  that is really nice Phosphorus!  clap1
Logged

Offline running-man

  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (+5)
  • Sniper
  • *
  • Posts: 6876
  • The only way to avoid Mosin #2 is avoid Mosin #1!
Re: J Block M59/66 SKS
« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2015, 02:08:23 PM »
Nice score Jon!  thumb1. You've got a good wife there, hang on to her!!

I'd bet that the stock is reused off a previous gun, I read 178,?17.

M59s were built non-chromed as far as I've ever read. Later 59/66s are hit or miss as I've seen chromed examples myself. Whether it's a refurb only thing, I don't know, but it's certainly plausible that the changeover happened later in production. What do the AK guys say with respect to their chromed barrels?
Logged
      

Online Phosphorus32

  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (+13)
  • Sniper
  • *
  • Posts: 6820
  • Send lawyers guns and money...uh, skip the lawyers
Re: J Block M59/66 SKS
« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2015, 03:44:12 PM »
Thanks Joe and Danny!

I'm with you on the re-stamped stock number. I don't have pictures of the barrel and receiver markings with me (on the OR coast escaping the heat). I'll have to break it down again for a closer look later for any indications that it was re-barreled. The bolt face shows that it was certainly fired quite a few times before it was cleaned and immersed in Cosmoline. Of course my Chinese T56s often have some bolt face wear but still have beautiful bores. That chrome is good hard stuff  :))  thumb1
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »