got an sks with no factory code serial number is all matching with five digits starting at 40
Quote from: sksarego on May 08, 2021, 10:06:42 AM
got an sks with no factory code serial number is all matching with five digits starting at 40
Based on your limited description and no pictures, 40xxx with no /26\ but with all matching stock and metal component numbers is a “ghost”. If so, it’s a 1956 Jianshe (26, before they started using 26 in April 1957) with a blade bayonet, long lug barrel, bottom rear sling swivel, milled trigger group frame, lightening cuts in the bolt carrier and bayonet lug, v-notched foreend ferrule, etc.
Ok,,I get a closer look here in a bit..thank you. .send some pics later
Has all the ingredients you mentioned although I noticed russain inspection stamps on barrel lug so far
Quote from: sksarego on May 08, 2021, 02:10:29 PM
Has all the ingredients you mentioned although I noticed russain inspection stamps on barrel lug so far
They conformed to the Russian-style, especially in the first year of production, like yours.
https://i.ibb.co/sCmTjTg/20210508-204420.jpg
Looks like a nice Type 56 thumb1
https://i.ibb.co/Bqdnf9X/20210508-203957.jpg
Definitely a ghost gun. Who’s the importer? Looks like a recent import Sino-Banian to me. thumb1 thumb1
i.o inc. north carolina..inter ord. i guess? diamond with a 6 in it and a crescent mark too on around lug ,seems i seen that on russian i got
That’s the first IO stamp from Monroe, NC from imports that came in ~1Q 2013.
The second stamp they used was after they moved their operations to Palm Bay, FL in 3Q 2013.
Looks like a keeper for certain.
(https://i.ibb.co/pvL48pd/FE75-E425-5-F41-43-C7-A7-A9-9-E4230-CC643-D.jpg) (https://ibb.co/1fmR5xT)
yes ,thanks thumb1