1971 Albanian

[Greasemonkey]

My latest find, a 1971 Albanian. It's a mismatched rifle, but has an oddity. A Russian electro-penciled serial prefix top cover. The bolt is a total mismatch and carrier is as well. No serial number is found on this stock.

[Garand1957]

Are you saying the top cover is electro-penciled "like" a Russian or is a Russian top cover ?

[Greasemonkey]

Possibly, the cover might be off a Russian refurb, the BT suffix can be traced to the Cyrillic alphabet. No other variant SKS I can think has that type of serial.  Finding other countries parts on an SKS is not that uncommon, I also have a Romanian with a Yugoslavian bolt.

[Loose}{Cannon]

After seeing your other pics of the cover.  I'm convinced its an albanian made cover that was serialized to a russian, and then found its way onto your gun. There were plenty of russians in albania during the years and after the albanian sks was made.

[Worm]

If that's the path it took.. that's pretty crazy ending up back on an Albanian. Nice score, that's the first I've seen of that.That sure is a nice lokin Alby, a great partner for your 78'.