This showed up in my Instagram feed

[Boris Badinov]

...from a hashtag I follow:





The crate once as "106" painted on the outside, but story is that they are 1962 dated guns.

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[Loose}{Cannon]

106 is the crate number for inventory purposes. Go check those /26\ guns out

[Phosphorus32]

Those have been sitting around for a few years...CJA Detroit?! 

[MxwllBkr]

Come on Boris break out the Credit Card and Ramen!

[Phosphorus32]

I gave them a call. They have 7 million and letter guns.

They sure look sharp based on the few low res photos!

[Boris Badinov]

I gave them a call. They have 7 million and letter guns.

They sure look sharp based on the few low res photos!

Thanks, for calling. I was gonna message them on line to ask the same thing.

Could they be N.I.B.?

[running-man]

Thanks, for calling. I was gonna message them on line to ask the same thing.

Could they be N.I.B.?

They are 'furbs (or at least the one standing up is)  Mismatching handguard and the rear sling swivel is in the wrong place for both 7 mil /26\ and letter guns.  Nice enough shooters though. 

[mrhunt14]

I rolled the dice and bought the earliest one the shop owner had which was a 34k serial number. I spoke with him on the phone for a good amount of time about the story behind them and what rifles he had. Long story short, he bought them off someone who purchased a crate of sks's back in 1987-1988. The original owner paid $69 per rifle.

I received a refurbished 34k serial Chinese sks. The stock, bolt, gas tube, piston and rear sight were not numbered. The parts all had the same font. The entire rifle was caked in cosmo and I am leaving it as such. The rifle reminds me of a commercially made sks. It looks like it was a very late refurbishment intended for commercial export. The bolt and carrier have that "brushed" chrome finish, unlike the early polished chrome finish. The rear sight is the early "n" marked one. The rifle came with a sling, green star oiler, and cleaning kit in the buttstock. The owner has more available, 7 mil's latin prefix and a 200k one.

[running-man]

Nice!  How interesting that what's in that crate from the 80's pretty closely matches (ghost, six digit /26\, letter, and 7 mil) what has been imported from Albania in the 2010's.

Makes you wonder how many more gems are out there waiting for their owners to finally unload them after untold years squirreled away and them coursing through the market again!

[Phosphorus32]

I rolled the dice and bought the earliest one the shop owner had which was a 34k serial number. I spoke with him on the phone for a good amount of time about the story behind them and what rifles he had. Long story short, he bought them off someone who purchased a crate of sks's back in 1987-1988. The original owner paid $69 per rifle.

I received a refurbished 34k serial Chinese sks. The stock, bolt, gas tube, piston and rear sight were not numbered. The parts all had the same font. The entire rifle was caked in cosmo and I am leaving it as such. The rifle reminds me of a commercially made sks. It looks like it was a very late refurbishment intended for commercial export. The bolt and carrier have that "brushed" chrome finish, unlike the early polished chrome finish. The rear sight is the early "n" marked one. The rifle came with a sling, green star oiler, and cleaning kit in the buttstock. The owner has more available, 7 mil's latin prefix and a 200k one.

Sounds like an interesting SKS. Hope you start a post and load up some pictures. I've never seen an SKS with a non-serialized bolt, peculiar.