1949 SKS stamped stocks

[jaroslav]

Were stocks on 1949 SKS stamped? I'm asking, because the stocks I've seen on 1949 SKS didn't look right. Either the s/n number was too far bellow the year, crocked, or date missing etc.

[Boris Badinov]

Original 49 stocks were date stamped.

As I understand it, from all I have seen, if the date on a replacement stock did not match n rifle it ended up with during refurbishment, the mismatched date was left intact and only serials were overstruck (xxxxx or /////) and then force matched.

The red flags to watch out for are a 1949 date stamped on a hardwood stock cut for a blade bayonet, or a date 1949 stamped on a laminate stock.

[running-man]

Are you speaking of specific 1949 stamped examples in Canada Jaroslav? 

[jaroslav]

Are you speaking of specific 1949 stamped examples in Canada Jaroslav?

For about 3 years, I used to watch 1949s on WestRifle site. They would post pictures of the receiver, cover, mag, trigger group,carrier, bayo, stock and the two sides of the rifle. And there were a lot of 1949s posted.You could see if they were BBQ, if the stocks were refurb, could see forced stamped stocks and some stocks looked originally stamped. But they did not look right. If you look at 1951 non refurb stock, you see sharp star, straight stamped date and certain distance bellow the date a straight stamped s/n. Nothing like that I've seen on 1949s stocks.

I forgot to mention. I think that I had read somewhere mention that 1949 stocks were not stamped.

[Boris Badinov]

I've got nothing on the the oddly placed serials on 1949 guns. But odd serial placement is seen often enough on seemingly original carbines from later years.


Unique to the original 1949 carbines is the bayonet cut for a cruciform spike instead of a blade. That's probably where I would look first if something seemed a little off.