Wife gave me a SKS for my birthday in 1990

[firstchoice]

I had to do a double take when I saw your SN. You can see why...

Mine: SN 1201039


Yours: SN 1201639


Both have light strikes on the arsenal marks and Chinese ideographs.

Both are from the same importer and all. I think KSI must have brought in a bunch of these as barreled actions and sold them that way. I picked up mine just like this and it looks like yours may have come that way, too. They are interesting variants.





firstchoice

[Direct Connection]

Very nice SkS deploREBEL . I bought my first SkS in 1990 also : ) I remember the day like it was yesterday.. Looks alto like yours.. Congrats : )

[running-man]

So if I add my first 2 digits that would tell me that thedate of my rifle is maybe put out in 1968?

12th year of production = 1967

1956 - 1 + year prefix, or more simply 1955 + year prefix. 

[Power Surge]

That's a great rifle you've got there. I know you've been trying to correspond with me about it.

What you've got is a Keng's PU Sniper model. Almost all of them are usually built on 974 receivers. And almost all of them are made from non-matching parts. And you know what? They are some of the most accurate SKS's I've ever shot.

Looks like yours has the removed bayo. They were offered with and without. I would guess your stock has a filler piece to fill in the bayo groove.

You should have lots of fun shooting it. Just check the adjuster screws on the scope mount now and then.

[Justin Hell]

Fiddlesticks...I had hoped another had shown up finally without a locking lug. Am I still really the only one?

I guess I can be OK with having a weirdo SKS...as I are one too....a weirdo, not an SKS...

That is a pretty rad SKS to get as a gift...I would thank myself if I gifted myself one like it.

[deploREBEL]

Yep, when you are as old as your gun, good excuse to be senile(wierd).
 
If you'r like me, you will get better with age,like fine wine. Now if I can only remember how to....let me see now..