DB or [0223]. I'll just leave this right here.

[Power Surge]

Here's another double stamped DB/0223...

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=496206024

[Justin Hell]

Boy Chang must have tied one on the night before stamping that...what a train wreck!

Looks like a mix of parts, but it does have that funky rounded cast gas block.  Its a shame about the gas tube and receiver cover, that appears to be one of the better milled ones.

[Power Surge]

Boy Chang must have tied one on the night before stamping that...what a train wreck!

Looks like a mix of parts, but it does have that funky rounded cast gas block.  Its a shame about the gas tube and receiver cover, that appears to be one of the better milled ones.

IMO, that gun there shows a strong case for the receiver being made in 70 and never used (no serial along with it), and then it being but into service in 72.

[Justin Hell]

Boy Chang must have tied one on the night before stamping that...what a train wreck!

Looks like a mix of parts, but it does have that funky rounded cast gas block.  Its a shame about the gas tube and receiver cover, that appears to be one of the better milled ones.

IMO, that gun there shows a strong case for the receiver being made in 70 and never used (no serial along with it), and then it being but into service in 72.

That seems quite plausible...after /26\ switched away from the SKS, I am beginning to suspect that a lot of guns were slapped together with whatever surplus was on hand...anything missing seems to be have made ad hoc by casting less stressed parts. A very strange era for the Chinese SKS for sure.

[Power Surge]

Boy Chang must have tied one on the night before stamping that...what a train wreck!

Looks like a mix of parts, but it does have that funky rounded cast gas block.  Its a shame about the gas tube and receiver cover, that appears to be one of the better milled ones.

IMO, that gun there shows a strong case for the receiver being made in 70 and never used (no serial along with it), and then it being but into service in 72.

That seems quite plausible...after /26\ switched away from the SKS, I am beginning to suspect that a lot of guns were slapped together with whatever surplus was on hand...anything missing seems to be have made ad hoc by casting less stressed parts. A very strange era for the Chinese SKS for sure.

Eh, I don't know about that. Obviously we are seeing some pretty poor guns from the [xxxx] arsenals, but most of the other arsenal guns in the 70s are some of the nicest ones ever built.

[Loose}{Cannon]

Bwahahahahaha.   I dunno about that.   

[Justin Hell]

Boy Chang must have tied one on the night before stamping that...what a train wreck!

Looks like a mix of parts, but it does have that funky rounded cast gas block.  Its a shame about the gas tube and receiver cover, that appears to be one of the better milled ones.

IMO, that gun there shows a strong case for the receiver being made in 70 and never used (no serial along with it), and then it being but into service in 72.

That seems quite plausible...after /26\ switched away from the SKS, I am beginning to suspect that a lot of guns were slapped together with whatever surplus was on hand...anything missing seems to be have made ad hoc by casting less stressed parts. A very strange era for the Chinese SKS for sure.

Eh, I don't know about that. Obviously we are seeing some pretty poor guns from the [xxxx] arsenals, but most of the other arsenal guns in the 70s are some of the nicest ones ever built.

I suppose I should have been more specific to the DB/DP models...they are all over the place with construction and parts used. The late 70's /26\s are superb, and a couple of other later models I have are quite nice too.  It seems to me there was a time where surplus was used before the commercial era designed for export that many assume were surplus slap togethers. These almost seem last ditch.

[running-man]

Bringing this thread back because I have a new data point.  So we had [0223] guns to start this thread. 

Now what about, /0223\?


Like say, this one:



Way old import evidenced by the really early three line Labanu import stamp:


But turn the sucker over and hmm, we see something we saw with the [0223]'s:


Not only that, but bottom stamp code is 9-76-2, and serial nth year of production is 21, which is also '76 per the SKS-Files dating system.  Interesting! 

[Loose}{Cannon]

Same arsenal.