Slovenian HonorGuard rifles at AIM

[Jack Flag]

I picked up my two Yugos earlier today. One ceremonial the other a regular 59/66. The regular is very nice. Some handling marks. But it has a nice (to me anyways) deep dark grain in it. Packed all over the place with heavy cosmo. Came with a sling, two oil bottles (with oil still in them), one that came in a leather pouch with a crap ton of blue patina everywhere. Ammo pouch and since I'm not an expert. Something else that resembles the size of a sausage. Overall very nice. "I" prefix. So made in 1976 or so.

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The ceremonial was packed in a good amount of cosmo, but not as bad as the normal 59/66. Overall, I'm very happy with it. Looks rather new. 5 or 6 small gouges or indentations. But nothing too bad. I guess it would have been nice if it was 100% perfect. But it being a "Z". It is nearly 30 years old. So all's good. Honestly, it's all probably handling wear/marks from storage/arsenal. Came with the log book. Same metal sausage and the natural colored sling.

Pics tomorrow.

[Phosphorus32]

Waiting patiently for the pics   

The "metal sausage"  is the cleaning kit that goes in the butt hole uh, I mean the hole in the buttstock.

[Jack Flag]

Waiting patiently for the pics   

The "metal sausage"  is the cleaning kit that goes in the butt hole uh, I mean the hole in the buttstock.

Maybe "metal sausage" will become a common term when talking about SKS's. 

Make's sense. I didn't look very hard at the thing. 

[Loose}{Cannon]

 

[K-9]

I picked up my two Yugos earlier today. One ceremonial the other a regular 59/66. The regular is very nice. Some handling marks. But it has a nice (to me anyways) deep dark grain in it. Packed all over the place with heavy cosmo. Came with a sling, two oil bottles (with oil still in them), one that came in a leather pouch with a crap ton of blue patina everywhere. Ammo pouch and since I'm not an expert. Something else that resembles the size of a sausage. Overall very nice. "I" prefix. So made in 1976 or so.

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The ceremonial was packed in a good amount of cosmo, but not as bad as the normal 59/66. Overall, I'm very happy with it. Looks rather new. 5 or 6 small gouges or indentations. But nothing too bad. I guess it would have been nice if it was 100% perfect. But it being a "Z". It is nearly 30 years old. So all's good. Honestly, it's all probably handling wear/marks from storage/arsenal. Came with the log book. Same metal sausage and the natural colored sling.

Pics tomorrow.

Lucky dog!  A 'Z' seems like a cool serial. 

I think a lot of us picked the right time to buy these Yugos.  SKS aficionados were scrapping over ugly beat up refurbs not long ago on auction sites.

Got my V today.  Looks exactly like everyone else's including the rubber over the sights.

[SKhiSm 59-66A1]

Isn't it Albanian's that come with a metal sausage and a plastic one ? 

I agree, these are good rifles to be buying, very good. 

[bartski]

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The ceremonial was packed in a good amount of cosmo, but not as bad as the normal 59/66. Overall, I'm very happy with it. Looks rather new. 5 or 6 small gouges or indentations. But nothing too bad. I guess it would have been nice if it was 100% perfect. But it being a "Z". It is nearly 30 years old. So all's good. Honestly, it's all probably handling wear/marks from storage/arsenal. Came with the log book. Same metal sausage and the natural colored sling.

Pics tomorrow.

I agree... there were inevitably going to be a few handling marks, but they are very minimal and I'm really happy with mine!

[Cz315]

It's been a while since I necropsied but y'all should feel good about your shiny Slovenians as the one just sold for almost double what AIM charged you...