SKS with different looking wood

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I am in Canada.  Bought it 6 years ago. The wood looks different with my other SKS. Do anyone have similar SKS?

The serial # is X0009. The factory code is 26 (the markings are smaller and lighter than other SKS).

[Greatguns]

First off, welcome to the Files.
Second, is the sling swivel on the left side of the butt stock on that? It appears to be a very late '60 or maybe '61 Chinese Letter series SKS and yes that stock wood is common to many SKSs here in the US for that era.

[Phosphorus32]

Welcome! 

I see a couple of wood patches (circular and oval). The stock was refinished, perhaps after someone in Canada did those repairs, or possibly when the Chinese refurbished it. It does look like the wood on these early Type 56s, as GG mentioned. The "letter series" were made ca. 1959-60 before Soviet assistance had departed China.

[running-man]

Welcome to the boards!  Glad to have you here.  Adding to the great info that GG and P32 have already mentioned, I'll say that you have a pretty rarely seen letter X prefixed carbine. I only have 3 other serial numbers in the database.

Can you post some more detailed photos of the stock and of the other serialized components? (Bolt, bolt carrier, trigger group, magazine, and any parts that might be electric pencilled?  Would go quite a long way towards allowing us to figure out whether that stock is original or a replacement. 

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Thanks everyone for the info. Here are more pictures. My other SKS's wood are new. But looks paint on un-polished wood.

I think all parts are original. The mental parts are in better condition than wood.

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I think the government will ban SKS in Canada soon. I have to turn in my SVT40, which was banned not long ago.

 

[Power Surge]

I think the government will ban SKS in Canada soon. I have to turn in my SVT40, which was banned not long ago.

 

Do you have to turn it in, or can you sell it?

[Phosphorus32]

Thanks everyone for the info. Here are more pictures. My other SKS's wood are new. But looks paint on un-polished wood.

I think all parts are original. The mental parts are in better condition than wood.

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That stock was definitely sanded and refinished with boiled linseed oil or some type of semi-gloss finish. The numbers in the stock are washed out from the sanding. The metal does look good.

Sad to hear about the SVT-38 and SVT-40 rifles being collected for destruction. Canada used to be the envy of US collectors of the Tokarevs due to the relatively low prices, since the refurbished ones (plum bolt carriers, electropenciled numbers, etc.) were still being imported from the former Soviet Union countries (Russia or Ukraine), and Bulgaria too (non-refurbished), if I recall correctly. I think the Finnish imports to the US and Canada were earlier, before the US ban on Russian imports ca. 1994.

Sad to hear that the SKS may be next. Seems likely as gun ownership gets further eroded in Canada.