Sharing pics of my buddies new buy - sino soviet

[gew98]

Saw this for sale. It's an import marked example that came out of Albania. Its a matching 4 digit serial sino soviet type56 that has never been reworked. I almost pulled the trigger on it but I have a dear friend whom was looking for such an oddity so I turned him onto it and he got it for less than a grand.

[echo1]

Nice git. I recently sold off the last 2 of my sellable Chinese rifles, early '57-'61. One was a 7 digit the other was an "A" series 4 digit. That rifle, the original stock was a restamped repo, so I put it in Russian laminate with a Romy sling. PAX

Both guns before the swap


After the Russian furniture

[Phosphorus32]

If the bolt carrier matches the receiver serial number, then that's a 1959-60 era letter gun. Definitely a nice relatively early blade-bayonet-equipped Type 56 for a collection 

The 4 digit serial number (1-2000, no letter) Type 56s are true rarities and I'd be willing to pay around 1K for one of those in original configuration.

[gew98]

You can see in the pics it's a letter series  'E' complete matched non refurbed type 56. As I said I would love to have it , but sometimes you just have to let good friends have some great pieces too. If that had been non import marked , well I would have had to grab it.

[running-man]

Nice that it was all matching. So many of the Sino-Banian letter series had replacement stocks or mismatched recover covers.

[gew98]

No doubt much of the early type 56's got rode hard , put up wet and salvaged.

[gew98]

Shot it yesterday and I had to take it down and remove the thick gummy grease that had about locked the rifle up internally. Xylene and a tooth brush work wonders on getting the grease off the metal parts. Shot pretty good after that. My friend is quite the good guy. After we cleaned and packed up his maxim , MP40 and other pieces he went home. Started cleaning all our stuff and he left that SKS behind.  I called him and told him turn right around , you left your SKS. He lives 2 hours east and wasnt gone but 15 min . He said , you keep it , I got it for you. I feel bad on that , I let him know I'll take care of it until the next shoot , but he really insisted I keep it. I really dont want to take it for nothing. I kinda figure I know why he is doing this as I got diagnosed with stage 4 Renal cancer last october , and he has been a great friend for over 20 years. It really has a beautiful original blue an original finish on the dinged up stock. If anyone wants any particular pics of it let me know.