Pin barrel SKS

[7.62user]

Norinco SKS with pin barrel and spike bayo intact. No numbers on the stock. the rest are number matching. My favorite SKS, Being light and very manuverable. Question, is it millatary or made for US import?

[SVT-40]

All Chinese SKS type 56 carbines were produced in military factories. Some of those guns were later modified by exporters into carbines with different features, such as 16" barrels, different stocks, scope mounts, detachable magazines and so on.

But they were all originally made in a military arsenal. Most will still have the arsenal markings on the left side of the receiver.

Some had those marks scrubbed and will only have a serial number.

The pinned barrel types were the last version produced.

Hope this answers your questions.

If you post some clear pics of the markings on the left side of the receiver, including the serial number we can give you more information about your carbine.

[tonyt22]

SVT-40 nailed it.
I went out and took mine this weekend think I like it more that my ARs lol

[7.62user]

SVT-40 nailed it.
I went out and took mine this weekend think I like it more that my ARs lol

Tony,

Is this your first SKS? They are addicting. You will get more. I also recommend to get a chinise Tokarev. Very accurate and fun to shoot pistol and a good companion for the SKS.

https://rguns.net/product/chinese-tokarev-type-54-cr-7-62x25-pistol/

[7.62user]

All Chinese SKS type 56 carbines were produced in military factories. Some of those guns were later modified by exporters into carbines with different features, such as 16" barrels, different stocks, scope mounts, detachable magazines and so on.

But they were all originally made in a military arsenal. Most will still have the arsenal markings on the left side of the receiver.

Some had those marks scrubbed and will only have a serial number.

The pinned barrel types were the last version produced.

Hope this answers your questions.

If you post some clear pics of the markings on the left side of the receiver, including the serial number we can give you more information about your carbine.

SVT-40,

I like reading your c&r posts and pics. Especially your Mauser collection pics. You have a nice set of skills of taking pictures. My pics are nowhere near your quality. I spend over an hour playing with my phone trying to get some pics. This is the best I come up with.

[bohoki]

they were all made for "export" none were really specifically "made for usa"

just the latest ones with pinned barrels and stamped trigger guards were methods of saving money

just imagine back in 1989 you could get one for $80 now this was from an ffl so they had to make a little bit too and there was the importing costs doing a litlte rough math china was probably getting at most $25 for all that plus every one came with a little plastic green bottle a sling and manual

and the norinco ammo yea that was about $2 from the store they had to make money the distributor took a cut the importer too china was probably lucky if 50 cents a box trickled back but i remember eagle exem having boxcars full of crates of 1440

[tonyt22]

Tony,

Is this your first SKS? They are addicting. You will get more. I also recommend to get a chinise Tokarev. Very accurate and fun to shoot pistol and a good companion for the SKS.

https://rguns.net/product/chinese-to...-62x25-pistol/

Yea just got my c&r but I've always wanted one

[SVT-40]

SVT-40,

I like reading your c&r posts and pics. Especially your Mauser collection pics. You have a nice set of skills of taking pictures. My pics are nowhere near your quality. I spend over an hour playing with my phone trying to get some pics. This is the best I come up with.

Thanks! I too use my cellphone for most pics. The secret is finding a spot inside a window with both diffused light as well as other lighting. I have a nice big window in front of my workbench as well as lights above the bench.

Your sks looks like a nice one!

[7.62user]

Thanks everybody!
I didnt care about that corrosive and steel bullet barrel eating chinese ammo then and dont care now!
I dont mind yugo mild corrosive but bore gentle m67.
That G4 maker is a mistery to me.

[boris badinov]

That serial number pattern -- 4 - 18xxxxx -- is associated with factory /0406\

The 4 indicates that it was manufactured in the month of April. The 18 indicates the 18th year of type56 manufacture, 1973.

The G4 stamped over the /0406\ arsenal stamp is possibly an importer mark.

Here is the /0406\ stamp:

[BrokerB]

Weird..I expected a triangle 26..but a G?

[saki302]

I remember the pinned barreled guns were to be avoided back in the day as the threaded barreled actions were superior.

NOW, they are quite collectible as they're uncommon. As far as I remember, all were commercial guns made for export.

[SVT-40]

I remember the pinned barreled guns were to be avoided back in the day as the threaded barreled actions were superior.

NOW, they are quite collectible as they're uncommon. As far as I remember, all were commercial guns made for export.

Nope. They are actually pretty common. None were made with the intent for commercial sale. The guns which had different features such as shorter barrels, scope mounts and the like were MODIFIED for export to the US commercial market.

All aks carbines are collectable.

[beerman]

My 1st and still one of my favorite Milsurps. I gave my son 2 of them and the only one I have left is a Russian Lammy I bought for $99 back in the day. The best shooting one was my 1st. A $69 factory 26 I bought from Turners in the late 80s.Should not have sold that one.I’ve never liked the AKs after shooting SKSs.Where’s Bobby R at? He’s a believer too.

[boris badinov]

I remember the pinned barreled guns were to be avoided back in the day as the threaded barreled actions were superior.

As far as accuracy and function go, I have seen no evidence of this-- at least as far as the Type56 sks is concerned.

As far as I remember, all were commercial guns made for export.

I second what SVT-40 said.

Special parts were made for commercial variants -- AK mag adaptions, shortened gas systems, sporting stocks, and shortened bayos

But after 30 years of milspec production associated with over 100 known arsenal/factory stamps, the Chinese were sitting on a huge stockpile of leftover, OEM parts.

Although 1984 is the last known year of military production of the type56, the Chinese continued to assemble standard configuration carbines from leftover parts, These guns bear no arsenal stamp, or type56 model designation with the year of assembly indicated in 2-digt form at the beginning of the receiver serial number. These post-military production carbines will very commonly exhibit a mixture of parts specific to different eras of production.