Norinco Sks Type 56 Serial Numbers
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It has a matching 5 digit numerical serial number on the receiver and that is it. No factory code or stamp, no Chinese letters and no other markings except for a very small 3 stamped on both sides of the barrel right before the back sights.
Maybe its a diamond code but I have not seen this anywhere on the net.Umm, then how do you know it is Chicom? The only numbers on the rifle are on the receiver, nothing on the carrier, trigger group, etc? No import marks?Pics would help if you want to know more about it - pull the action out of the stock, and show if the carrier has lightening cuts, milled or stamped trigger group, pinned or threaded barrel, spring loaded or free floating firing pin, etc.
Umm, then how do you know it is Chicom? The only numbers on the rifle are on the receiver, nothing on the carrier, trigger group, etc? No import marks?Pics would help if you want to know more about it - pull the action out of the stock, and show if the carrier has lightening cuts, milled or stamped trigger group, pinned or threaded barrel, spring loaded or free floating firing pin, etc.All good questions and as soon as I clean the snot off the rifle (hoping tomorrow) I'll post pics.BTW to clarify things the serial numbers are matching on the cover, receiver, bolt carrier, bolt, trigger group and stock just nothing else except for and 3 and importers stamp. When I received this rife from Classicfirearms it was covered with great gobs of cosmoline. I mean I lot of it! I needed a portable steam cleaner to get it off.
Norinco Sks Year Manufactured
I paid the up charge so the stock was good and there was about 90% bluing. The finish on the stock was horrible but it was to be expected from a milsurp that saw service. Still, I could not warm up to the idea of doing a check weld with a stock that had a combination of dirt, sweat, oil and cosmoline ground into the wood so I sanded it down but left some of the 'patina' and finished it with amber shellac. The following are the pics of the markings and of the whole rifle finished. It looks like birch to me but it might be catalpa.
What makes you think it's a sino-soviet? I thought factory 26 was the only place they made them at. There are a lot of odd ball marks on this rifle that I can not make any sense of.Rear sight ladder, long shank barrel and barrel markings, lack of factory mark on the receiver maybe. I am not familiar with the proof marks on the barrel, but they do not look quite like the Chicom that I have.The Chicoms were made in factories across China - the arsenal 26 is the most common marking, but there are probably 2 dozen or more arsenal markings on Chinese SKS, none of which seem to appear on your gun, which is probably a good thing in terms of value.
I have been doing a little more reading about Sino-soviet rifles. The number 14 on the receiver and at various locations on the barrel are fitment/assembly stamps which is identical to Russian markings. The Chinese scraped these fitment markings soon after the Soviets left.
The bolt carrier has a milled out slot to lighten the part called a Lightening Cut. Later Chicoms do not. I noticed that the stock is a hardwood and thought it was birch. The sino-soviets used birch. Catalpa wood was used on Chinese rifles. The relief cut just above the right side of the trigger is short in length, like its Russian counterpart.
Later Chinese stocks extended the relief cut along the entire length of the trigger guard. The swivel and serial numbers are on the left side like the Russian guns. Cyrillic Russian letter n on the rear sight.My SKS fits most of the above so it may be a Sino. I have found no markings on the stock other then the serial number on the left side like the Russian rifles but unlike the Russian rifles the swivel is on the edge and the stock is missing an arsenal stamp and for that matter is missing an arsenal/factory stamp anywhere on the rifle. Also, there is no Cyrillic letter in front of the serial number.