Price check - Mint Chinese SKS

Wheelbrain · May 8, 2015

What's the valuation for the SKS pictured in the link below? All-matching, discrete import mark, and the serial number is in the 2.3 million range.

Any chance of the valuation increasing, or have SKS prices hit their ceiling?

http://imgur.com/a/Z4lXk

smokedog · May 8, 2015

Nice rifle are you buying or selling? :innocent0

Around $375.00 seems a fair deal. Sks's seem to go up and down but would guess in a few years they will be up to stay.

iH8DemLibz · May 8, 2015

That looks like a commercial piece.

Check to see if it has a pressed in or screwed in barrel.

Wheelbrain · May 8, 2015

smokedog said:
Nice rifle are you buying or selling?

Selling. If anyone is interested, let me know.

However, be advised that I am no longer a Maryland resident. I don't think this qualifies as C&R, so we'll have to meet at an FFL of your choice.

Bafflingbs · May 8, 2015

I'm pretty sure it is C&R. Nice Rifle!

http://www.yooperj.com/SKS-24.htm
Yep, it's a 1958. So definitely C&R.

iH8DemLibz · May 8, 2015

Not all SKS rifles are C&R.

Especially commercial ones with spike bayonets. Impossible to date and they were never military rifles.

The older ones with blade bayonets are GTG as C&R because they were made in the late 50s to early 60s.

CasualObserver · May 8, 2015

Bafflingbs said:
I'm pretty sure it is C&R. Nice Rifle!

I wouldn't be confident in saying that. Looks a lot like one of the many commercial imports in the early 90s to me... though I'm far from a SKS expert.

Bafflingbs · May 8, 2015

2,300,000+ serial number, right? I could be wrong.

CasualObserver · May 8, 2015

Bafflingbs said:
I'm pretty sure it is C&R. Nice Rifle!

http://www.yooperj.com/SKS-24.htm
Yep, it's a 1958. So definitely C&R.

I see you added a reference... thanks for adding that. I'll have to bookmark that.

Bafflingbs · May 8, 2015

I stand corrected. This may indeed be a later model.

wbw2123 · May 8, 2015

Bafflingbs said:
I'm pretty sure it is C&R. Nice Rifle!

http://www.yooperj.com/SKS-24.htm
Yep, it's a 1958. So definitely C&R.

This rifle does not carry the jianashe arsenal triangle 26 mark so that dating scheme does not apply. Better indicators are the spike bayonet and stamped parts.

Eta posted while I was typing. Didn't mean to rub it in

Bafflingbs · May 8, 2015

Yeah, I saw that.
Sorry :whack:

Wheelbrain · May 9, 2015

Posted to Classifieds.

Machodoc · May 9, 2015

I won't repeat all the related messages, but as has been noted, the dating system only works for (triangle 26) Jianshe rifles. This is what I refer to as one of the "Third Front" rifles, meaning that it was made in a smaller arsenal after the Chinese figured too much of their military/industrial production was centered in a few manufacturing plants on the coast, so they diversified inland. The spike bayonet is a clue that it is a later manufacture.

While these are generally called, "Norinco" rifles, that would sort of be like us calling every gun imported by CAI a "Century" gun. Norinco (China North Industries) was a shadow company set up to export surplus and commercially-made arms made by a number of different arsenals.

toolness1 · May 9, 2015

I have one of these commercial Chinese SKSs, exact color stock and everything. Bought it from a guy at my work last year for $225. He had it in a poly stock but I un-bubbad it.

It shoots great, runs great. Besides not having as much collector value, they are still sweet.

Abulg1972 · May 11, 2015

Bafflingbs said:
I'm pretty sure it is C&R. Nice Rifle!

http://www.yooperj.com/SKS-24.htm
Yep, it's a 1958. So definitely C&R.

Not so sure about that. I believe that an SKS built in 1958 would not have the three characters between the Factory mark and the S/N.

"Note location of serial number in regards to the factory stamping /26\. In 1963 the Chinese added the 3 characters which translated to Type 56. The positions are different than the early models. The one pictured on the left is from 1964 and on the right is from 1980. 1980 was the last year production from arsenal 26."

"The above pictured rifles are still a military contract as evidenced by the 3 Chinese characters between the arsenal stamp and s/n. Both these rifles exhibit late production techniques including stamped trigger guards, pinned barrels and spike bayonets to mention a few. If the above mentioned dating scheme of the factory 26 rifles were applied to these two SKS's they would be from the year 1957!! This is not very likely and that's why we can only apply that method of dating to the Factory 26 marked guns."

EDIT: Sorry - I didn't read all the subsequent responses before posting.

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