Should I keep the cloth strips from the cleaning hole in my SKS?

[cantstop]

When I cleaned up my SKS there was no cleaning kit in the stock. There was however a couple of cloth strips that are about 1/2 inch by 15 inches. The one looks like it was cut from a green cloth, like a uniform shirt.

I put them in a zip lock bag and marked the bag with the gun's S/N, but now I'm wondering if they have any value or should just be tossed.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Dave91]

Keep them. They were probably put there by the last soldier who was issued the rifle.

 

[cantstop]

Thanks Dave.

 

[Mooseman]

They would have no intrinsic value, but may have sentimental or other value to you.

 

[yellowsled]

Meh... I'd trash it

 

[Machodoc]

I'd put them right back where you found them.

 

[Jaybeez]

sounds like homemade tourniquets.

its a yugo sks right?

 

[ohen cepel]

I would leave them in the rifle or throw them away since I would lose them otherwise.

That being said, I don't think them being or not being with the rifle will matter any.

 

[Skins_Brew]

I found an old cigarette in the butt of one of my garands.



j/k, i wanted to make all the garand junkies jealous for a minute.

 

[WatTyler]

If it was a Yugo SKS, the strips were probably intended for use with the Yugo cleaning kit. Along with the tube/brush 'n jag kit in the butt, there would be the banjo oil bottle and a long piece of heavy string with loops on each end - one step up from a bootlace. But if you wet the string, thread it down the barrel and put a strip of cloth through the loop, it could serve as a primitive pull-thru.

 

[cantstop]

Thanks for all of the replies.

It is a Chinese 56 SKS (1956 all matching). It was missing the cleaning kit. I have since picked one up. When I took it apart to clean up the cosmo, I found the strips. They look like they've run through the barrel a few times.

I asked the question because I have seen some really strange things at gun shows and wanted to know if other folks would want this stuff (should I ever dispose of this gun).

I personally don't see a need for them. I just didn't want to throw out a piece of history associated with the rifle - if it mattered.

I've decided to just keep the strips in a zip lock bag with my other gun stuff, marked with the SKS's S/N. In the unlikely event I ever sell this gun, I'll let the new owner decide what to do with them.

 

[rj1974]

Keep em in there , there was a member here not long ago the found a bone in one of his .

 

[Grey_Man]

I say keep them. They won't add any actual value, but I think stuff like that is cool. It gives you a sense of the history of the weapon, which is one of the reasons I got into C&R firearms in the first place.

 

[Bob A]

I bought a Browning Hi Power off GB a while ago; it was said to have come from Israel, though there was no obvious marking to make it so.

I took it to Engage to have them remove the magazine safety and check it over; they returned it along with a plastic bag containing all that they removed from the pistol. Along with some old springs and the disconnector, there was . . . a dead fly.

Should I have kept it?

 

[Machodoc]

I bought a Browning Hi Power off GB a while ago; it was said to have come from Israel, though there was no obvious marking to make it so.

I took it to Engage to have them remove the magazine safety and check it over; they returned it along with a plastic bag containing all that they removed from the pistol. Along with some old springs and the disconnector, there was . . . a dead fly.

Should I have kept it?

Only if you think you might have to change the springs on the fly.