Calling All SKS Collectors!!!!!!!

[CQB27]

Traded a shooter grade SKS-S yesterday for a full size numbers matching SKS. I have more than one Paratrooper and wanted to pick up a shooter grade full size SKS. I’m not new to the SKS, but I am new to the idea of the collector grade SKS.

When I got home I decided to do some reasearch on the 0221 arsenal mark and found this…..

https://sks-files.com/index.php?topic=4929.0

Then I went on over to YouTube to Triangle 26’s channel and found this (skip to 11:00 specifically, although the whole video is interesting if you are into the SKS).

Disassembled it today to clean/go over it. I don’t think it has ever been shot. Then I found this!

It’s a rare cast receiver SKS! In fact the gas block, front sight base, receiver, top cover and trigger housing are all cast. These were made in the same time frame as the stamped receiver SKS, but fewer cast were made.

I came out way….WAY…ahead on this trade! I have already messaged the man I traded with and told him how rare this SKS is and how upside down we were on the trade. I have offered to trade back or hold on to it until he can secure a full size shooter grade SKS to swap with.

Anyway if you are a SKS collector, then you know.

 

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More pics….

 

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[RSB]

The first one I ever saw, I bought. I paid $250 in 1988 and on credit! Wish I still had it. It was a Norinco but it took AK mags from the factory, not the big long extension mag and this was pre extended conversions. Wish I still had it, and don't know what i traded it for, but I remember where I traded it. I wouldn't spend what it takes today to replace it today.

 

[CQB27]

The first one I ever saw, I bought. I paid $250 in 1988 and on credit! Wish I still had it. It was a Norinco but it took AK mags from the factory, not the big long extension mag and this was pre extended conversions. Wish I still had it, and don't know what i traded it for, but I remember where I traded it. I wouldn't spend what it takes today to replace it today.

Sounds like a Navy Arms Assault Carbine, AKA the SKS Type 84…..also pretty rare!

https://chinesesks.weebly.com/type-84.html

 

[RSB]

Sounds like a Navy Arms Assault Carbine, AKA the SKS Type 84…..also pretty rare!

https://chinesesks.weebly.com/type-84.html

I knew it then, and know it now but was young and broke and found something else I had to have. Sadly I don't remember what i traded it for.

 

[RSB]

I knew it then, and know it now but was young and broke and found something else I had to have. Sadly I don't remember what i traded it for.

Very nice OP

Pd $69 + tax for my 1st one around 1991 @ forest park farmer’s market gunshow, a 20” ChiCom,, still have it

When I close my Shop in late 90's I was selling Russian for $105 just to get my money back. still had ammo cases for $99 at that time. back then I could sell all i could get. We will never see those days again. That's the truly sad part. .

 

[rbstern]

I've always liked the SKS platform, but why people would assign value to a cast version, I'm not so sure. For me, a big part of the appeal is that machined steel.

 

[letusbuyyourcar]

Sounds like a Navy Arms Assault Carbine, AKA the SKS Type 84…..also pretty rare!

https://chinesesks.weebly.com/type-84.html

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Mishaco has a good video on the Navy Arms Carbine. I don't remember them by that name from back then but I do recall the Navy Arms Cowboy Companion as I believe it was called. I saw them in the Shotgun News and really wanted one.
The Triangle 26 guy does pretty thorough videos. But I find Mishaco more entertaining. He can nerd out about damn near ANY surplus gun for hours.
If you hadn't mentioned the cast part I wouldn't have known what I was looking at. Actually I thought that casting mark was some kinda straight crack in the receiver. But then after reading more it made sense. I have seen videos about the stamped receiver SKS but never heard of the cast receiver until now. I can imagine that IS a rare one.

 

[letusbuyyourcar]

I've always liked the SKS platform, but why people would assign value to a cast version, I'm not so sure. For me, a big part of the appeal is that machined steel.

I would assume it's just due to it being way more scarce. I know nobody likes a cast trunion AK but I've seen Mishaco talk about how there were plenty of cast trunion Russian AKs that were deemed good to go by the military. I guess it depends a lot on who was doing the casting.