![]() I bought one of these rifles from PSA in July 2021 for $499. The Chinese themselves would go on to produce millions of Type 56 carbines, which is exactly where our 3 you see here come from.įrom front to back, you’ve got your hooded front sight and barrel with no muzzle device, an under-folding ‘spike’ type bayonet that’s essentially a long flathead screwdriver that will still absolutely murder your gooey bits, your gas tube, and handguard assembly, the rear sight block, your bolt assembly, trigger assembly, and the rifle stock itself. Much less powerful than the 54R fielded by infantryman and machine gunners, but a significant step up from the pistol calibers found in Soviet submachine guns.Īllegedly, the SKS saw some very limited or experimental use with Russian frontline units near the end of the war in 1945, but not in any kind of significant numbers.Īlthough it was ultimately replaced by Kalashnikov’s OG AK-47, the SKS became quite popular with a number of Soviet satellite states as the Soviet Union exported the technical know-how (and in some cases the parts themselves) to Communist militaries the world over. ![]() The original Russian SKS was developed by Sergei Simonov and was designed to take advantage of the Soviet’s adoption of the M43 7.62X39 intermediate cartridge. Of course, considering the rifles have been in storage for a few decades, this means they’re going to be absolutely oozing with nasty ass cosmoline that you’ll need to remove before they’re safe to fire again, and you can check out our experience in doing just that here. ![]()
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