1954 Izhevsk non-refurb w/DDR stampings
Re: 1954 Izhevsk non-refurb w/DDR stampings
Am I missing the /1\ mark on this rifle? Also what is the mark shown on the bayonet? I am not ashamed of my SKS noobness.
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Re: 1954 Izhevsk non-refurb w/DDR stampings
Not sure on his Bayo. But, that rifle has the DDR horizontal S/N stamps on both stock and hand guard. As Martin said, not found on the standard Russian rifle.
BUT, for some time in some arenas the /1\ was deemed to be all conclusive as being a DDR. However, there have been a lot of these rifles show up in the Market that do have the wood stampings and not the /1\ on the receiver. I have changed my mind on that /1\ in the case of an SKS. If the Germans stamped the wood twice and not the receiver, it is still a DDR to me at this time. A year or two ago no one really thought or knew about an SKS DDR except for a few old timers.
More and more are turning up on places like Gun Brokers. The SKS knowledge is not all cut and dry like on some rifles. We are still learning some on these.
Like certain refurb marks the Russians had. Some knowledge is still evolving a bit yet today. Now I've really confused you.
BUT, for some time in some arenas the /1\ was deemed to be all conclusive as being a DDR. However, there have been a lot of these rifles show up in the Market that do have the wood stampings and not the /1\ on the receiver. I have changed my mind on that /1\ in the case of an SKS. If the Germans stamped the wood twice and not the receiver, it is still a DDR to me at this time. A year or two ago no one really thought or knew about an SKS DDR except for a few old timers.
More and more are turning up on places like Gun Brokers. The SKS knowledge is not all cut and dry like on some rifles. We are still learning some on these.
Like certain refurb marks the Russians had. Some knowledge is still evolving a bit yet today. Now I've really confused you.
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Re: 1954 Izhevsk non-refurb w/DDR stampings
Not at all. It is like the MNs. We have some idea about them, but there are exceptions to the "known rules" showing up all the time. I think we really know very little of what there is to know about them. I wish some Russian fellow would write a book.OLD OUTLAW wrote: Now I've really confused you.
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, and critic, 1903-1950
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis