The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

Another cold and snowy day in the Great Hoosier Nation, and as such it is time to do the anual cleaning and inspection of the gun collection, today its the SKS's and AK's.

The SKS's from left to right

Yugo M59/66 SKS, Yugo M59 SKS, Albanian SKS, Chinese pre-ban SKS, Chinese Model D SKS






This is the pride and joy of my SKS's, a numbers matching (except the stock) 1968 Albanian SKS. I found this one, along with 9 others, in a pawn shop a couple of miles from the house. As rare as these are I never would have dreamed to find 10 of them in a pawn shop.
P.S. they still have 1 of them

Awesome collection! You truly need to add a Russian to that group! I have a 1980 Chinese with the "French Tickler" handguard, like yours. What year is yours?

I'm surprised you don't have a 44 Tula one.

That Albanian is pretty sweet!

Again, I am impressed. You have some pretty amazing rifles Miller...they all look great, clean, well taken care of and cherished. Nice job!

Awesome

millman wrote:I'm surprised you don't have a 44 Tula one.

Damn Millman, you mean they made them in 44 @ Tula......................

Great now I have another one to get..................

Please tell me they didn't use hex recievers on them also...........................

Very nice. Makes me wish I had grabbed one at the gun show, but I'm trying my damndest to limit myself to bolt action rifles.

I see you have one with the plastic handguard (French tickler I presume, lol). I ran into one of those at a local gunshop. I thought it was aftermarket or something. Shows what I know about SKS's.

Miller Tyme wrote:

millman wrote:I'm surprised you don't have a 44 Tula one.

Please tell me they didn't use hex recievers on them also...........................

I'm sure they did.You just haven't looked hard enough yet. You might luck into a sniper version.

pacanis wrote:Very nice. Makes me wish I had grabbed one at the gun show, but I'm trying my damndest to limit myself to bolt action rifles.

I see you have one with the plastic handguard (French tickler I presume, lol). I ran into one of those at a local gunshop. I thought it was aftermarket or something. Shows what I know about SKS's.

The plastic handguard is completely stock, mine is still in cosmoline and every time I touch it I get some cosmo-goo all over.

Drago wrote:

pacanis wrote:Very nice. Makes me wish I had grabbed one at the gun show, but I'm trying my damndest to limit myself to bolt action rifles.

I see you have one with the plastic handguard (French tickler I presume, lol). I ran into one of those at a local gunshop. I thought it was aftermarket or something. Shows what I know about SKS's.

The plastic handguard is completely stock, mine is still in cosmoline and every time I touch it I get some cosmo-goo all over.

I didn't even give that SKS a look because I had no idea some came with plastic handguards until your post.

I've seen them with black plastic handguards, as well, but don't know if they came that way or not.

True for sure or not, I have heard the Black are a replacement. I have a 1980 Norinco /26\ that has the french tickler. Bought it new in 1994 or 95.
It was built in 1980.

Oh, forgot.The plastic hand guard came in the later years of production. The 1979 and 1980 mostly had these. Some of the best built rifles with the best stock finish they ever sent here.

If the 44 Tula proves to be too difficult, you can get the 10th anniversary edition as a 54 Tula.

What? 54 isn't the 10th year? Of course it is. The SKS-45 is the model designation for the first prototype. So count on your fingers - 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 51, 53, 54. Yep, that's ten! Go get one!

Hey MT. This is your ole buddy LC. Just where did you say that pawn shop was??

martin08 wrote:If the 44 Tula proves to be too difficult, you can get the 10th anniversary edition as a 54 Tula.

What? 54 isn't the 10th year? Of course it is. The SKS-45 is the model designation for the first prototype. So count on your fingers - 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 51, 53, 54. Yep, that's ten! Go get one!

Yup,the Moose is back. Don't know who that imposter with the red hat was though.

Longcolt44 wrote:Hey MT. This is your ole buddy LC. Just where did you say that pawn shop was??

PM inbound LC

i need to find the albanian then i will be happy for a while

Love the albanian

I got my SKS's years ago & haven't considered getting more til recently with all this SKS talk.

Great collection Miller.