Chinese Type 56 SKS Carbine - Albanian wartime example
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Today on Classic Gun Reviews I show my Chinese SKS carbine that was sent to Albania in the 1960s and take out of storage to fight in the Yugoslav wars.
This is a 7.62x39 10 round semi-automatic rifle used in various wars around the world and produced by various countries.
I have a late 1957, 2 million serial number, all numbers matching, Chinese Type 56 that was imported by Century Arms in 4th quarter 2012. One of the first batches imported in from Eastern Europe (Albania), according to CAI. It has a trench art Star cut into the stock. It's been carried a lot, judging from the battlefield wear on the metal.
Congrats on finding a nice early example!
Thank you. I just got lucky. GB seller didn't give a good description or provide good photos. I had just enough info to know it was an early unit and I was the only bidder. Wasn't totally certain until it arrived.
Mine is a 7million # I believe 1962. Lots of trench art with the name MALI and Zumma plus a couple of other words that are unreadable. Stock is very rough but it shoots like a dream.
This is very cool. I’m the guy from the police carbine SKS comments. Can’t believe that guy has the same 1973 as yours. Insane. I would love to get one myself. But I’m stuck with the same Type 56 from Albania as yours here. But mine is 2 years older than this one and it doesn’t have trench art. It is an early 1965 because it has the side swivel like your police carbine /416\ . That feature on factory /26\ examples only lasted from 1958 or 59 (I forgot exactly) , and the swivel was put back underneath in late 1965. Mine is all matching except for the trigger group which is a stamped replacement from a later Type 56 but also during service in Albania.
I bought it already semi cleaned of cosmoline from one of my local shops Upstate New York in summer 2020 but never actually took it down past regular field stripping and cleaning until last fall, and man o man was that trigger group packed with a mixture of generations of dead skin cells (hand cheese) from Albanian troops using it since at least the early 80’s, Albanian dirt, and remarkably enough, only a splash of cosmoline. Just a tinge. I actually felt bad whilst spraying it out with break cleaner and forever removing it’s DNA service record that remained intact for so many decades. In other words it was obvious that no one had ever cleaned that shit at least since the it was replaced.
really cool.. yeah mine thankfully had just a little cosmoline still left in it not too much..mostly hidden in the gas piston area under the rear sight base.. I can't imagine cleaning one fresh out of cosmoline like i use to see in the crates.. yah have to bring that outside and spend the whole day outdoors, no thanks i'll buy one after someone cleans it.. lol
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The serial code mite be 1968