Help please. What do I have? 2 SKS's

[Chadastrophic]

I recently acquired some of my grandpa's guns from his estate. He was perpetually buying, selling, and trading guns his whole life right up until he passed.

What I know about these is very limited, but so far I've found they are both made, or imported, by Norinco and are Chinese. The one without the bayonet appears to be numbers matching, but there are no numbers on the stock. It also appears to take an AK magazine, but not sure. The one with the bayonet numbers match except for the trigger guard.

What say you?

[Guest coldblackwind]

Bottom one looks like a pretty standard sks. Top looks like theres been some fairly extensive aftermarket modification with some pretty good looking parts (unless its some crazy model that I've never run into before). If it takes ak mags, and came from the factory that way its worth quite a bit more money, but if I recall theres a kit to make them do that too. Without holding it in my hand I don't know enough to tell you from a picture.

[peejman]

The top one looks like an SKS-M (Chinese) with a thumbhole stock. The bottom one could be Chinese or Russian.

SKS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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[Dolomite_supafly]

If you were planning on selling them please PM me. I would be interested in the top one.

Dolomite

[Guest coldblackwind]

I usually don't like bubbaized military rifles, but I have to admit that top one is pretty cool.

[Caster]

I don't think that's been bubba'd, that's how they came. eeerr, it looks like all the other SKS M's I've ever seen.

Cool rifle.

[Guest coldblackwind]

Could be, I'm not real familiar the sks-m's beyond knowing what they are. Still pretty cool looking.

[Chadastrophic]

Thanks for the info so far guys. If anyone else has any input I'd be glad to hear it.

[Urse]

SKS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Top one a Standard SKS-M & The bottom one is a standard SKS. The above link has more details on both.

[Urse]

The SKS-M is going for $550-$650 on Gunbroker and the Standard will probably go for $300-$400

Edited August 1, 2011 by Urse