Stryker
NES Member
Bought a Yugo SKS this past week - nice condition overall and got the chance to clean it up this weekend
Had a couple of questions on some things I discovered while cleaning the SKS
After getting the cosmo out, the barrel didn't take too much effort to clean and in fact had no GSR after running a brush and patches through. The barrel is bright and shiny and the bluing on the outside looks newer than that of the receiver.
Wondering if it had a new barrel put onto it before it was put into cosmoline? It's what I am thinking.
The barrel is stamped with a 183
And the parts (trigger, bolt group, rear sight, receiver, etc) have a '183' that was hand engraved into it
The bolt was definitely cleaned better later
So would that be a new barrel where the 183 was to confirm that the parts were headspaced and tested with a new barrel?
2nd question:
The rear sight block looks to have had some previous engraving or stamped info engraved off - any thoughts as to what would have been here and why it would have been removed?
Thanks for any insight on this!
Had a couple of questions on some things I discovered while cleaning the SKS
After getting the cosmo out, the barrel didn't take too much effort to clean and in fact had no GSR after running a brush and patches through. The barrel is bright and shiny and the bluing on the outside looks newer than that of the receiver.
Wondering if it had a new barrel put onto it before it was put into cosmoline? It's what I am thinking.
The barrel is stamped with a 183
And the parts (trigger, bolt group, rear sight, receiver, etc) have a '183' that was hand engraved into it
The bolt was definitely cleaned better later
So would that be a new barrel where the 183 was to confirm that the parts were headspaced and tested with a new barrel?
2nd question:
The rear sight block looks to have had some previous engraving or stamped info engraved off - any thoughts as to what would have been here and why it would have been removed?
Thanks for any insight on this!