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Admin13.08.2021

Romanian M56 SKS Info, History and Identification

Two arsenals produced the SKS, Tula which uses the arrow in the star marking along with a plain simple 5 pointed star and Izhevsk, which uses an arrow in a triangle inside a circle as shown in the pictures below.
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Admin01.08.2021

How to Find the Manufacture Date of An SKS by Serial Number

They made a newer one that should not be confused with the early ones.
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Admin10.08.2021

Yooper John

It would seem logical that it would be either late 1955 or early 1956.
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Admin09.08.2021

Russian Serial Numbers

Advantages over the SKS were the selective-fire option, a rifle that was lighter, had more magazine capacity, not to mention that it was less labor-intensive to manufacture.
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Admin01.08.2021

Yooper John

The Jianshe Arsenal used a 26 inside a triangle as it's factory stamp.
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Admin19.07.2021

Russian Serial Numbers

To further increase its worth, ensure you know the provenance of your SKS rifles.
7804
Admin07.07.2021

SKS, SKS serial numbers, SKS prices, Russian, Chinese, Korean, German, Albanian, Romanian, Polish, 7.62x39 caliber, SKS rifle, Gun Collections Online

Lines up with same letters on the Tok.
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Admin04.08.2021

Russian Serial Numbers

Below is a Russian website on the development of the PM Makarov pistol with information that coincides with information on the "Letter Dated" SKS year of production of these rifles.
Admin20.08.2021

SKS, SKS serial numbers, SKS prices, Russian, Chinese, Korean, German, Albanian, Romanian, Polish, 7.62x39 caliber, SKS rifle, Gun Collections Online

We might not ever be able to crack it but it sure would be cool to figure it out! With all due respect to Kehaya and Poyer, the more I think about it the more that I think there's no way SKS45s have a simple alphabetically rolling Cyrillic prefix pattern.
Admin20.08.2021

Russian Serial Numbers

Note after the serial number there is a dash and then the last two digits of the year.
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