The Arsenal is usually marked on the top of the receiver cover and all the pictures I have seen have the same stamping. That is why I am led to believe the first 2 digits have something to do with the year.
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If someone else knows more about these I will post it, so let me know. Notice the two below are only numbers off. Again, as far as date of manufacture goes and judging by the characteristics of the rifles I would estimate the early to mid 60's as the time frame. After the weapon producing factories were bombed most of the weapons were supplied by the Chinese. This is a picture of the M21 gun. They made a newer one that should not be confused with the early ones. We don't know of an accurate way of dating these other than using features. Romania used the entire year stamped after the serial number.
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They were manufactured at the Cugir plant in Romania from the late 50's into the early 60's. There are reports of Romanian SKS's without the year stamped on them. They are more than likely, as in the case of the Albanian's, either prior to or after with the latter being the most reasonable. The same thing was also found in the Russian SKS's. Romanian SKS's are referred to as a Model This is a vintage Romanian SKS.
For the most part it is easy to tell where and when the gun in question was made because of the markings and our knowledge of the Russian small weapons. 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. Izhevsk only produced the SKS for 2 years. In the mid 50's Russia started marking the guns on the left side of the receiver with a small star designating the manufacture at the Tula arsenal.
These are generally considered by many to be the last run in Note the small star rearward of the serial number.
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Now comes the question. When was the no date stamped Tula receiver cover gun manufactured?
It would seem logical that it would be either late or early The receiver on these guns are not stamped with the small Tula star so it seems they would have been produced prior to that vintage SKS. Being that they are stamped with the star but without a date on the receiver cover would suggest they were made later then the stamped guns. The 3 guns that I have seen are not rebuilds since they show no rebuild markings nor do they exhibit any of the rebuild characteristics.
So, when were they actually produced? It seems yet another mystery in the unending mysteries of the SKS!!! 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. The codes appear to be the same for production of weapons and ammo at this time period. Yugoslavia first produced the SKS in and designated it the Model It was similar to other countries SKS of the same era except for the chrome plating of the bore. The year was signified by the letter preceding the serial number.
The Model 59 was produced in the late 's and early 's and identified with a B or C preceding the serial number.
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There have been no reports of the Model 59 with a A prefix to the serial number. In a new model was adopted and production was again started for the Yugoslavian SKS with the addition of a grenade launcher. This new model was produced from to Letters were again used to signify the year of production starting with the letter D in and ending with C in It gives more detail and information than given here. This is the chart found on Survivor's forum by withergyld and printed here with his permission. This would be a era gun according to the charts.
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User Name Remember Me? January 4, , I picked up a norinco sks way back in august and im not sure how to tell what date it was made. The only things i see are a symbol with chinese writing with the numbers and numbers on the stock if needed i can post pics. I still have no problem correcting your grammar. I never said half the stuff people said I did- Albert Einstein You can't believe everything you read on the internet- Benjamin Franklin.
Really production that seems how for how nice mine looks lol thanks for the info.