- NORINCO SKS SERIAL NUMBER IDENTIFICATION SERIAL NUMBER
- NORINCO SKS SERIAL NUMBER IDENTIFICATION SERIES
NORINCO SKS SERIAL NUMBER IDENTIFICATION SERIES
Most of Howie's data points are from the Chinese SKS rifles imported from Albania in recent years, and we don't know if those were shipped from China to Albania from just one (perhaps of many) storage facilities, and if they only represent a few series of rifles that were made. We don't know how big a sampling of data we're working with, for example, or if it's skewed in some way. owners of these rifles, here are some rough projections of production figures that may, or may not be, accurate."
NORINCO SKS SERIAL NUMBER IDENTIFICATION SERIAL NUMBER
It's the sort of thing that should be qualified with a statement like, "Based upon serial number data provided by U.S. I believe that this info is extrapolated from data gathered by Howie Bearse, and it's the best that we have, but it's still not certain fact. What's a bit more compelling are the rough estimates of production numbers for these rifles. I've personally only seen one of them, and I've talked with a collector whom I believe to be truthful who claims to have another one. Our faith is rattled because there just don't seem to be any 1-million series serial number guns out there. If an explanation floats past that seems to fit, they are quick to call it a fact. It fills a void in what we know about these early rifles, and some people are very uncomfortable not having a tidy explanation for things. The same thing holds true with the new decision (by somebody) that the 1957 production rifles were the six-digit Jianshe-marked examples. We just have some theories that sound good.** Once again, some people have come up with some compelling theories and explanations, but we simply don't know if they are correct, or not. For some people on another forum to now decide (also rather arbitrarily) that they "are now to be called soviet-sinos" doesn't make that a correct identification. Just to keep this in perspective, the term "ghost" rifle was sort of arbitrarily assigned to certain of the early Chinese SKS rifles that didn't have the Jianshe cartouche on them. The # is the amount of each rifle produced( gathered from serial #'s of known rifles I think). Looks like your letter prefix/26\ is 1960/61 according to this. Ghosts are now to be called soviet-sinos. After that, they changed to the numerical system that was spoken of previously.
Yooper John's site states that the Sino-soviets were produced in 1956. I got the impression from what I read that the formula you mention did not apply to the rifles with an alphanumeric serial number, as mine is. Most people go with what Yooper John states, though. Only accurate for Jianshe arsenal rifles serial numbered in the millions, and there's even some debate about that. FWIW though, this only applies to the ones made in arsenal 26.
On the sks, the manufacturer date, is the first number in the serial number for example 2 would be 1958 or 2 years after 1956 which is the starting point for the Chinese manufacturing. A Jianshe arsenal with a serial number beginning with a letter, then followed by a four-digit number, is currently believed by most collectors to be a 1956 Sino-Soviet (see photo of example). Is this what is referred to as a "Sino-Soviet"? Just picked up a Type 56 with serial number F6370.
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