In early 90s, a few of us broke college kids wanted to get into guns and went to the local gun show. What was cheap enough to buy by skipping meals at the dining hall and eating ramen? SKSes and AKs. My buddy bought an SKS, I picked up a MAK90. He paid $125 for his 'quality' SKS, I paid $175 for my AK. Detachable mags seemed worth the $50 to me. Somewhere along the line I sold my MAK90 because I was dumb.
Fast forward 26 years and my buddy is about to pass (brain tumor / cancer) so he's making sure his stuff goes to people he wants to have it. I got two things from his collection that have special meaning to me, and this is one of them:
It's the SKS he bought from the same guy I got my AK from. We shot the crap out of these 762s for a while before they went into storage, and it's probably not seen the light of day for 20+ years at this point. I'm going to clean it up and go blast some paper in his honor before it goes back into the dark until it's my turn to start distributing things.
Now that I know a little more, it appears to be a Russian version from 1953. All the numbers on the stock, receiver, bolt carrier, bolt, dust cover, trigger group and magazine match which is cool. The stock is in better shape than the picture would show due to the lighting, and there appears to be no rust or anything. Surprising since a lot of his stuff was rusting due to where they were stored.
Fast forward 26 years and my buddy is about to pass (brain tumor / cancer) so he's making sure his stuff goes to people he wants to have it. I got two things from his collection that have special meaning to me, and this is one of them:
It's the SKS he bought from the same guy I got my AK from. We shot the crap out of these 762s for a while before they went into storage, and it's probably not seen the light of day for 20+ years at this point. I'm going to clean it up and go blast some paper in his honor before it goes back into the dark until it's my turn to start distributing things.
Now that I know a little more, it appears to be a Russian version from 1953. All the numbers on the stock, receiver, bolt carrier, bolt, dust cover, trigger group and magazine match which is cool. The stock is in better shape than the picture would show due to the lighting, and there appears to be no rust or anything. Surprising since a lot of his stuff was rusting due to where they were stored.
