The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

What would a VZ 52, good metal finish, worn wood finish, couple of stock dents (looks like it might have been dropped in large gravel.) be worth? SHE, no import marks.

millman wrote:Personally I would be leery of firing a rifle that had the bolt subjected to high heat. Unless you know what you are doing the metal could become brittle, or too soft. Danger lurks here.

The handle isn't the stressed part while firing, the head is where all the stress is so i don't see a problem.

I had the metal shop at work bend mine back. they heated the entire thing in an oven iirc.

he was asking 300, i got it for 275 with 170 rounds of ammo

Junk Yard Dog wrote:Aztec Arms import, 15 year old import, Aztec was a sponsor on the original RMNF back then until they ran out of Mosins to sell . Nice find, Aztec was a bit more selective than some , they would match the bayonets to the 91/30's , stuff like that.

not bad for 15 years out of cosmo then.

It was being advertised as an "M44 without the bayonet"

But when I paid closer attention to the pictures...

It was a 1944 Izhevsk M38 in the correct M38 stock, completely unblemished!

Cleaning rod is present, rifling is immaculate!

Pics later when I can get some that actually look good.

They are still legal to use at designed, as soon as you shoulder it, it is then illegal. I have a SBR, a fun gun but it is so stupid to pay for the tax on a gun that falls between a pistol and a rifle. That is what I thought. I don't see it as they changed their mind. Shouldering the stock is using...

They are still legal to use at designed, as soon as you shoulder it, it is then illegal. I have a SBR, a fun gun but it is so stupid to pay for the tax on a gun that falls between a pistol and a rifle. That is what I thought. I don't see it as they changed their mind. Shouldering the stock is using...

How much too short? 1/4 inch or so? A threaded barrel stock will fit on a pinned barrel action, but it will not work the other way around without work/fitting. yeah just about, and it's cut for a blade bayonet. the stock i have on it right now fits perfectly and is cut for a tent spike, but the bla...

this stock is actually too short, the rear locking pin for the trigger group is tight against the back, but the front does not reach the plate attached to the barrel.

okay, any idea why the stock that came with it doesn't fit? the front doesn't actually notch into the front plate, but all the replacements do.

The don't base anything on the stock that the 21408 rifle is sitting in; it was a chinese stock i had laying around while the glue on the one i got with it is drying.

This SKS has literally no letters of any kind. No characters, no letters, no stamps. Just highly precise numbering, not the angled and irregular stamping of a chinese (where each number looks like it was stamped individually) this looks like a clean, crisp, precise stamping. Oddly: The bolt carrier ...

Not sure how to tell.

Well yeah but a M59 is a little more desirable, you know?

I have another T56 and the stampings and serial number fonts don't match at all between them.

It's not a T56, it's a Yugo M59, apparently.

Greasemonkey wrote:Does it fit loosely on the gas block? How rough is the sealing surface on the gas block?

gasblock is clean, tube wobbles on the block, inside of the tube is pitted like mad on the first half inch.

So I've got what i am told is a type-56 SKS, but it only has english numbering and no russian or chinese characters of any kind. it is leaking from the end of the gas tube where it meets the gas block, and so it won't cycle. It will cycle on a gas tube i pulled off another T56, and i have rigged up ...

it has the marks highlighted, but i will be avoiding it as he's trying to change the deal to get even more for it.