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Posted: 8/7/2004 8:42:28 PM EDT
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I got a call tonight, asking if I knew where to get a couple of German SKS's made between 1935 and 1945. I did a web search and found reference to East German ones made later than that, but not during that time frame. Someone apparently gave him a parts diagram that shows those dates and made in Germany. Is this true, and is there any substantial difference between them and the Yugo's or Russians? |
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Can't fully answer your question but I am pretty sure that the YUGO's are pretty unique when compared to other SKS rifles. Aside from the grenade launcher, gas shutoff valve, and such... They are also built pretty beefy in comparison to most others and do not have chrome. www.surplusrifle.com/sks/index.asp |
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Designer of the SKS Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov, born 1894 in Fedotow, Russia. Sergei started as a blacksmith and then migrated to being a machinist. He entered school to study engineering in 1917, completing the course in 1918. He worked for some time assembling the Fedrov Automat Rifle. In 1922 he became a Master Gunsmith and later a Senior Master Gunsmith. His specialty in design was semi-automatic weapons. Sergei Attended Moscow Higher Technical School to further study engineering and graduated in 1924. In 1926 he was assigned to the Tula Arsenal. He headed the prototype shop of the Fedrov design bureau. Simonov is best known as the designer of the 7.62 Simonov System Self-loading Carbine Model 1945 otherwise known as the SKS 45. |
what he said. the germans were making their own rifles and machine guns until the war ended - they never made any russian weapons. in fact, it was the other way around - the russians were copying the german designs. with all that said, the sks rifle was not designed until 1945. mp |
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