This Russian SKS was built at the Tula arsenal in 1952 and carries serial N19xx. All of its numbers match, and none of them have been electro pencilled or restamped, so the rifle still carries its original factory numbering rather than numbers applied later to force a match. The cleaning kit is present in the buttstock trap. The bore is mirror bright, the rifle is in excellent mechanical condition, and it is in excellent condition overall.
The SKS was designed by Sergei Simonov in the Soviet Union during the Second World War: a gas operated carbine with a tilting bolt and a fixed ten round magazine enclosed in the receiver, loaded either by hand or from a stripper clip that seats in the bolt carrier. It was built at Tula from 1949 to 1958 and at Izhevsk from 1953 to 1954, and the Soviet Union produced about 2.7 million of them before the AK-47 took over the front line role. Large numbers of Soviet carbines were later put through arsenal refurbishment, and parts that did not belong to a given rifle were commonly renumbered to it, either electro pencilled in a hand written looking script or sanded down and restamped. A Soviet SKS whose numbers all match without any of that work is accordingly the less common thing to find, and it is what collectors of these rifles look for first.
Specifications
Manufacturer: Tula arsenal
Country of origin: Soviet Union
Model: SKS
Action: Gas-operated semi-automatic
Caliber: 7.62×39
Year: 1952
Serial: N19xx
Matching: All numbers matching, none electro pencilled or restamped
Condition: Excellent overall
Mechanical condition: Excellent
Bore: Mirror bright
Magazine: Fixed ten round, stripper clip fed
Included: Cleaning kit in the buttstock trap
