Sino-Soviet stocks will have a small 1/4" sized star cartouche on the right side buttstock. Later Chinese stocks extended the relief cut along the entire length of the trigger guard. The relief cut just above the right side of the trigger is short in length, like its Russian counterpart. The sling swivel is located on the left buttstock, with usually tall and deeply stamped serial numbers toward the rear.
The stock and handguard of the Sino-Soviet is not the typical soft Chu wood found on later Chinese guns. The meaning is unclear, except that it corresponds to the lowest setting of the slide on the rear sight leaf for battlefield zero settings of 300 meters.
The rear sight is identified with the Cyrillic Russian letter "П", which translates to P. This is called a Lightening Cut (not to be confused with an electrical charge!), and is not found on later versions of the Type-56. The right side of the bolt carrier has a milled out slot to lighten the part. Type-56 carbines were assembled with the blade bayonet style until early 1965. Later Chinese guns do not exhibit these fitment marks. The fitment/assembly stamps of the reciever and barrel (number 20 as shown) are identical to Russian markings, and can also be found at corresponding points along the barrel where front stock ferrule, gas block, and bayonet lug are pressed into position (number 1 as shown). The guns were assembled entirely, or nearly entirely from Russian parts. Electropenciled serials can be found on the bolt, the underside of the gas tube, and sometimes on the gas piston. The numbered parts on the metal contain the entire or partial serial number, and are stamped on the receiver cover, trigger group, magazine, bolt carrier, left side buttstock (which omits the letter prefix). The main serial number is found on the left front of the receiver, followed by the factory symbol, which can sometimes be lightly stamped and/or partially obscured by the wood line of the stock.
These guns are identified by a serial number which generally consists of a Latin letter, followed by a four digit number, i.e. The first rifles that were stamped with the /26\ arsenal mark are designated as the Sino-Soviet Type-56 SKS. The designation of the new model was called the Type-56.Įarly manufacturing utilized Soviet parts at the Jianshe Arsenal, Factory /26\. In that period, the Soviets sold their tooling, parts, design specifications, and provided engineering support in order for China to begin production of the SKS. As a result, assembly of the SKS at the Tula Arsenal dwindled to a trickle into early 1956. In late 1955, the Soviet Union was ramping up production of the AK-47.
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