Chinese "Paratrooper" SKS....

[NRAJOE]

Put one on layaway at Cabela's in Dundee thursday...100% bluing...98% wood (scuff on left side of stock right under receiver) gonna drive me nuts until I get that baby out of layaway!

Anyone else got one?  

[1911crazy]

Put one on layaway at Cabela's in Dundee thursday...100% bluing...98% wood (scuff on left side of stock right under receiver) gonna drive me nuts until I get that baby out of layaway!

Anyone else got one?  

Got one??  I have two para's and two short barreled sks sporters too. One of my latest purchases was a paratrooper that was owned by a gun shop salesman it was his personal gun and it still looked like new.  The first few minutes at the local range I was plinking small rocks at 100 yds with it.  Then i handed it to my son who benchrested it and i told him to aim dead on and he shot 1 1/2" to 2" groups with it so talk about that little short barrel being accurate?? Thats with some orginal chinese norinco 7.62x39 ammo too.  My other two orginal chinese norinco sks sporters have thumbhole stocks take "AK" mags and both have the same barrel lengths as the paratroopers.   The prices vary on these guns with the para's hitting $350++ and the sporters close to $500 on the net, but we can still find some around a lot cheaper too.  I think a good price on any chinese norinco sks right now is between $150 to $225.  The russian sks refurbs NIB start at around $250 which isn't a bad deal too.  Congrats on your find/purchase.                                             BigBill

[S.S.]

Don't Be fooled by a name!
I am almost positive that The Chinese
military never created a Paratrooper SKS!
These were created by importers to get rid of the
Bayonet POST. They simply cut the barrel back and
re-attached the front sight. (most still have the
slot cut in the forend still that the Bayonet folded into)
The only thing I have seen the
Chinese do to the SKS (Type 56) to make it more portable
was to experiment with a folding stock. I think that even that
never left the experimental stages. Importers will
"STICK" it to you when they can. I have seen many guns that
they make to look like something special to get more money for
them. There are many weapons floating around right
now with NAZI stamps on them that were put there after they
reached the U.S. Importers. There are a lot of "SNIPER" rifles
that were pieced together in their shops also.

[NRAJOE]

Thats why I put " " when I said "Paratrooper"....I know the Chinese did not issue these as military rifles...the "Paratrooper" was made for export.

[Mikey]

You fellas know that you really have to admire the Chinese for their imagination.  Importers asked them to create guns that the American shooter would like better than the standard military fare, so the Chinese took the AK-47 action and screwed an SKS barrel into it and called it a sporter or a hunter.  Then they take the SKS and screw in the shorter AK-47 barrel and call it a paratrooper, or let the importers call it that.

I have one of Norico's NHM-91s - Norinco Hunting Model - 91.  It is nothing more that a dumb-stock (thumbhole and fat wood) Ak with an SKS barrel but, ti will gorup at 2" at one hunnert yards, which is pretty good for a mil-surp cross-over.  

But, they have also tried to come up with an accurate 308 in an AK action and a few other 'innovations' as well.  Yep, gotta give those folks credit for the 'Re-arming of America'  - LOL.  Mikey.

[1911crazy]

The chinese norince paratrooper was made for the american market and both of my para's have the bayonet lugs with bayo's.  The sporter sks with the thumb hole stocks had the bayo lug cut off.  Mikey's right i have to admire the Chinese for thinking of us so well and making these awesome guns for our market.  But history does repeat itself if we think about it with the russians too with their "AK's"  they have made so many different ones and now with their sites on our market they are flooding us with some awesome guns too like an "AK" shotgun and sporters that are very close to the vepr's  I couldn't tell the difference with or withouit my glasses on but they sure do look alike except in the price tag.  Even Mauser of Germany who started it all with so many different models of calibers in so many mausers and there is a 1,000 different mausers too. Maybe thats were the Chinese got the idea and learned watching mauser and russia to make so many different models of the sks my hats off to them for sure for seeing a market in us and making them for us  too.
Even the Chinese Norinco AK sporter that looked like a rifle except it took ak mags while I have only seen one and passed on it because the barrel was hacked off to make it look like an ak.(bubba got it)  Now the russians sporter ak looks very much like it(copy of it) except the stock is black plastic instead of real wood like the chinese ak sporter.  I kind of like the real wood over the plastic it makes the gun look like a gun but thats my opinion.  The gun market is wide open now with all these imports comming here and I'm glad there are still affordable guns available to us and we have a choice thats what America is all about  "Freedom of choice" we can choose what we want to be, go to what church we want to if we do go, buy what we want, drive a car if we want, buy what gun we want(well almost) and never have to stand in line for food or toilet paper right??  We are truely blessed to be born here aren't we. God i love this country!!!!!!
Godbless    BigBill

[NRAJOE]

[1911crazy]

Don't Be fooled by a name!
I am almost positive that The Chinese
military never created a Paratrooper SKS!
These were created by importers to get rid of the
Bayonet POST. They simply cut the barrel back and
re-attached the front sight. (most still have the
slot cut in the forend still that the Bayonet folded into)
The only thing I have seen the
Chinese do to the SKS (Type 56) to make it more portable
was to experiment with a folding stock. I think that even that
never left the experimental stages. Importers will
"STICK" it to you when they can. I have seen many guns that
they make to look like something special to get more money for
them. There are many weapons floating around right
now with NAZI stamps on them that were put there after they
reached the U.S. Importers. There are a lot of "SNIPER" rifles
that were pieced together in their shops also.

S.Sumner your right again I found "nazi" stamps for sale at numrich gun parts so some of these guns are phoney's for sure!!!!!!!  We must becareful what we look at and buy now I'm sure.  Even all these sniper 91/30 mosins too there is  bunch of fakes made by Century too because there on the wrong brand of recievers because the manufacturer is wrong so we have to have eyes on the back of our head now too.  As we hit the bottom of the barrel on some of these treasures the suppliers are willing to pull out all stops to make the last buck they can!!!!          BigBill


Of course we all heard of a SINO SKS thats a chinese sks that was assembled in China with russian made parts so its actually a russian quality sks for a chinese price.  But there is a 98K mauser that is almost the same way too.  There is a YUGO Preduzecci 44 Model98 mauser out there that is dirt cheap its actually a German Karbiner 98k 8mm mauser with all the markings ground off and restamped with the yugo seal.  You can pick it out by the short german handguard that ends at the front of the rear site on the barrel.  It dosen't go all the way to the reciever like on most yugo's.  Its a German 98 for a yugo price its the best german msuer buy out there because most can be had for under $100 while some are paying up to $400 on some that maybe fakes i'm sure.  While it may not have any german markings the short handguard is a dead give away.