Uncommon rifle...

[Kano383]

Got to shoot this today:





Looks like a longish SKS with an AK mag, but it's actually a select-fire assault rifle, Chinese Type 63.

7.62x39, 20 rounds mags, can also take AK mags (like the one pictured).

 

[Pat Riot]

That is very cool. How did you like it? How did it shoot?

 

[saiga308]

looks like it was used in Vietnam
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[saiga308]

video time 11:10 mark also CHARGE!!!!

 

[Slamfire]

looks like it was used in Vietnam
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time 2:09 ​

After it went through the Korean War!

Shows the SKS is a robust design.

 

[Kano383]

That is very cool. How did you like it? How did it shoot?

This particular one was a jam-trap, but as you can see it is in less than pristine conditions...

It rattles, but in a loose clunky way, not the healthy rattle of an AK. Trigger is typical com-bloc, the rifle is long, the stock unwieldy for this type of mag arrangement... The whole mousetrap feels like they tried to get a long range rifle in an assault rifle, and ended up with something that is neither.

This one (and the other half-dozen that I had the chance to check at the same time) was poorly maintained, but even new I doubt that it's the kind of rifle one would fall in love with...

 

[saiga308]

After it went through the Korean War!

Shows the SKS is a robust design.

but i see a lot of mosins time 22:00
time 22:25 check out the old German stick grenade

 

[saiga308]

23:27 i see a mauser rifle there

 

[theotherwaldo]

check out the old German stick grenade

-According to my research, the Nationalist Chinese used German-style grenades, rifles, helmets and other personal gear, much of which fell into Communist hands... .

 

[Ks5shooter]

COOL

 

[Slamfire]

but i see a lot of mosins time 22:00
time 22:25 check out the old German stick grenade

Just did a bit of research on this. I thought that the SKS being a WW2 rifle would have been used by the Chinese and/or the North Koreans. At best it would have been around after the Armistice, but whether anyone, Chinese, Russian advisors, or North Korean had one before that time, is not well established. And that is also true for the AK47.

This is a good analysis of the Communist weapons in that conflict:

Goldfish » 04 Aug 2006, 05:39

The Chinese troops that went into Korea in the winter of 1950 were mostly equipped with leftovers from the Chinese Civil War (which was just winding up in Southwest China). Most troops carried various models of the Japanese Arisaka and the Thompson SMG with officers carrying Mauser pistols, M1911s or Nambus. Machine guns were the ZB-26, Bren, and Japanese Type 99 LMGs and Japanese medium and heavy MGs. Quite a few carried a variety of odds and ends depending on their origin (whether they were originally Communist, Nationalist units which might have been US/British equipped, or former Japanese puppet troops). I have seen photos of Chinese troops in/en route to Korea armed with everything from "Hengyang" Mauser 88s to SMLEs to M1 carbines. Some troops were even equipped with a weird United Defense SMG that resembled the Thompson and was issued by the Sino-American Cooperative Organization to Chinese Nationalist guerillas during WWII. At the People's Revolutionary Military Museum in Beijing, I even saw some German SG-44s and MG-42s that must have been given to Chinese troops by the Russians. I don't know if either of these saw service in Korea though. Most field gear was predominantly Japanese (especially helmets and grenades) with a smattering of American and Russian (pre-1941) stuff.

The reason that Chinese troops went into Korea so equipped was because the Russians had been afraid to directly supply Russian weapons and gear to the Chinese Communists while they fought the Nationalists for fear the United States would answer with massive increased aid to Chiang's troops. Instead, they supplied the Communists with captured Japanese weapons and some older Russian weapons (the Russians had supplied Chiang's army from 1938-41) which could not be proven to have come directly from the Soviets.

After 1950, most Chinese troops were equipped with Russian weapons, mostly bolt-action rifles, pistols and versions of the PPSH SMG as well as Russian artillery and support weapons. I have never seen the SKS in Chinese service in Korea. The SKS and AK-47 are both referred to as the "Type-56" (rifle and assault rifle respectively) in China, so it is likely that they did not enter service with the PLA until 1956, after the Korean War.

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