Rifle stock identification help

Looks like a K98 Mauser stock to me.

Looks like an SKS stock to me.

SKS was the first thing that popped into my mind.

SKS

herrwalther said:

Looks like a K98 Mauser stock to me.

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Doesn't have the dismount hole.

I'm thinking SKS.

SKS. No doubts.

SKS for sure, maybe Chinese or Yugo -- they both seem to like stamping numbers on the buttstock. Finish and wood looks a bit more Chinese to my eye.

With those cut outs around the trigger. No doubt. SKS stock.

With that number style likely of the chi-com variety.

Age wise 60's- late 80's.
Older if the front is cut for a blade instead of the spike bayonet.

This is the K98k I own, notice the cut out for the bolt handle.
Someone cut down the stock to make a sporter and the next owner removed the cut up stock to return the K98 back to military style.

SKS, Chinese made (at least the sn# stamp on the side looks Chinese). The sling is a Chines one, commonly called a Jungle sling I think. The wire spring like wrappings were used as the leather tabs would rot out in the Jungle. They were used with the reddish fiberglass type stocks.

But I could be wrong
WB

Wildbillz said:

SKS, Chinese made (at least the sn# stamp on the side looks Chinese). The sling is a Chines one, commonly called a Jungle sling I think. The wire spring like wrappings were used as the leather tabs would rot out in the Jungle. They were used with the reddish fiberglass type stocks.

But I could be wrong
WB

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Yep, the sling looks Chinese, the serial number looks Chinese, the buttplate looks Chinese, and the color of the stock looks Chinese. Looks exactly like what came on my Norinco import from the early 1990s.

herrwalther said:

Looks like a K98 Mauser stock to me.

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Me too. How do the SKS folks explain the cut out for manipulating the bolt?

That’s a Yugo SKS.

P5 Guy said:

Me too. How do the SKS folks explain the cut out for manipulating the bolt?

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If you’re talking about the relief cut on the bottom of the stock, on my old SKS it was there so you can easily reach the paddle safety lever with a right handed trigger finger.



The one at the top is the top cover latch cut out.




Stay safe

Kar98k stock would have a sling hole through the thing just aft of the wrist.
And there would be an inset for the barrel band, too.

SKS stock. Probably removed to mount a polymer stock.

P5 Guy said:

Me too. How do the SKS folks explain the cut out for manipulating the bolt?

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And the relief cut for the bolt handle?



And not all versions of the K98 had a bolt disassembly ring in the stock or a sling slot.



The stock on the top rifle is an Israeli surplus. Yes those Jews fighting for Israel used surplus Mauser.
I guess the way this gets a definitive answer is to drop an SKS or K98 action into the stock.
My USSR SKS does not have that safety cutout?

SKS, reason above, plus the cut out on the bottom for the bayonet and trigger/mag group. Owning a YUGO sks and a KAR98. It screams yugo sks to me.

Look at the inlet for the mag and bayonet for the stock in question. Verse the masuer stock.

Top is the SKS stock in question, bottem is a KAR98 stock.

I own a YUGO SKS and a KAR98, that stock screams SKS to me. nothing of it looks like a Mauser to me.

P5 Guy said:

And the relief cut for the bolt handle?

And not all versions of the K98 had a bolt disassembly ring in the stock or a sling slot.

The stock on the top rifle is an Israeli surplus. Yes those Jews fighting for Israel used surplus Mauser.
I guess the way this gets a definitive answer is to drop an SKS or K98 action into the stock.
My USSR SKS does not have that safety cutout?

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It isn’t a relief cut for the bolt handle at the top, it’s a relief cut allowing the receiver cover latch to be easily reached so it can move and be retracted in order to remove the cover (see second pic below).



Since there were literally millions of these made over several decades, in dozens of factories in numerous countries; some stocks may have the safety cut out and/or the receiver cover latch cut out features, while others may have one of them, others neither one.

I had a Chinese SKS with a hollow fiberglass-like stock rather than a wooden one. It had the trigger finger lever-safety indentation, it didn’t have a cut out at the top. My Dads Yugo is exactly like the OP’s with the exact same safety and cover latch cuts in the stock. They’re there for the reasons I posted.

In the case of the OP’s pic I’ll agree with the others that is an SKS stock not a k98 stock.

Stay safe.

SKS. Another "tell" is that lengthwise groove in the fore end which is for the cleaning rod.

P5 Guy said:

Me too. How do the SKS folks explain the cut out for manipulating the bolt?

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That is clearance to operate the safety lever.