Chinese SKS with fiberglass stock

[ravencon]

I just saw a Chinese SKS with a fiberglass stock for sale. The stock looks like its ChiCom rather than an aftermarket stock.

Does anyone know about this version of the SKS? I've heard from a second hand source that fiberglass stocked SKSs were seen in Viet Nam from time to time.

Thanks.

 

[jesse485]

Link? I'd like to see it.

 

[ravencon]

Sorry, no link. This is at an old fashioned physical (i.e. non virtual) gun store that I stopped in at this morning.

 

[Smokey Joe]

Synthetic stocked SKS

Yup, for jungle warfare there were some Chinese SKS's made with synthetic stocks, after it was discovered that the combination of jungle rot, worms, borers, etc, etc, was more than the wood stocks could stand.

The synthetic SKS stocks were some kind of reddish material--Not sure of its exact nature, plastic, fiberglass, or what have you.

It would take some mighty hungry jungle rot organisms to eat a cosmoline-soaked SKS stock, IMHO, but apparently they were there.

If it's an original stock it will look just like the wood originals in configuration, only be of reddish "plastic" material. If that's the case, what you have is a collectors' item, not to be Bubba'd like a common SKS.

 

[Eljay]

Collectors item? I got my red fiberglass SKS stock at a gun show for $9.00. If that makes my rifle a collectors item I should have bought 20 of them! I too was told that it was a Viet Nam item but asking about it on "The AK Files" they said it was not. I try to post a picture tomorrow.

 

[briansmithwins]

sksman.com has the Chinese fiberglass stocks for $20 ea. Mine required fitting but worked out pretty well and is nice and tight.

It's fiberglass fabric in what looked (and smelled while Dremelling) like phenolic resin. I'll try to get some pics up. BSW

 

[DMK]

I have a couple of those. Global Trades used to sell them for $9 each.

BSW is right. They are fiberglass and phenolic resin.

They are often called "Chinese Jungle stocks". Definitely Chinese, but I think they are commercial not milsurp. I bought two kinds, one for a blade bayo and one for a spike bayo.

The Bottom Yugo M59 in this pic has one. This is what they look like out of the box.

Here's one I painted OD with Alumahyde II.

Here's one I modified to fit my SKS-M / Sporter and painted with black Alumahyde II.

 

[PercyShelley]

Do the "paratrooper" length SKS come with a bayonet?

Looks almost like the stuff that AK-74 magazines are made out of.

 

[Bottom Gun]

Those jungle stocks are nice. A bit slimmer than the wooden stocks and extremely rugged.

 

[DMK]

Do the "paratrooper" length SKS come with a bayonet?

Yes. And it's a little shorter.

 

[briansmithwins]

Pics of my new (to me) Chicom fiberglass stock. I like the glass pattern in the resin and probably won't paint it. BSW

 

[dispatch55126]

DMK-
Do you like the birdcage on your yugo? I saw one on Ebay today.

 

[DMK]

DMK-
Do you like the birdcage on your yugo?

Actually I do. It can't act as a flash suppressor because it threads on too far, but it shortens the rifle a little, takes a few ounces off the front end and plus I think it looks pretty cool. It's easy enough to put the GL back on if I wanted to.

 

[Dumpster Baby]

I bought a Chinese Army Type 56 SKS beater at a gun show some years back. The stock was waterlogged and kept rusting everything it touched. I tossed the original wood stock and got a black plastic folder from Tapco. I eventually decided this genuine ex-military rifle deserved better and bought one of the red fiberglass stocks. Excellent!

The original blade bayonet had been extensively used as a monopod and an entrenching tool. I replaced it with a new spike bayonet. I played with a Tapco scope mount top cover and some duckbill (junk) magazines before returning the rifle to "stock" condition.

If I acquired another SKS of any type or condition I would seriously consider putting it in a red fiberglass stock.

 

[smince]

DMK;

How hard was the fiberglass stock to paint?

Any special prep to get it looking good?

Thanks

 

[smince]

My three Com-Bloc rifles:
1.WASR w/K-Var furniture, light, birdcage flash hider
2.WASR w/Tapco Fusion handguard, Romanian folder, birdcage f/h, Surefire 6P
3.SKS Para w/Chinese red-brown fiberglass stock (after 3 coats OD Krylon), Tapco T-6 handguard

All with 20-round magazines: