Relative Quality of SKS Pattern Carbines (Part 3) - Chinese

Long awaited Part 3.

Didn’t come out exactly as I wanted, but close enough.

More content coming soon, including Type 56 Carbine content as well as Part 4 of this series - covering Yugos.

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How to Identify Common SKS Pattern Carbine Variants:
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Relative Quality of SKS Pattern Carbines (Part 1) - Soviet
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Relative Quality of SKS Pattern Carbines (Part 2) - Romanian and Albanian
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Pinned Vs. Threaded SKS Barrels (w/ Heat Test)
   • Pinned vs. Threaded SKS Barrels (w/ H...  

Is the Chinese SKS Garbage?
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0:00 Introduction
2:20 Bore Quality
6:34 Milling Quality
8:35 Did Quality Deteriorate with Time?
10:24 Lightening Cuts
11:28 Stamped Trigger Housings
14:19 2-Piece Gas Tubes
14:46 Quality Over Time, Summary
15:52 Pinned vs threaded barrels
16:56 History and Context
19:14 Inferior Wood Stocks
21:22 Great Famine, Chinese Philosophy
23:39 Outro
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