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With some help I was able to come up with a correlation between the serial number letter prefix and the year of manufacture in the logbooks. I have also come up with a pattern of how the Yugo SKS design evolved.
- Yugo SKS serial number locations **big pics** M59 added
The Yugoslavian M59/66 rifle will usually have the serial...
- Yugo SKS serial number locations **big pics** M59 added
26 cze 2009 · manufacturing date prefix codes for Yugo SKSs. This is a few years old, but I hadn't seen it until yesterday. While Poyer hints in his SKS book that there's some connection between serial codes and manufacturing dates, he stops short of making any firm conclusions.
SKS serial number lookup can be difficult as a result of their long history and variety of models from various origin countries. In this exclusive article, we’ll look at rifles’ history and analyze how to search serial codes to find your gun’s production dates.
Yugoslavian SKSs are one of the more common kinds in the U.S. after Chinese guns, and they’re the most distinctive and easy to identify as well. The most common Yugo SKS pattern is the Zastava M59/66 PAP which was built under license from the USSR.
The Yugoslavian M59/66 rifle will usually have the serial number marked in eight locations. The first six are visible with the rifle fully assembled: Left side of the receiver.
Look at a Romanian rifle's serial number. At the end of the serial number, there is a dash followed by four numbers. These four numbers indicate the date of manufacture. For example, a serial number 2958E44--1967 indicates that the SKS was manufactured in 1967.
All the SKS's produced for North Vietnam seem to have the same serial number sequence and range. Notice the two below are only 860 numbers off. They are referred to as just SKS.
