how's it going guys welcome back to the pilot patriot channel as you can see behind me i bought
a new gun and today we're doing two things that i've never done before so this rifle that i bought
is a surplus rifle it's been stored in a crate for decades with a bunch of other rifles now you guys
could probably already tell from the title of the video but this is going to be a chinese type 56
sks and i ordered it from palmetto state armory uh they have a bunch of imports that came in
in crates and the reason this is different than anything i've ever done before is because this
is sight unseen i have no idea what the condition of this rifle is going to be you place the order
they pull one out of the crate and they ship it to you so i'm really excited to see what we have here
there's really no telling now the other thing we're about to do is an unboxing you have never
seen an unboxing on this channel before now i'm going to be honest with you guys i did take a peek
but i'm about to give you guys the big reveal and we're going to take a look at this rifle and see
what we think but before we do that if you haven't done it yet guys make sure you hit that subscribe
button down below hit that notification bell and give us a thumbs up we really appreciate that
as you can tell i already have my gloves on i'm ready to go because i know this thing is
going to be just caked in cosmoline so let's stop wasting time and let's see what we got
all right guys this is it the big reveal let's see what we got
wow all right
yeah she is nasty wow look at all that cosmoline i'll get you guys in here so you can get a little
bit closer look but she's nasty but overall just taking a look at this thing it's not in that bad
a condition still got a fair amount of the bluing on here it's not overly worn on the metal parts
the stock obviously does have some dents and dings and things like that it's certainly
not gonna be a beauty queen but at first glance i'm not seeing any cracks or anything like that
no trench art that i can see actually got a pretty nice grain pattern there underneath
all that cosmoline caked in here all right now one thing i know you guys are going to
want to know let's go ahead and get in here and take a look and see if we have
matching serial numbers so i know you guys may not be able to see that there so this is factory 26
this chinese writing here says type 56 and let's take a look at that serial number the
serial number starts with 13 million now from my research i know that that means that this rifle
was manufactured in 1969 so it was right in the middle of vietnam now let's see here we have 13
million zero three six seven five nine let's take a look at the stock here three six seven five nine
let's go over on the bottom of the trigger guard there you guys may not be able to see that but
we have three six seven five nine let's move over on the bottom of the magazine there three
six seven five nine right here on the top of the bolt we also have three six seven five
nine and we have one more place we can look here and that does say three six seven five nine so i'm
very happy about that guys we have an all matching serial number gun now it's my understanding that's
not uncommon with these chinese imports being sold by palmetto state right now these guns have
been in storage for at least 20 years and it's likely that a lot of these were put in storage
shortly after the vietnam war and have not seen daylight since then so that is very cool i've got
to get you guys in here closer so you guys can see this cosmoline y'all just sit tight for a second
all right guys now let's get you in here a little bit closer oh yeah man this thing is just
caked with cosmoline check that out
it is everywhere look at that and grab one of my q-tips here and show you oh yeah that is tasty
and it is like that just all the way down the rifle
look at that just caked up there on the bayonet
and really that's a good thing guys this cosmoline is what has preserved this rifle
for so long this rifle has been in storage for literally decades and that cosmoline is what has
preserved it and made it so that these didn't just turn into rusted pieces of junk over the years
let's take a look open that bolt if i can it's a little slippery with all the cosmoline
oh yeah take a look in there guys see if i can show you guys the bore
oh yeah just nasty a couple uh good size dings there in the stock
couple maybe right there and i know what you guys are thinking you're thinking man this
is a rough looking rifle but actually once you get some of this cosmoline rubbed off
it's actually not bad at all there's definitely some battle scars definitely
definitely plenty of dents and dings and things like that but really to me i think that's cool
all that character really just shows the history of the gun turn it over here on the other side
yeah not bad at all there are no cracks or anything like that in stock that i can see
like i said before the blueing on here it's obviously not a hundred percent
but it's not bad at all it doesn't have near as much wear as some that i've seen
of course we have our import mark here i can't really read that right now but i will get in
here and uh once i get this thing cleaned up i'll give you guys a better look at it
oh yeah that cosmoline all over the site there
but yeah overall guys i am thrilled with this
i'm very happy with the results um now a lot of guys like the trench art stuff and some
of the guns coming out of palmetto state do have carvings and things like that people's
names carved in them and a lot of guys think that's cool i do like the battle worn look
i like all the character and dents and dings and things like that but i am honestly glad i
did not get one with the trench art i think this thing is just beautiful the way it is
very happy with that now what i'm gonna do guys is i'm gonna get in here and i'm going to clean this
thing up i will be filming while i'm doing that i may not do a full tutorial on how to clean off the
cosmoline but i will take you guys with me while i'm doing that and let you guys know what this
thing is going to look like when i'm done with it oh here we go there is one thing i'm noticing here
a little patch in the wood there it looks like a repair in the stock very clean very well done
patch so i'm not worried about that at all all right guys now let's get to cleaning this thing up
all right guys first thing we're doing is just spraying everything down with some mineral spirits
and wiping off all that excess cosmoline then we're going to go ahead and start
disassembling the gun starting with the dust cover then the recoil spring and the bolt
next we're going to take off the trigger group the magazine and then the stock
go ahead and get that gas tube off of there and then just spray everything down
and wipe everything the best we can with that mineral spirits
i'm gonna get as much cosmoline off in this step as i can before i put it into the mineral spirit
bath
we're just going to put everything in a big tub and we're going to soak it in mineral spirits
we're going to leave it that way for about 10 minutes
and while we're waiting we're going to go ahead and put this stock inside of
a black trash bag and put it out in the sun so it can sweat out all that
cosmoline after 10 minutes i'm going to go back and just brush everything that's in
the mineral spirits just to get off any that i see one thing that's really important is that
when you take these parts out of the mineral spirits they will almost instantly start to
get some surface rust on them so you're going to want to have some gun oil handy and spray
everything down really good with that gun oil as you're taking it out of the mineral spirits
and that mineral spirits did an awesome job guys of getting these parts clean
they got off pretty much everything we are going to go back and just double check that we got in
those tiny nooks and crannies but for the most part that mineral spirits really did the job now
we're ready to take our stock out of the bag and wipe everything down and then we can go ahead and
assemble the rifle we do want to go ahead and wipe off all the excess oil while we're reassembling it
so
all right guys that is it for our unboxing and cleaning of the sks she's nice and clean
she functions flawlessly and guys i could not be happier um one thing i did want to mention to you
guys that mineral spirits really dried the wood out pretty well so i did end up going back and
putting some true oil on there a couple coats of that and that turned out great i think the stock
looks really good obviously still has plenty of battle scars and stuff like that a little
worse here around the finger grooves on that side but overall guys i'm very happy with this if you
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