Did AK's originally come in these crates? (56K death)

They have some crates like this at the local surplus store, just wondering if anyone here knows what was originally in these things. It wasn't mosins.. I'm thinking SKS's, but I'm hoping AK's.

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Check out DANS AMMO/SPORTING GOODS web page,they look just like the SKS boxes on thier site.Looks as if there are a few of the center boards missing from the boxes in your pics.These boxes held 2 rows of SKS'S one on top of the other.The smaller spaces held the ammo pouch,cleaning kits,slings and manuals.td



http://www.dansammo.com/images/inv/yugo.asp


PHOTO'S PROPERTY OF DANS AMMO:)

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The language is Serbian. Those are probably SKS's from the former Yugoslavia.

As tdbrowm1969 says, the crates you show are SKS crates from Serbia. I've handled hundreds of those crates in both green and natural finish.

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Dude :O! When I first saw the crates I had a flash back to basic training 1975 @ FT. Jackson SC. Delta 10 2, over looking Tank Hill.

They had this more or less same crates fill with sand bags simulating Mortar rounds me and another dude had to hump this things cross country in xx amount of time.

I still have not so fond memories of Little Egypt = Olympic pool size sand box :(.

Yup, Zastava M59/66 crates. Interestingly, the labels on the boxes says [among other things] that the rifles were conserved in grease 8.5.2004, which means May 8th, 2004, and that they do not need to be packed with new grease until May 8th, 2014, i.e. that the grease shall keep the guns protected for ten years. The Cyrillic 'пап 7,62' written on the labels is short for 'PoluAutomatska Puska 7,62', and means 'Semi-Automatic Rifle, 7,62'. Both the Yugoslavian M59-series SKS rifles and the new semi-automatic Zastava M70-based M43/M67-caliber Zastava PAP are commonly reffered to as 'Zastava PAP 7,62'. The Zastava M76 sniper rifle is also sometimes referred to as 'Zastava PAP 7,92'.

The high serial numbers on the labels, listed under the 'фаб. броj MC' printing seems to confirm that these are crates for M59/66 rifles, since the M70-based Zastava PAP 7,62 hasn't been produced in such high numbers.


-Dan-

im drooling all over..

Sure wish I would've spent a few grand and bought a couple crates of yugo sks's when they first came in now.

Damnit.

I've always wanted to buy one of those crates (full of rifles), and then put a glass top over it and make it a coffee table!