There could still be a boatload of one-million-series rifles stored somewhere else in China. Most of Howie's data points are from the Chinese SKS rifles imported from Albania in recent years, and we don't know if those were shipped from China to Albania from just one (perhaps of many) storage facilities, and if they only represent a few series of rifles that were made. We don't know how big a sampling of data we're working with, for example, or if it's skewed in some way.
owners of these rifles, here are some rough projections of production figures that may, or may not be, accurate."
It's the sort of thing that should be qualified with a statement like, "Based upon serial number data provided by U.S. I believe that this info is extrapolated from data gathered by Howie Bearse, and it's the best that we have, but it's still not certain fact. What's a bit more compelling are the rough estimates of production numbers for these rifles. I've personally only seen one of them, and I've talked with a collector whom I believe to be truthful who claims to have another one.
Our faith is rattled because there just don't seem to be any 1-million series serial number guns out there. If an explanation floats past that seems to fit, they are quick to call it a fact. It fills a void in what we know about these early rifles, and some people are very uncomfortable not having a tidy explanation for things. The same thing holds true with the new decision (by somebody) that the 1957 production rifles were the six-digit Jianshe-marked examples. We just have some theories that sound good.** Once again, some people have come up with some compelling theories and explanations, but we simply don't know if they are correct, or not. For some people on another forum to now decide (also rather arbitrarily) that they "are now to be called soviet-sinos" doesn't make that a correct identification. Just to keep this in perspective, the term "ghost" rifle was sort of arbitrarily assigned to certain of the early Chinese SKS rifles that didn't have the Jianshe cartouche on them.
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