So, way back in 2007 I owned quite a few SKSs. When My youngest daughter got married that year I decided to give the new SIL one of the SKSs as a gift 'to take good care and protect my daughter' as jokingly put it at that time. He was military and ended up in Iraq, some of you oldies may remember this story, and after his return suffered quite a bit with PTSD and ended up getting killed in an altercation with police. Basically it was suicide by Cop.
All of his firearms were confiscated and in evidence for some time and then eventually returned to my daughter. She gave all of the firearms that he previously owned back to his family and stuck the SKS in the basement buried with his other stuff not wanting to deal with it. Fast forward to about 2 1/2 years ago, having moved and remarried, she asked if I would finish out their basement. Part of the deal was they were going to give me back the SKS because they didn't want it around. As we wound down the work they were slightly overbudget and had a plumbing bill to take care of. I knew the Plumber and worked out that he would take the SKS instead of cash. Well, I never found this out until a week or so ago, but he got sick and never finished his work so cancelled the last of the bill. They eventually got someone else in there and paid them cash. I was over last week doing some more work in another part of the basement and out they came with the SKS asking me if I wanted it.
So, after 13 years apart I now have back in my possession an early Chinese 0138 factory, all numbers matching, SKS. side sling loop and spike bayonet. Complete with sling, cleaning kit, ammo rig, stripper clips and some ammo. Only issue is the stock is cracked pretty bad and I'm not sure what I want to do with it. Sadly, Tom(Galahad) is no longer around to send it to.
