Hi Team,
Tony's layout inspired me to get out my Paratroopers and do a quickie layout of factory Bubbas and close clones, which happen to be some of my most cherished commercial SKS rifles. All of them the bolt faces and hammers look new, hardly if ever fired since built. There are some kinda unique units, such as 2 importer-built blade rifles but on pinned chassis (when you could have order them made that way), the blonde blade has a sling with different style keepers. One Para I put a French tickler on because it matched the wood. The rifle below it has a black bolt so I added a black sling to compliment it. The scoped Navy Arms Cowboys Companion came to me in 2 different parts buys months apart, from the same seller, so it's actually a complete original CC. It has a different style CAPCO recoil pad option, slip-on screwed-on and an off-set cheek riser matches the scope. I took the original Red Star scope off, to save it for posterity, and installed a Leapers fixed 6X32. The next rifle is a very scarce KSI Hunter in wood, without the nowhere rail and inletting for it in the stock. That rifle also has importer installed NSTAR brake and CAPCO recoil pad option with the bayo slot filled in. I'm fairly certain it's factory as the finish is evenly crappy. All in all the very cleanest Para mod. The 2 clones are KSI Hunters but had the nowhere rails, and their matching numbered stocks inletted for the rails. Luckily both rails were attached with screws and easily removed. One KSI Hunter went in a black Ramline (not KSI branded) to clone a Stealth Para. The mag matches the Ramline stock profile perfect. With the other clone, I had a KSI branded OD green Butler Creek, so I cloned a faux Parka Para. Neither of the clones are parked and I'm not spending the ducat$ to do it. I'm not trying to fool anybody and these are on the never sell list. The clones are actually cleaner than the factory jobs because of the rod guides being completely removed. Another Para I tried to put in a jungle stock (un-numbered wood) but couldn't get an acceptable fit or HG match. I had another nice spiker but I gave it to my buddy for a tranny installed in my ZR2. If I wasn't in Kali I'd have an M or/and a D. Anyway, these are them, enjoy Darin, PAX
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I built a couple home-grown Paratrooper units using P50s and cut a couple to 18.5" and used just the front site globes.
