Description
Item Description
Bryant Ridge Auction Company is pleased to present this amazing semi-automatic rifle today for a penny start auction, this is the Zastava Yugoslavian M59/66!
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SPECIFICATIONS:
Manufacturer: Zastava Yugoslavia
Model: M59/66
Serial: F159219
Range of Manufacture: 1961-1967
Caliber: 7.62x39
Finish: Black
Barrel Length: 24" to the end of the Grenade Launching Muzzle Device
Optics/Sights: Hooded post front with Adjustable tangent rear, Weatherby Variable 2x to 7x optic, foldable grenade sight
Stock/Grips: Smooth walnut stock with folding bayonet
Action: Semi-Auto
Markings: Standard / Right side barrel stamped "YUGOSLAVIA MOD. 59/66 7.62X39 N.I.LLC W.HURLEY,NY"
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
Zastava M59/66 PAP, also known as papovka, is a Yugoslav licensed version of Soviet SKS semi-automatic rifle. The nickname "papovka" is a derived from PAP, the abbreviation for poluautomatska puška, Serbian for "semi-automatic rifle".
Yugoslavia's defense industry started planning the development and production of a new self-loading rifle design during the 1950s, namely to replace the bolt-action Zastava M48 then in service with the Yugoslav People's Army. In 1959, Yugoslavia acquired the rights to manufacture the Soviet SKS semi-automatic carbine under license. Limited production of the SKS commenced in 1961 at Preduzece 44 (Enterprise Facility 44), which was a successor to the former Yugoslav Military Technical Institute in Kragujevac and had undergone an unprecedented expansion in 1953 to better accommodate mass production of various weapons. Aside from this preliminary production run, however, no SKS carbines were produced at the Kragujevac facility again until 1964, when the weapon type finally entered serialized mass production. The earliest examples of the SKS manufactured in Kragujevac under the auspices of Zastava received the designation M59 PAP and initially resembled late Soviet pattern carbines, albeit without the chrome-lined barrels characteristic to the latter. However, the weapon's design had been much more heavily modified by 1966 and most subsequent examples were known as the M59/66 PAP.
The Zastava M59/66 PAP is identical in function and operation to the Soviet SKS in nearly every respect, except its ability to launch 22mm rifle grenades from an integral grenade launcher spigot mounted at the front of the barrel. The rifle has been fitted with a folding ladder sight for use in launching grenades. This sight is normally locked into a folded position atop the gas block. Prior to firing a rifle grenade, the sight is unlocked by depressing a switch on the gas port. This action also closes off the gas port in the barrel, which prevents the semi-automatic action from being cycled while a grenade is being launched. The sight ladder may then be raised and locked into the vertical position.
The M59/66 was fitted with an unusual bayonet mount which also doubled as the mount for the front sight and the folding grenade launcher sight. The original Soviet blade bayonet as standard to the SKS had to be replaced by a unique Yugoslav bayonet to accommodate the new mount placement.
Return Policy:
We gladly offer a 3 day unfired inspection policy from the time that the firearm is delivered to your FFL. Refunds are available for all qualifying orders.
Model: M59/66
Serial: F159219
Range of Manufacture: 1961-1967
Caliber: 7.62x39
Finish: Black
Barrel Length: 24" to the end of the Grenade Launching Muzzle Device
Optics/Sights: Hooded post front with Adjustable tangent rear, Weatherby Variable 2x to 7x optic, foldable grenade sight
Stock/Grips: Smooth walnut stock with folding bayonet
Action: Semi-Auto
Markings: Standard / Right side barrel stamped "YUGOSLAVIA MOD. 59/66 7.62X39 N.I.LLC W.HURLEY,NY"
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
Zastava M59/66 PAP, also known as papovka, is a Yugoslav licensed version of Soviet SKS semi-automatic rifle. The nickname "papovka" is a derived from PAP, the abbreviation for poluautomatska puška, Serbian for "semi-automatic rifle".
Yugoslavia's defense industry started planning the development and production of a new self-loading rifle design during the 1950s, namely to replace the bolt-action Zastava M48 then in service with the Yugoslav People's Army. In 1959, Yugoslavia acquired the rights to manufacture the Soviet SKS semi-automatic carbine under license. Limited production of the SKS commenced in 1961 at Preduzece 44 (Enterprise Facility 44), which was a successor to the former Yugoslav Military Technical Institute in Kragujevac and had undergone an unprecedented expansion in 1953 to better accommodate mass production of various weapons. Aside from this preliminary production run, however, no SKS carbines were produced at the Kragujevac facility again until 1964, when the weapon type finally entered serialized mass production. The earliest examples of the SKS manufactured in Kragujevac under the auspices of Zastava received the designation M59 PAP and initially resembled late Soviet pattern carbines, albeit without the chrome-lined barrels characteristic to the latter. However, the weapon's design had been much more heavily modified by 1966 and most subsequent examples were known as the M59/66 PAP.
The Zastava M59/66 PAP is identical in function and operation to the Soviet SKS in nearly every respect, except its ability to launch 22mm rifle grenades from an integral grenade launcher spigot mounted at the front of the barrel. The rifle has been fitted with a folding ladder sight for use in launching grenades. This sight is normally locked into a folded position atop the gas block. Prior to firing a rifle grenade, the sight is unlocked by depressing a switch on the gas port. This action also closes off the gas port in the barrel, which prevents the semi-automatic action from being cycled while a grenade is being launched. The sight ladder may then be raised and locked into the vertical position.
The M59/66 was fitted with an unusual bayonet mount which also doubled as the mount for the front sight and the folding grenade launcher sight. The original Soviet blade bayonet as standard to the SKS had to be replaced by a unique Yugoslav bayonet to accommodate the new mount placement.
Return Policy:
We gladly offer a 3 day unfired inspection policy from the time that the firearm is delivered to your FFL. Refunds are available for all qualifying orders.
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Return Policy
We gladly offer a 3 day unfired inspection policy from the time that the firearm is delivered to your FFL. Refunds are available for all qualifying orders.
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