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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