Thanks for posting a picture of my Pre-Ban Norinco 56s Taymoor. I forgot to tell you the original sling is in my range bag @ your place.
Here's the scoop on the AK guys. My dad's friend won a raffle a long time ago @ their work. A guy that worked there had a gun shop on the side and was doing the raffle. Since my dad's friend already had an AK my dad talked him into paying him twice what his raffle ticket cost him and taking the gun home. The guy agreed, and that Norinco sat in my dad's closet in its original box from the sometime in the mid 80's until last fall when he decided he didn't feel like having it around anymore. I guess a guy can only have so many antique or collectors item firearms in one closet or something?
So anyways, I took it, cut the orginal wrappers and zipties off, tore it down to get the cosmolene out, then myself and Taymoor went shooting. The first trigger pull was pretty tough, sentimentally/financially speaking. But it shoots great and reliably hits motionless clays @ 100yards with iron sights. The best parts of having it so far are the "bumpfire" and if I sling it up and walk around a gun show I get at least 1 offer to buy it on every isle i walk down. I almost went hoarse @ the Wanimacker show this past winter LOL.