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Picked up this 1939 ERMA this weekend at the first gunshow of the season...took a look at it Friday night, and decided to jump on it Saturday morning. The first thing that caught my eye was the marking on the buttplate, looked like an HZa mark, but it was pretty rough...otherwise seemed like a straight up bolt mismatch.
I had a 1939 ERMA, an "l" block, but it was a bolt mismatch too, plus some other mismatched stuff, so I figured I would upgrade...
Anyway, got it home, took it apart, cleaned it up a bit, and here is what I found...
So it appears to be a Depot Rework...barrel and stock replaced. The barrel has a different font for the letter suffix, and also the 0,2 mark under the woodline.
The stock is interesting...buttplate numbered to match, marked HZaGW, and an E/GW3 WaA...takedown lug is marked on both sides SUWW 1942, and E/Su29...that might be a single small Eagle WaA on the side, but its to worn/badly stamped to tell, but it sure looks like one. It is serialed to match on the keel and in the channel....note the grease still along the edges between the stock and metal...I did not remove it...
Interesting stuff going on with the bolt. Its all mismatched, but the safety and shroud were ground and re-numbered, looks German done to me, they match each other. The firing pin, cocking piece, and extractor all match each other, none of it matches the bolt body, but all are E/63 marked...don't think it was part of the re-work (since I would think they would have numbered it all to the rifle..) but interesting nonetheless.
Odd right receiver too, looks like at least one overstamped proof, and there is a "7" at the end of the string...
Barrel code is Geco 31 40 Ru...
Rear sight parts are all numbered to match...would they have numbered them on the replacement barrel, or strip them off the original barrel? They are all E/280 marked...
Front sight post is also numbered to match.
She is a little worn, and the receiver seems a little pitted, I am wondering if it was a battlefield recovery after/during one of the early campaigns....and the barrel and stock was trashed?
In any case, I thought it was an interesting piece with a story to tell, and while my other 1939 ERMA was in better cosmetic shape, this rifle is an upgrade...
Plus I sold the other one for $600 Sunday morning, and used the $$$ to pick up a real, matching, USGI Stevens 520-30 Trench gun...someone sanded the crap out of the buttstock, so it need to be replaced, and its missing the handguard/adapter but it came with a repro adapter that is very well made, and will do for now. $550 total...which was a steal...
Anyway...pics....
I had a 1939 ERMA, an "l" block, but it was a bolt mismatch too, plus some other mismatched stuff, so I figured I would upgrade...
Anyway, got it home, took it apart, cleaned it up a bit, and here is what I found...
So it appears to be a Depot Rework...barrel and stock replaced. The barrel has a different font for the letter suffix, and also the 0,2 mark under the woodline.
The stock is interesting...buttplate numbered to match, marked HZaGW, and an E/GW3 WaA...takedown lug is marked on both sides SUWW 1942, and E/Su29...that might be a single small Eagle WaA on the side, but its to worn/badly stamped to tell, but it sure looks like one. It is serialed to match on the keel and in the channel....note the grease still along the edges between the stock and metal...I did not remove it...
Interesting stuff going on with the bolt. Its all mismatched, but the safety and shroud were ground and re-numbered, looks German done to me, they match each other. The firing pin, cocking piece, and extractor all match each other, none of it matches the bolt body, but all are E/63 marked...don't think it was part of the re-work (since I would think they would have numbered it all to the rifle..) but interesting nonetheless.
Odd right receiver too, looks like at least one overstamped proof, and there is a "7" at the end of the string...
Barrel code is Geco 31 40 Ru...
Rear sight parts are all numbered to match...would they have numbered them on the replacement barrel, or strip them off the original barrel? They are all E/280 marked...
Front sight post is also numbered to match.
She is a little worn, and the receiver seems a little pitted, I am wondering if it was a battlefield recovery after/during one of the early campaigns....and the barrel and stock was trashed?
In any case, I thought it was an interesting piece with a story to tell, and while my other 1939 ERMA was in better cosmetic shape, this rifle is an upgrade...
Plus I sold the other one for $600 Sunday morning, and used the $$$ to pick up a real, matching, USGI Stevens 520-30 Trench gun...someone sanded the crap out of the buttstock, so it need to be replaced, and its missing the handguard/adapter but it came with a repro adapter that is very well made, and will do for now. $550 total...which was a steal...
Anyway...pics....
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