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New Acquisition 42/1939 Luft

USCS03

USCS03

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So I picked this up locally yesterday. The floorplate and follower are both armorer spare parts. The 10" cleaning rod is marked S and K on the other side with a WaA proof. The trigger/sear are WaA 63 marked and have been on this hog for a very long time and are not matching to the rifle. Everything else to include the capture screws are right as rain. Sling is marked and dated 1944. I am not sure how to correct this but every time I post pics they appear sideways!! Let me know what you think about this old gal.
 

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I think it looks great!! Excellent all around I wish I could find this kinda stuff local. In my opinion the follower and FP are likely collector improvements added later, nothing I would turn my nose up at though! Nice luft!
 
Thanks. Seems like an honest combat carried piece. You may well be right about the follower and floorplate. To my eye the finish wear is very consistent so if the elderly gentleman did replace them it was done long long ago. He had only two rifles, this and a dou44 hh block and is not what I would consider a collector. How much would the armorer spare follower and floorplate effect the value?
 
Nice rifle. I'm trying to complete a run of MO and good rifles from 1939 and 1940 are difficult to find. I've literally never seen a 1939 that wasn't Luft marked. Seems the great majority went there.
 
Indeed Nathan seen many Luft marked rifles in that year. Traded my 42 1939 Luft off last year for a nice Garand. MO always had good quality workmanship.

But I can't collect them all so I'm sticking with Erma as my primarily focus. Next K98k for me will be a nice 1930s 27 code don't have one of those.

Nice rifle USCS03 never pass off on a good MO made piece I say.
 
Thanks guys. It was an easy decision once I saw it in hand. I wonder what happened to the original follower and floorplate. I have a 41 Luft in laminate so it was nice to find a walnut example. To your point I haven't seen many 1939 dated MO rifles that aren't luft marked.
 
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Maybe 15-20% ?? Really kinda hard to say. It's going to be up to the individual, some would see it as a m/m rifle now, others that are more reasonable might not let it affect their valuation much at all. I think for me personally around 10-15%.
 
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