norseman007
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Thanks for the tips mto7464 and i hope to use this rifle as the foundation for a k98 collection.
pisgah, i was referring to mackstorms quote. after some research i saw on ycgg that is where mackstorm got his figure. according to ycgg dou was the second highest manufacturer in 43. does that seem right to you?
Are you quoting BOTW's numbers? I think likely none of the manufacturers ever achieved one million rifles in a year. When Law made up his estimates in BOTW, he worked on the assumption that all serial number letter blocks were completed before moving to the next letter block. This system of estimation worked fine for the four digit serial number blocks, but once Mauser Oberndorf switched to their five digit numbering system in 1943, there is no evidence that they ever completed any of the five digit number blocks. It seems these letter blocks corresponded to months of the year and just a ballpark guess on my part, but I would say they averaged around 60,000 rifles per month.
Interesting. I have a byf43 serial# 3304 ll (double L). Wouldn't this be the 103,304 rifle completed for December 1943?
All matching, NIM, not RC.
byf 43 serial number 3304 LL could also be a byf 43 receiver assembled into a rifle at the tail end of the byf 42 serial number run. I don't have any serial number data for byf 42 immediately at hand but would guess that the LL block was around the end of that year's production.
Barrel code is R wa135. I did not see a year. Pictures later this evening.