flynaked
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I have even mentioned that in my starting posts that it has 26 proofs on the receiver. Didn't you read it? Anyway, does this distinctively mean it is an AR41 rifle?
Flynaked, noone would scrub the receiver markings that ugly and then fully professionally add perfectly seated and screw slot aligned bases. This makes no sense. The bases were installed prior to the receiver being scrubbed.
Yes it’s a Borsigwalde, not necessarily 1941, I was presuming that based on the fact that it had a random AR prefix in the dovetail serials, this may not be true though. 1941 is the last year that 3x e26 RR inspections would have been used, could be all the way back to a 1939 Borsigwalde though. Due to the high location and spacing of these e26’s it is without a doubt a Borsigwalde, if it were a BLM the last year for that would be 1938 and they are always proofed closer to the wood line of which yours is not, it would also have a process number stamped on the lower forward receiver ring if it were a BLM.
Your presumption that only one smith would have done all of the work on a particular rifle IF it indeed were a sporter is not necessarily true. Most smiths had specialized jobs and only completed one specific component of a given rifle, ie stock maker, actioner etc. Please explore for yourself the term coined in Suhl that alludes to this specific kind of production, “Rucksack-Büchsenmacher”.
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