Hi All,
I first shared this barrelled receiver maybe 5-6 years ago. It was a lucky pick-up on GunBroker and I believe one of only two known from this location. The receiver is spare Walther with a MB barrel and rear sight base. The rifle came as an ugly mismatched RC-- as in someone took more desirable parts off, reassembled with other RC parts and resold (Funny, they left the desirable receiver!)
Over the years, I've amassed a pretty big collection of armorer's spares, so I elected to "restore" the barrelled receiver with unnumbered or unused armorer parts. I had most of what I needed, but did need to improvise in a couple places. I know it's not a perfect restoration, as the parts would be serialized, but it's close and turned out well.
I was originally going to use an e/18 Menzel stock on this, but that went to an Lza4 project. I was able to purchase a really nice Erma elm armorer's stock from Flynaked. It's been around the block and I've seen it referenced on the forum before. It really looked nice all told. I had a spare walnut handguard in my bin that had an "elm-ish" look to it. I'm not holding my breath on finding an elm handguard, unless someone is sitting on one.
The preponderance of parts are MO armorer spares, which include rear sight components, bolt shroud, cocking piece, firing pin, safety, extractor, trigger group, bayonet lug, bolt release, follower and band spring and rear screw.
The bolt body is e/26 marked one I've had in my box for a while and was either scrubbed very well or was actually a unnumbered spare . I can't quite tell.
Trigger guard is an unnumbered Gustloff "d" one I've been sitting on and will use until I find something better. The Floorplate came off a czech 98/22, but had the correct SN so it's on until I find a better alternative. Front screw is simply a later unmmarked one. Lock screws are e/63.
Anyway, it's not a perfect restoration, and but one that at least makes sense and brings a little more life to a pretty scarce barrelled receiver.
I first shared this barrelled receiver maybe 5-6 years ago. It was a lucky pick-up on GunBroker and I believe one of only two known from this location. The receiver is spare Walther with a MB barrel and rear sight base. The rifle came as an ugly mismatched RC-- as in someone took more desirable parts off, reassembled with other RC parts and resold (Funny, they left the desirable receiver!)
Over the years, I've amassed a pretty big collection of armorer's spares, so I elected to "restore" the barrelled receiver with unnumbered or unused armorer parts. I had most of what I needed, but did need to improvise in a couple places. I know it's not a perfect restoration, as the parts would be serialized, but it's close and turned out well.
I was originally going to use an e/18 Menzel stock on this, but that went to an Lza4 project. I was able to purchase a really nice Erma elm armorer's stock from Flynaked. It's been around the block and I've seen it referenced on the forum before. It really looked nice all told. I had a spare walnut handguard in my bin that had an "elm-ish" look to it. I'm not holding my breath on finding an elm handguard, unless someone is sitting on one.
The preponderance of parts are MO armorer spares, which include rear sight components, bolt shroud, cocking piece, firing pin, safety, extractor, trigger group, bayonet lug, bolt release, follower and band spring and rear screw.
The bolt body is e/26 marked one I've had in my box for a while and was either scrubbed very well or was actually a unnumbered spare . I can't quite tell.
Trigger guard is an unnumbered Gustloff "d" one I've been sitting on and will use until I find something better. The Floorplate came off a czech 98/22, but had the correct SN so it's on until I find a better alternative. Front screw is simply a later unmmarked one. Lock screws are e/63.
Anyway, it's not a perfect restoration, and but one that at least makes sense and brings a little more life to a pretty scarce barrelled receiver.
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