Help with ax 41

Hi I'm new here and wanted to introduce myself and I recently picked up this ax 41 code and was wondering if its legitimate or not I'm still trying to learn about these it's been sporterized but I bought it to shoot in club military matches all numbers appear matching with the right markings I would love to get everyone's opinion and look forward to learning about these awesome rifles thanks

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Welcome! I've got 8856 c, so less than a thousand before yours. These were the first rifles I really loved. Too bad about the stock but I look forward to seeing more and checking them out on a larger screen.

What you show is original (minus the alterations)

The barrel is of interest, you show the partial barrel code, "A 40 Rö e/280"; this is a rare steel supplier, Röchling who seemingly only supplied ERMA and SDP, however your code seems to have an alphabetic lot (A) whereas all others known use numeric lots. Can you take a better picture of the barrel code that shows the area before the "A"?

Picture of area in front of the A appears to be a small 7 under the A

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Thanks, very helpful, it was common for the numeric lots to give way to alphabetic lots eventually, though in this steel makers case it had not been recorded before. There are other ERMA's after this rifle with the same steel maker, but lots are not shown, but this is near the end of ERMA production and among the last Röchling blanks recorded (last is a g-block); SDP production rarely uses this steel supplier, but does so up to 1943 production.

Anyway, this trivia regarding steel makers plays no real part in value, but it is rarely seen. Too bad this rifle was sportered, but you should post pictures of the stock, that is critical to any residual value the rifle has... the rearsight is a serious problem of course, but if the barrel contour hasn't been altered it could be replaced. The receiver bridge is another problem, but smaller by comparison. I assume the trigger guard is a goner too?

If you end up looking for a stock, I have an e/280, cupped laminate matching stock with matching hand guard and bands.

Barrel contour appears unaltered trigger guard also seems unaltered and is matching stock also appears matching but was cut down on the front and no handguatf

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Swivels on the bottom and sanded. Argh. Probably toastered