42 1940, Matching Luftwaffe

A very nice example, and all matching except the unnumbered front sight blade. As always, comments welcome.

Thanks

Very nice rifle. I would love to own that one.

Nice looking 42 1940! Is the front sight blade unnumbered? Possible armorers front sight blade?

Beautiful in that light!

Not minty, but a nice undorked with combat carried rifle.
I love it Thanks for sharing.

Very nice. Glad you included the nos. on the screws and capture screws.

I really like this rifle. Also got that 'P' mark like the WaA135 marked stock on my depot reworked S/42 G.

Good rifle !

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Very nice rifle but I would hold off on the "minty" classification.
Basically minty would mean in high 90s condition, bordering on factory new.

Thank you.

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Good that this worked out.
The term "mint" and "minty" is way overused and also abused.
These monikers are especially abused by dealers.

Thats the reason I posted my response.

In my large group of the Mauser company rifles, I could count on one hand the number of "mint" rifles I have.
Bounce that down to excellent and you need a bunch of hands to count them.

I will endeavor to establish a grading system pertinent to this forum.
Input from our membership is recommended and encouraged.
I am not sure if this was brought up previously, but if so please post a link.

The difference between "mint" and "factory new" is negligible but should be considered.
I have 4 rifles that I consider factory new - Portuguese 1941, byf43, byf44 'l' block, and late svwMB.
I have several others that would fall into the mint category - two 39 dated 42 codes and
my recently acquired S/243G.

So there you have it - 7 rifles out of very large grouping.

Raven26 said:

Thank you, I appreciate your response. I, too, deleted my response. Cheers and happy collecting.

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Thanks Raven for being so cool about my ridiculous behavior.
Many cheers to you too.

Thanks Bruce for taking the time to define this Mint, Minty and Factory new thing.

A really nice 40 !
Thanks for sharing.

maybe not Minty, but I'll definitely call dibs!

Very nice rifle Raven. you do have a nice collection