Recent content by S/42

I know where that dou 43 is (Maroochydore)... :) It IS an RC, 100% (not all RC's have the X mark - I've owned more than 14 like this, many with NO RC X, some with a number at the woodline, some not even reblued). $1600 is a little high for an RC even here, but they used to go $800 to $900 a...

Struth, who let more of us in? This place will open your mind and your wallet... Now, go to usedguns.com.au and buy my Brazilian M1935 :)

Here are 2 examples of Bulgarian reissue K98 stocks I took from a Bulgarian eBay seller. All on the left butt side (some have them also on the right)

Stock is original to rifle (keel serial, channel and buttplate). This rack (?) number matches nothing else. It is reminiscent of Vz24 serials, and I have seen Bulgarian stocks sold separately on eBay marked similarly.

The crickets chirp :P

Does this butt serial seem consistent with Bulgarian/Balkan reissue? A bolt-mismatch only S/42 rifle. No other markings, acceptance birds nearly invisible on the stock, well used rifle but with a very good bore. Doesn't seem to fit Yugo scrape and vomit rebuild or Russian Recycle Rubbish (The 3...

There is a fair bit of this rifle screaming podvodná puška

Best shooting WW1 rifle I ever had was DEFINITELY a 1915 Lithgow SMLE III. Very honourable mentions were an Erfurt 1913 Kar98A and a Schilling 1917 Gew98.

Don't recall if I posted this here or not but the G98/40 I had was LK5 marked on the left butt near the buttplate. No signs of any rework I could detect.

Really wish I had something to use my x33 ammo in - I have so much East German and a couple dozen or so WW2 dated stuff back from when I collected ammo. Might rebarrel an RC :)

Had pictures - a hard drive that died instantaneously about 2 years ago saw the demise of those :( (along with a treasure trove of photos). No surface prep except a degrease. I have a phosphated rear sight collar here too - really late one, not an Israeli retread. If you ever need one again...

I rebuilt a byf45 for a guy once, that had mostly zinc phosphated parts. It was missing the triggerguard, and I just so happened to have a correct stamped triggerguard that had been RC'd. Instead of a hot phosphate, I simply dissolved zinc pellets in phosphoric acid (readily available at...

My 43 stamped, 44 assembled byf is also in walnut WaA135 stock, but I put it in it :) (sadly, it is not an all matching gun)

Israeli's renumbered and refinished their own bolts, so I guess it does have an impact on originality and collectibility, moreso pricing. It'd be like putting an RC bolt into a German Honour Guard or BGS rifle - right bolt, but not right. Or a post-war Brno bolt in a G date. Yes, it'll work...

The whole bolt is Russian electro-pencilled - they did that to many (I have had a few, unfortunately). That is NOT an Israeli refurb or reused bolt.