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Farmall20

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Hello all, I’m looking for some expert advice here on a k43 a friend has for sale or trade I don’t know much about. First off it’s marked qve 45 with a threaded muzzle and an odd looking buttplate. I have heard of a few with threaded muzzles but not sure about the buttplate. I have attached a few pictures to make it easier. Any and all help would be appreciated thanks!
 
Those pictures are terrible, it's impossible to tell anything about the rifle. You need to either upload them directly to the forums or host them as something like am imgur album.

Squinting at the buttplate it almost looks like a flat K98k buttplate?? There's clearly something screwy going on with the stock, as terrible as the pictures are I'm pretty sure that someone carved on it to make a more sporter-profile pistol grip.
 
Stock looks to have been lightly sporterized (note the relief where the comb meets the wrist) butt plate was replaced with something commercial.
 
the photos are super small... but, there is a small window when they were using up the threaded barrels they stopped using early on. Not the first 45 dated rifle ive seen with a threaded barrel..
 
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mauser99 said:
the photos are super small... but, there is a small window when they were using up the threaded barrels they stopped using early on. Not the first 45 dated rifle ive seen with a threaded barrel
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Cyrano4747 said:
Those pictures are terrible, it's impossible to tell anything about the rifle. You need to either upload them directly to the forums or host them as something like am imgur album.

Squinting at the buttplate it almost looks like a flat K98k buttplate?? There's clearly something screwy going on with the stock, as terrible as the pictures are I'm pretty sure that someone carved on it to make a more sporter-profile pistol grip.
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Sorry for the crappy pictures I’m not really tech savvy. Thanks for the information on the k43.
 
Farmall20 said:
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Sorry for the crappy pictures I’m not really tech savvy. Thanks for the information on the k43.
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Either attach them to a post here on the forums (there's a button for that right below where you type) or use a free image hosting service like imgur. Putting it up here is preferred to prevent images getting lost in the future, but either is better than nothing.
 
The reason for the insistence on the photos is that a lot of what is going to make that gun worthwhile or not is going to depend on what they show. Do the SNs match on the major parts? Has anything besides that stock been altered? The difference between a nice condition, all matching gun that some moron cut up the stock on vs. a mixmaster that also has a humped stock could be $1000 or more. Perhaps much more if there are other, major issues. One is a project worth tackling as a restoration (having a competent woodworker try and fix the stock), the other is something you buy cheap as a shooter, maybe drop into a reproduction stock, or just part out to fix other guns.
 
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