*** November 2006 Purchases ***

[Badger]

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[Claven2]

Ok, well this is actually a late October purchase, but I'm only getting around to unpacking it and cleaning it up in November

More pics to follow soon, but it's a Tikka barelled Finnish civil Guard M28

[Claven2]

Allrighty, just pulled the trigger on another M38 carbine. It's a common 1943 Izhevsk M38, but it's stocked with a rare M38 (not M44) wartime (correct 1943 vintage) laminate stock without the wrist crossbolt and without M44 bayonet inletting

Thanks P&S! I lucked out - turns out this rifle was incorrectly listed on the P&S website as having a normal hardwood stock (stoc knumber PS479) so it languished there for months until I asked Jean to hand-select me an M38 (as opposed to M44) stocked rifle. He didn't think he had any, but he did some checking and came up with this beauty!



The only real negatives are the import marking and usual M38 counterbore. Oh well, I can live with that for such a comparatively rare M38 variant

[derghost]

Claven2,
Does your new 38 stock have screwed on escutcheons? The 38 with a correct laminate furniture that I had put back until tomorrow evening has no escutcheons in the butt and only a liner in the front. That makes it actual war time correct? Thanks

[Skippy]

In October I picked up this all matching 1944 Wather G43 which had been badly cut down sometime in the sixties:




But I managed to get a fairly good deal on a nice reproduction stock set, Brazillian Mauser trapdoor buttplate, and a barrel band set (not shown), which I recieved and installed for November :



Just a couple more pics to show off the nice laminate:



I've got another juicy German rifle to post, just as soon as it arrives. Stay tuned

[Stevo]

Very nice Skippy! Looks great in the new wood.

[Claven2]

Hmm... what are the odds of finding a proper buttplate? Didn;t the originals hinge vertically?

derghost: I don't know what escutcheons it has as I haven't seen it in the flesh yet (pics from seller). In reality though, pressed escutcheons were starting to be used right about the time laminate stocks came out. I've never seen a laminate stock without escutcheons - only birch stocks. Also, no laminates have screwed in escutcheons, always either pressed or folded in my experience.

Bear in mind too - alot of wartime stocks probably got new escutcheons post-war.

[tiriaq]

Its looking MUCH better now!

[Claven2]

By the way - who's making the repro G43 wood?

[Skippy]

Claven2,
Real buttplates come up now and again on ebay etc, but they usually close for $200-300USD, depending how hard they get bid up in the last few seconds. I would have liked to get an entire original wood set, but that would have run me more than the rest of the rifl cost me.

The stock is a laminate repro, made to an almost perfect pattern, same 2mm laminate and same overall fit and finish. It's made by a Japanese company called Shoei, who used to produce whole reproduction rifles. A fellow in Holland hapened to snatch up a dozen or so stocks before Shoei stopped putting them together and is selling them for a pretty reasonable price, advertising mainly on the GK43forums. From the Netherlands it got to Toronto in 10 days flat, and the Walther action dropped right into it.

The fellow who sells these IS NOT Adrian Slupik, who's been guilty of taking upwards of 3 months to actually deliver what he advertises. Adrian's stocks are inferior and not worth the hassle.

If anyone is interested you can PM me and I'll give you the email of they fellow selling these good stocks, he might have a few left.