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    Is this L42 A1 legit??

    The mount and serial # stamp dosen't look right to me





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    That one's been discussed not long ago. It's more or less a mess. I'll let one of the search gurus sort a link.

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    Wonder if you get the ejector screw with it as that's missing or is that an optional extra ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CINDERS View Post
    Wonder if you get the ejector screw with it as that's missing or is that an optional extra ?
    Reduce the price if it has one. 'Cuz it ain't supposed to be there!

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    I ain't one of the gurus but I did some looking. The bracket is what jumped out at me, the filled in area in particular. I'm all but certain there was a discussion here about the best way to go about fixing it a year or two back. Maybe I was looking too far back.
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    Does the bolt head have a plunger and extractor claw set up like say an Omark action, I see by pics in Skennertons book the claw is longer due to the rimless 7.62 so with out say the ejector screw a plunger seems a reasonable assumption as I have never had the opportunity to examine a L42 A1 closely to look at a bolt head.

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    Why would you re stamp the same number in a poorer fashion below the "original" with a larger font TR.
    The action looks right, but the scope bracket certainly doesn't, albeit he makes mention to a change of number in his description
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    Quote Originally Posted by CINDERS View Post
    Does the bolt head have a plunger and extractor claw set up like say an Omark action,
    No; the bolt head looks like a bog-standard No 4 one, except for the special proof marks and different extractor.

    The fixed ejector is built into the left-hand rear feed lip of the 7.62 magazine.

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    Yup, we've been around the block with this one before...

    L42A1 question.

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