Original Matching M38 Carbine
Of course this one was captured in Finland!I bought this carbine several years ago, off auction from a collector who was getting out of the MN collecting hobby. These are pretty uncommon & lately...
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Looking at one of your post and picture layouts is always so nice and relaxing. Is this from the MB AKA Gunmaker collection? Really nice rifle with all that is supposed to ne there in place. Thanks...
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You are welcome! Merry Christmas! Yup Bill, this is one of Gunmakers items I picked up - I remember years ago when he would post his guns here on the forum, boy he picked up some nice firearms! Pahtu.
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Yeah I remember all the great stuff he had too. I also remember how certain people would bait him all the time on original finishes and I would not be surprised if that was one of the reasons he sold...
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Yes Gunmaker had some nice stuff, he did get baited by trolls & I can see if that was one reason why he got out of the collecting hobby - He sure did have a nice collection of M27s and 28-30s. I...
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A great example of an all-original M38! The brass hand guard caps are always a nice addition...and the Finn capture mark pushes this rifle into the "rare" category. I've never seen a Finn-captured M38...
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Thanks Ken, I was thrilled to win it off auction, years ago. It is the most common year found of the uncommon SA M38s. Pahtu.
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I was about to say, '41 is a rare year for an M38!...pretty much the only rarer M38 I could think of would be a 1940 Tula M38 with the Finn Capture stamp (and only a handful of those ever existed, I'm...
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M44 stocks are correct for later date produced M38s. I have a 1943 mismatched barreled action M38 that I found at a yard sale, it was in a bubba'd M44 stock - I found a M44 stock on auction and hit...
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BTW - SA 1939 M38s in the early version stock & handguard are a really tough and valuable find, next of course is the SA 1940 M38 in the earlier stock is a tough find - By far, one finds SA 1941...
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Who knows...I'd be a little cautious, since the SA stamp is faked too often for my liking. Of course, only a greedy fool would feel the need to "improve" an already hard-to-find Tula M38 with an SA...
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