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Full length view of rifle
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buttstock
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srock wrist. Notice lack of sling slot escutcheon.
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action
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rear sight area
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forestock, notice wartime shotcut folded slot excutcheon
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muzzle end of rifle.
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buttstock, notice indents where stock was used to take down the bolt (firing pin pushed into wood).
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Notice the rough wartime shortcut forged trigger.
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10
action view.
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Notice the rear band removal detents in the stock
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Notice the forestock patch and folded escutcheon
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Closeup view of the rough forged trigger.
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Notice the floorplate has been renumbered to the rifle during a rebuild.
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Izhevsk marked trigger guard.
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Notice this 1943 carbine still has the early style rear sight base with a machined hinge. Later in 1943 this machining step was omitted.
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Receiver markings. 1943 Izhevsk. Note the rough receiver machining.
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Rear sight slide with earlier grooved rear sight leaf. Later sight leafs were only notched without a machined groove extending forward.
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Cocking piece and receiver tang - notice the tang step machining has been omitted as a wartime shortcut.
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21
Receiver top view.
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Buttplate. Note that the buttplate has been renumbered over an older serial number indicating a replaced part.
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Bolt serial number lacks a prefix, thus bolt body is likely a replacement from refurb.
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nmote that the rear barrel band and spring are Tula made machined replacements from refurb.
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Izhevsk made front band and stamped spring in contrast to the machined rear band spring.
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Muzzle view. Note the narrow base of the M38 front sight in contrast to the much wider base found on the later M44 carbine.
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Another view of the front sight assembly.
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Rear of the wartime high-wall receiver. Note the rough machining due to wartime pressures.
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Good view of the high-wall receiver. Note the lack of import markings.
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30
Top view of receiver.
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Bolt body and floorplate/follower assembly.
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The dated underside of the tang indicating 1943 Izhevsk manufacture, appropriate for a 1943 dated carbine.
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