Article about: I found this at a very small local gunshow this past Friday. It's an odd-ball, even for a family of weapons that are already difficult to find. There are a number of known variations with 43
I found this at a very small local gunshow this past Friday. It's an odd-ball, even for a family of weapons that are already difficult to find. There are a number of known variations with 43M rifles, but usually differing only if particular components were numbered or not. I've not seen the use of parentheses on model designations except in the case of the G.24(t), but only one letter is encased with those, not the entire designation. A Gunboards.com member has one that is just like this one, but his is a bolt-only m/m. It appears that this G.98/40 receiver was re-directed to 43M production in 1944 (by serial number), possibly at a time when G.98/40 production had ceased or had been interrupted by Allied bombing raids.
If anyone has any information on this sub-species I'd love to hear it. I haven't taken the action out of the stock, so there might be additional interesting aspects under the wood line. There is some odd stock graffiti, but nothing so bad that I would pass this up for the price. I didn't think I'd find anything at this show, so I felt very lucky to find this one.
Hungarian 43M Rifle with a G.98/40 receiver
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