u/Afraid-Peak2154

A mockup, not my proudest work by far, my phone makes the contrast far more obvious, the hand guard itself is only off by a little bit. Not to my satisfaction though, but because of the fitting process it’s a lot more obvious with the stock. I’m gonna get around to eventually stripping it down and bleaching it with oxalic acid. Using cut offs of the old and new hand guard shows they’ll blend in perfectly.

But now unfortunately I gotta start prepping for the long winter and very minimal time to work on it, hence the slap job linseed oil so the beech doesn’t check and crack. Once I’m home again for awhile I’ll also steam the stock.

Finding a proper sized Fucile hand guard is almost impossible, bought a BBE one, was too short. I was dejected and broken. But upon further thinking, I realized I still had a good bit of the original hand guard, I could just chop off the bad and trim the new one.

I still have to sand and shape things before I join them together, as you might be able to see. But my genius is frightening. I totally won’t have to bleach the stock to make it not glaringly obvious what happened. Being completely serious thankfully the Carcano hand guard isn’t floating so this will hold just fine.

It’s just extremely aggravating paying like $60 for an undersized hand guard that had an ate up little opening for the sight.

This also came from the casino, it had a slight patina but otherwise just a dirty stock with some trench art and a small crack.

The bore is immaculate, but it’s sorta where confusion starts. It is an unmarked rifle but has some proof marks from La Coruna arsenal. So probably a civilian market M43 but then it also has a FN made barrel, the barrel and barrel bands have a similar wear pattern. So I’m not quite sure of the history of this one but I’ve grown to like it. It does cycle flawlessly, and seems to have just had its stock abused.

The stock is in process of being finished, I plan on abusing it myself in the woods, so just a simple finish for a relatively undesirable Mauser. Just gotta get some 8mm feed for it now.

Gained from the horrid Floridian Casino. Actually sorta of a gem, stock is in okay condition except the top hand guard is damaged, missing about half of itself. The bore is decent condition. The Blueing is surprisingly in decent shape, almost no rust at all. The action is extremely smooth, not as near as my Mauser. But definitely beating a lot of other milsurp bolties. Other than that, restoring it will be extremely easy apart from finding a top hand guard.