Nice one PAX. Did the stock and mag actually come originally from this gun in that you had a buddy that partially parted it out, then sometime later traded you the rest of the carbine? Nice save if so!
Yes, it's the complete rifle. The fella who had it (total stranger) responded to a WTB I had on Calguns and sold me the mag & stock. Why he parted out a complete rifle was beyond me. I think the mount base bugged him. A couple weeks later he called me and asked if I was interested in trading one of my home-made Paras straight across for the rest of the rifle. Trying not to bite my tongue I blurted out "sure". He had seen some of my handy work when we met. So in exchange for a SARCO built Para (total mix-master from Lkermits stash I got) with a P50 sight in Choate conventional furniture I scored hard
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On a side note, while I was at the LGS doing the transfer for the CC, I saw a Lux FN49 in the rack. I asked the owner, Joe, if he'd be up for a trade for some SKS fodder (he knows I'm an SKS junkie). He said 3 nice ones would do it. I'll be back tomorrow I says, hold the FN. He took a Yugo 59/66, a commercial Chinamen, and another home-grown Para in trade
. He was asking $2400 for the Lux. I think between the 2 rifles it was a couple of the best gun deals I ever had
. PAX