I ordered it on 10/30 when they dropped the price to $179, and it arrived 11/14. I was out of town so it sat at fedex until I swung by and grabbed it on my lunch break today. 7 mil all metal is matching, I can't tell yet if the stock is matching or not, it has some trench art carved right where the serial # is stamped. The stock has a pretty good crack at the wrist that I haven't decided if I will try to repair or not. The cosmoline is really rusty colored, but a couple of the spots I wiped off quickly only appear to be surface rust. I will tear it down tonight and drop her in some mineral spirits for a few days. I think it will clean up pretty good, and I have another stock I can put it in.
Here are a few quick crappy cell phone pictures.
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I will get some more pictures when I start cleaning her all up.
Kool Brian!
I'm pretty sure you've going to find the stock is an Alby replacement or at the very least a mismatch off another gun. 7 mils should have a side swivel on the stock.
The bluing looks pretty good actually, I think it's going to clean up really well too! Even if it was a total mixmaster in horrible shape that was non-functional, that gun would be worth $150 to $200 in just parts alone.
My excuse for not buying one this time around? After shelling out $150 for glow plug fixes on the car, throwing a 'big' birthday party for my daughter (complete with a blow up bouncing castle thingy in the backyard), and Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up, I'll continue to blame the wife! rofl Plus I'm still holding out hope for finding a CZ82 or a VZ2008 whenI do finally get the green light!
Quote from: running-man on November 24, 2014, 03:07:31 PM
Kool Brian!
I'm pretty sure you've going to find the stock is an Alby replacement or at the very least a mismatch off another gun. 7 mils should have a side swivel on the stock.
The bluing looks pretty good actually, I think it's going to clean up really well too! Even if it was a total mixmaster in horrible shape that was non-functional, that gun would be worth $150 to $200 in just parts alone.
My excuse for not buying one this time around? After shelling out $150 for glow plug fixes on the car, throwing a 'big' birthday party for my daughter (complete with a blow up bouncing castle thingy in the backyard), and Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up, I'll continue to blame the wife! rofl Plus I'm still holding out hope for finding a CZ82 or a VZ2008 whenI do finally get the green light!
RM- Thanks for the reminder on the side swivel stock, I meant to look that up on the SKS Guide and didn't yet. I will most likely put it in one of the bottom swivel stocks I have, and keep my eyes out for a side swivel.
Very nice... cant beat that for the moola!
I still need on of these 7m from albania as I have 1-2 each of all the other variations that came out of there.
Hey RM..... where all the 6m at?
Here are some additional pictures while I tore her down to take her mineral spirits bath. There is some rust under the wood line, but so far it only appears to have a couple spots of pitting. I will work on getting her all cleaned up next week.
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The stock does have a serial # on it, but really tough to make out and obviously not matching to the metal. It was also full of sand :o
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And this was in the cleaning kit cavity.
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