Dionysusigma
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Well, I'm out $125 for a pristine Yugo M48, including almost all of the cosmoline removed. Numbers match except for the bolt. Bore looks decent for a gun that's had corrosive ammo through it its whole life. 96% bluing. No rust. At all. Wood is excellent, however...
... the previous (Yugoslavian or somesuch) owner "personalised" this thing. A lot. Think along the lines of a child with a handful of crayons and a nice blank wall--except that it's a rifle stock in perfect condition and they used a knife.
Now, normally, I'd be annoyed, but this is some interesting stuff. There's some cyrillic lettering carved into the right side of the stock, but my Russian is not up to scratch. There's a very rudimentry shield on the left side of the buttstock (takes up the whole thing), divided into four quadrants. Lastly, there is a very deep notch that looks like it was sawn into the comb of the buttstock, right in the middle.
So far, I think that the shield is either some sort of national marking made by a patriot or possibly a coat of arms; whatever it is, it looks like it never got finished. I'm guessing the notch is a kill, but who knows...
I'll post some sketches when I have time.
Does anybody here know a few cyrillic languages?
P.S. Where can one find the front sight hood for one o' these?
... the previous (Yugoslavian or somesuch) owner "personalised" this thing. A lot. Think along the lines of a child with a handful of crayons and a nice blank wall--except that it's a rifle stock in perfect condition and they used a knife.
Now, normally, I'd be annoyed, but this is some interesting stuff. There's some cyrillic lettering carved into the right side of the stock, but my Russian is not up to scratch. There's a very rudimentry shield on the left side of the buttstock (takes up the whole thing), divided into four quadrants. Lastly, there is a very deep notch that looks like it was sawn into the comb of the buttstock, right in the middle.
So far, I think that the shield is either some sort of national marking made by a patriot or possibly a coat of arms; whatever it is, it looks like it never got finished. I'm guessing the notch is a kill, but who knows...
I'll post some sketches when I have time.
Does anybody here know a few cyrillic languages?
P.S. Where can one find the front sight hood for one o' these?