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byf mauser overstamp?
gunbunny69
Member Posts: 49
Hi Guys, I have a ww2 mauser action with waffenampts and reveiver marked byf 42. OK, that's the easy part - my question is that it looks like there was another crest stamping on the receiver that was buffed out and the byf 42 stamp put over this. Did the germans remove the crest to add thier own? Did they do this to unfinished firearms found in captured factories? Thanks
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However about this same time, a Portuguese commercial contract was being taken over by the Wehrmacht to supply more rifles to Operation Barbarrosa, the invasion of the Soviet Union.
There is always the possibility that a single receiver previously in a parts bin could have been found and put into production.
It would really need to be gone over by a knowledgeable person to tell you more. Proofs would aid considerably as would pictures.