the plunger & spring for the floor plate is retained by a small pin/rivet fitted into a hole through the rear of the trigger guard. (trigger guard out of the stock) this hole passes through the edge of the bore for the latch plunger & spring many are staked in place, but some are just held by spring tension. look around where you’ve been working/taking pics, it may be found, if not, a short piece of drill bit or steel wire of the correct diameter will work. “maybe” someone here has a spare? it’s a fairly stiff spring for the job it does.
These are the two best I could get in the light, would you recommend baby powder or flour? Didn’t want to use one if it could stay stuck on the frog
I tracked the small piece down. Looks like this one was held in with spring tension. Very tough to get it all the way through with bare hands. May need to wrap my tools in electrical tape before trying again
did you try both ends? some of these are like a hollow rivet, but some are actually a solid pin, tapered slightly. when in place in the stock, its captured.
Do you know anything about slings AndyB? I have a bit of weird one. I can’t find any other examples quite like this one. WaA42 is the waffenamt that is visible if you zoom in. It’s on the inside of the sling. I reached out to bergflak and hope he responds but thought I would drop this here as it came with the rifle. I conditioned this leather which made it much darker than it was previously but the leather was flaking away and seemed brittle
So oddly enough I cannot find any waffenamt of stolla making leather slings. There is a stolla wien waffenamt for leather goods but the date range is listed as 1940-41 and this has 1939 in two different spots. Waffenamts can be faked but it’s a light strike and I can’t find post war examples looking like this. Maybe this was a small batch or something? The buckle looks good and is d&c but I’m not sure what to make of it. Hopefully berg can help out I emailed him and I guess will find out what he thinks
Slash you’re the man. You’re absolutely right it is a 47. I’ve been low on sleep, forgive me. I reached out to bergflak and received his opinion as well. He told me it’s likely a very very early sling (Austria was incorporated into the Reich in 38 which I’m sure you already know) but he said he has never seen any that have this mark or made in 1939 and also that they are done with code cgu a 4 or 44 and usually in ink. Guess I got really lucky. Thanks for your time and consideration into this.
Well that’s good to know! I’m glad it all goes together. Do you mean the color of the leather butt tab on the sling? Forgive my ignorance. Also, do you recommend storing these in a certain way? Seems like a cool dry place in a case out of the sun with a humidor would be good and of course periodic oiling of the metal parts
Okay I see. You think the buttplate was swapped? It’s a sauer stock and from what I can tell this appears to be correct for the stock, just not the other metal parts
