Not bad. At all. Walnut, to my surprise. Expecting a severely beaver-chewed beech. Has a forend splice, M39-style. With sharp fingers, but perfectly done. Bluing on the gun is shot, reciever is in the white! (This was meant to be a "project" gun. I have several- perfect- K31's that I've do...

The sticky bolt thing is widely attributed to case lacquer build up melting with the heat of firing... lacquer extant or no, I find that pulling back on the cocking knob, THEN opening the bolt takes the strain of cocking off the action and it opens easier. No matter how hot the chamber/barrel are ge...

A nice thing to have... (I collect M39's).

A Lahti, as well.

175 rounds, 3 diff kinds of ammo: 100% reliablity.

Alas, it gave me "Walther bite"- a Houge Handall will help anchor it.

Hope this helps somebody: Century still has Manurhin PP's, and they work as advertised...

Having scratched the immediate C&R itch with a few rifles- M39, M44, Yugo Mauser- I went looking for the Manurhin PP- one of the C&R "must-haves." Sadly, they are drying up. A year or so ago AIM had, along with a few others. They've inched their way up in price as well. I located a...

Thanks for the size comparison pic- the Mak is bigger than I thought it was.

How about the antique receiver M39's at Wholesale G&A?

They have so many; some are quite reasonable, others seem high.

I just got one: under $200, 100% blue, nice stock, VKT 1941 barrel... and it shot very well.

$100 M39's are gone forever.

Like my CZ52 a lot, but it has a few quirks. With mine, the slide hold open sticks, possibly because of the wood grips, I think. Anybody else have this? Also got a case of the Romanian from AIM. Good stuff- fairly clean burning- but I did have one extractor prob. Live round stuck; looked like the ri...