reiver wrote:From what I've read there are no hard/fast 'rules' for arsenal refurbed matchings...some auto pen...some stamped mounts etc....all of which can be replicated.
Everything that came out of an arsenal (and witha known history) has electro pencil markings on it. Except Tulas. Some of Tulas were stamped in numbers so EP was not needed at the time to keep the parts all together during refurbishment.
reiver wrote:If a sniper is advertised as non refurbed that would make the authentication easier I believe....with the arsenal refurbs there is conjecture. Is that a proper statement?
Nope, there are clear things done to the PU snipers during refurbishment by the arsenals. That adds to the ability to ID them. When those thing are not there, then you have to wonder why. Also, good F***ing luck finding a non-refurbished Russina WWII sniper rifle. They are very rare and very expensive. Only ones I know of are the Yugoslavian PU snipers that were given to them by Russia after WWII. There are others like Hungarian PU snipers that were not refurbished but ... they were made post WWII. I guess there were Finn captured snipers also, but they were not PU snipers. But PE and PEM. I suppose there were a very few that came out of Vietnam also..
