Mauser 42 Code 1940

[ma deuce]

Originally Posted by alanint

You had not mentioned the price previously! That's about twice what this gun in the condition you describe is worth.

I would certainly pass on this myself.

That was my immediate reaction when I saw it in the store, and FWIW, was confirmed by looking at prices on the Simpson's site, which usually runs high, anyway. I started this thread chiefly because I was interested in the brown plastic grip aspect. I was also interested in whether the 3-digit no-suffix serial number had some significance I was missing.

Re the consignment aspect, I have little patience with dealers that try to pass off gross overpricing by blaming the owner/consignor. I look at it as the dealer's responsibility either to talk the owner out of his pie-in-the-sky expectations down to something like reality, or not to accept the gun at all.

The gun and its price didn't pass my sniff test, and I appreciate hearing from all of you who are far more knowledgeable than I.