M48 Mauser Question - Floor Plate

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I recently ordered a M48 from Marstar's latest imported batch.

My understanding was that the M48 should have a machined floor plate. Can anyone confirm if the one on this rifle is machined or stamped?

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I know the M48A has stamped floor plates but my receiver is marked M48. The rifle is in nice shape but does this affect the collectibility of the rifle?
 
I'm not 100% sure but it looks stamped because if it was milled those stamped marks wouldn't be there or would be less deep. If you take off the floor plate you should be able to tell since the milled ones are very solid. To take it off just get a bullet or a solid punch push in that button by the trigger guard and push the floor plate towards the trigger guard it should slide off.

Also it is clearly marked on marstar if they are m48 or m48a I think the m48 Bo are just m48a with no crest so check out the site or bill/ receipt to see what you got.
 
that looks like a late war stamped floor plate. best thing to do is call Marstar and talk to John , if there is an issue, it will be fixed.
 
Your rifle is built using mg an m48 receiver, but it looks to be a rebuild using M48B bottom metal. Not only is the floor plate stamped, but your trigger guard assembly as well, making it m48b metal, not m48a.

Not unusual for a rebuild.
 
Thanks for all the info. I definitely ordered an M48 priced at $479.00 described in "as new" condition. This appears to be a rebuild, I will f/u with Marstar.
 
CLAVEN2 AND OTHERS;

It is not rare to see late production M-48 rifles incorporating stamped components as they reached the end of M-48 production and were about to change the nomenclature to M-48a.... Despite your ruling that it is M-48a metal work it remains an M-48.
BEFORE you pronounce this rifle a rebuild let me ask you this, have you examined the rifle for the rebuild code markings ?? Which ones are on it, how is it marked ??
I think I can say with a high level of certainty you have NOT examined this rifle, otherwise you would know it is NOT a rebuild, it is a brand new rifle....

I would appreciate it if people would ask questions before pronouncing their "expert opinion" on open forums....
John
 
GAFF:
"that looks like a late war stamped floor plate. What war ?? The M-48 family of rifles is post WW-11.
The manufacturing went from all machined components through various stages of production to having stamped floor plates, stamped trigger guard/mag well assemblies, stamped barrel bands....
However it it not unusual to see a mix of parts on end of run guns....

" best thing to do is call Marstar and talk to John , if there is an issue, it will be fixed. "
Well said and well appreciated.... you obviously understand our policy and our attempt to satisfy one and all....
John
 
CVX5947;
"This appears to be a rebuild, How have you arrived at this conclusion ? Would you mind sharing the refurb codes that you found ?

" I will f/u with Marstar." Excellent idea, this is what should have taken place in the first place, the matter would be resolved by now.

Since this rifle does not satisfy your requirements I would ask you to simply pack it up and return it to us via regular parcel post.... Kindly take a moment to review our warranty policy on the back side of your invoice
John
 
I did not know about floor plates until I started reading more about the M48. On your site you state:

"These stanped components (along with the 'M-48A' receiver markings) are the main distinguishing feature between this rifle and the earlier M-48'."
http://www.marstar.ca/html/reflibrary/m48-m48B.html

This information and the responses to this thread suggested that this floor plate did not belong on this model rifle.

Now you are stating it is possible to find an M48 with stamped floor plated. This is new information to me and probably many others. I wanted to confirm that I received an original rifle and not one that had mismatched parts.
 
If these rifles served with Yugo troops during the post war period, wouldn't it make sense that some of the rifles would have had parts swapped to keep them as good as condition as possible, then packed away in storage ? A similar scenario would be our familiar Russian SKSes during their refurbishment and being packed away as a number of them would have been used by Soviet troops before the AK47 production was up to snuff.

M48s are usually found "packed in grease" and are as close to the factory as you can get. As long as she feeds, chambers, and shoots well, I wouldn't worry if your floor plate is machined or stamped.

As previously mentioned, where does your rifle's serial number fall ? That may help with explaining the stamped parts.
 
CVX5946; "confirm that I received an original rifle and not one that had mismatched parts"

The picture clearly shows that the floorplate has the same serial number as the res of the rfile

John
 
NABS;
"If these rifles served with Yugo troops during the post war period"
I can assure your these rifles were new, un-issued, un-used, never fired except testing at the factory....

"M48s are usually found "packed in grease" and are as close to the factory as you can get."
Trust me on this one, after having sold several hundred Yugoslav Mausers, I can tell the difference....

John
 
No offense intended, John. I trust your experience as you have opened and looked into a number of these Yugo Mauser crates while I have only shot an M48 once.
 
John:

I only quote verifyable references - in this case the Kragujevac official historian's authoritative work on Yugo bolt action rifles. I'm repeating facts taken directly from Branko Bogdonovic's "Serbian and Yugoslav Mauser Rifles", pages 167 and 168 (ISBN 1-882391-35-7). He is quite clear that any non-refurb M48 variant with a stamped trigger guard is an M48B and that original M48B's are stamped as an M48A on the receiver ring. M48's with M48B features are a documented refurb variant.

I'm not trying to be combative or even to claim it's a bad thing if the rifle is a refurb. The rifle is what it is, and I think it's an attractive example.

If Mr. Bogdanovic is incorrect, then I stand corrected.
 
Not to beat a dead horse, but I bought a M48BO from Marstar a few years ago and it had a stamped floorplate with matching serial number that looked exactly like the poster's. It was also new in cosmoline.
 
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