Looking At a hk93 desert camo to buy

Welcome from up in Virginia. The camo HKs are certainly valuable rifles but difficult to peg as they don’t seem to change hands often and many just sit when they come up for sale due to unrealistic prices.
 
I've never seen one of those keep it's paint in perfect condition. Even new-in-box safe queens.
 
@Valmet
Valmet said:
IIRC the painting was contracted to a flooring company in Florida.
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All these camo series have the (Ulm Germany) N-Proof burned through the paint, plus all the post-paint assembled items that would take quite a bit of effort & knowhow of when/what sequence that these items could be assembled. Some pics of items that are installed after the paint process, notably the stock buffer:

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Tailflash said:
@Valmet


All these camo series have the (Ulm Germany) N-Proof burned through the paint, plus all the post-paint assembled items that would take quite a bit of effort & knowhow of when/what sequence that these items could be assembled. Some pics of items that are installed after the paint process, notably the stock buffer:
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Excellent pictorial. 😀

Tony
 
Tailflash said:
@Valmet


All these camo series have the (Ulm Germany) N-Proof burned through the paint, plus all the post-paint assembled items that would take quite a bit of effort & knowhow of when/what sequence that these items could be assembled. Some pics of items that are installed after the paint process, notably the stock buffer:

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Could any of them have been stateside? Woodland camo guns? The only reason I ask is that I remember reading and hearing that from an authority, or someone who I consider to be.
 
The Woodland Camo guns could have been painted stateside. There's nothing special on them like the desert tan injection molded furniture that's exclusively found on the Desert Camo guns. The woodland camo pattern does not share the same paint colors as the desert camo guns have so yes, it is possible the had their camo schemes added after import.

On the Desert HK91s, it's apparent that the metal portion of the buttstocks were painted first, then assembled with buffer, recoil spring & rod Assy, plastic portion of stock then the buttstock endcap added in this order. This task alone is far beyond the capability of some third-party company that HK would entrust to do. The fact that these desert camo guns all have the (Ulm Germany) Nitro-N proof mark burned into the paint proves these were painted/assembled in Germany.

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