And who stamped the "8x57" using individual hand stamps with the "X" looking like it was made from two chisel marks? That has the look of some gunsmith (American?) not the Mauser factory. And if the rifle never left the factory, why did it need rebarrelled? Was it fired so much in testing that front sight change that the barrel was worn out? And if the factory did the rebarrelling, why bother to number the barrel at all? A military depot might have done that, but if it never left the factory, how would a depot have had it? And the military would never have accepted a rifle without the proper inspection marks and with a shiny receiver.
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It might have been a reject, but then would Mauser have wanted to turn it into a sporter? And why not remove the military markings? If the rifle never left the factory, there would have been no point in putting on commercial marks, but then also no point in proving it or serial numbering it either. To use it to build a commercial rifle could have been illegal diversion of government property. Hi, RyanE, that military receiver was not "scrubbed", it was a German military contract receiver and the markings are correct and intact. But to pass such a rifle off as a Mauser commercial sporter seems a bit remarkable, to say the least. Those kinds of guns are not without interest, as they reflect a period of history and of a conquered nation.
#Chilean mauser pick markings serial number#
Was the serial number a continuation of some pre-war series? Perhaps, or maybe just made up. That would explain most of the discrepancies - an old rejected receiver, hammer on some stamps, give it a quick blue job, a pick up barrel, bits and pieces from around the shop, and a quick payment in cigarettes. It looks to me more like one of the "made for the Amis" guns tossed together after the war to sell to American GI's. In Jan 1944, Germany was not to the "scraping the bottom of the parts bin" stage, so it seems unlikely that a rifle would have been taken from Mauser for Wehrmacht use at that time. But 1944 is not consistent with the WaA 655 stamp, as he appears to have left Mauser by that time, so we have some old parts there.
It was rebarrelled in 1944 (barrel date is 1-44 and it has the Nazi eagle barrel proof and tool marks consistent with the 1944 date), but that barrel was numbered to match the receiver with the same font as that used on the original receiver. Then it received at some point a high polish blue. Then it somehow received a serial number not compatible with military serial numbers. Then it received commercial "BUG" and "N" proofs. That receiver is not and never was a Mauser commercial sporter it was a military contract receiver that might have been taken from the contract production for some company reason, but that seems very unlikely, since Mauser would not be paid for it unless it was delivered. Well, Mauser was making commercial sporters in 1936, but it is a pretty sure bet that that was not one of them.
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