G.24 t Production Numbers ?

I was interested in the production numbers for the G.24t because I had not seen any. And while at the last Indy 1500 gun show I came across my first G 24t. The seller said he had it in his collection since the eighties. It is an import but not a recent R/C, the stock is a laminate, no finger grooves, flat butt plate, straight unnumbered bolt, there is Nazi F/P's and waffen's on the barrel and receiver, the side rail is marked G24t. The stock numbers match the receiver and barrel. I to have seen more G33/40's at shows.

g24t's

Here are two g24t's I will post more pic's soon

Great rifles mauser99 !

dou 42 'k' block

here is a photo of a dou42 k block. All matching with just a slightly massaged stock. The markings are still clear though. I'm not sure if S.S. has this recorded.

Thanks M99, I did not have this one on file, but have heard about it. Just to be thorough, as I am sure it is as all others are, but the RR is e/A80 x2?

In the trends work I am collaborating on, we are tracking serial ranges, RR, BC, and stock acceptance patterns (and configuration).

Mostly we are trying to determine ranges where things begin or end (stock type-buttplate types etc..), and acceptance patterns.

Not sure if the attrition rate was higher for the G24t, but if the G33/40 might have survived in larger numbers it sure was made up for postwar by sporters.

You see a lot of G33/40 actions re-purposed for sporting.

I have seen no data, period or collector articles, on disposition of finished rifles. The only thing I can say about where these rifles ended up is based upon period pictures.

The G33/40 you see in some numbers with mountain troopers (8-9 pics I have on file), and a couple in the hands of the ss, one particularly well circulated one in a barracks environment, in the hands of what appear to be recruits.

The G24t is a little harder to tie down, many dozens of pictures of vz24 types, in German hands, but only a few can be identified as G24t. But I assume they went to rear area troops (which doesn't narrow it much as most of the German Army was rear area troops), and training.

Xygorak said:

Given the estimate of G24(t)s produced compared to the estimate given for G33/40s on another current thread (120,000 vs. 135,000), are there theories as to why the attrition rate for the G24(t)s seems to have been so much higher than the G33/40? Any data on where finished rifles were sent?

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G24T, Slovak Configuration?

As a follow-up, I just acqd. a DOU 42, all#'s matching..appears stocked in Slovak stock..s/n 7702 h block, was this stock used in the Slovak contract/production? Great posts re this topic..Tom

That's a post-war, communist Yugoslavian stock, not original to the rifle and not related to Slovakian production.

The stock could be of mixed production, personally dont believe Yugoslavian produced Vz.24 buttstocks, but mostly this is a refursbishment of various parts in Yugoslavia postwar as there is BK in circle stamp Branko B in Sprski mauser book call postwar reworks a M24/52Č or old czechoslovak configuration. Various recievers were used, here not fully refurbished with new yugoslavian stamps on recievers . b.r.Andy