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Bolt mismatch. Boy, does that trigger guard stand proud of the stock...but it is the correct, unsanded stock numbered to the gun.

Jeff
 

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Couple more.

I have to find a new way to do lighting. This is outdoors under a sunshade, it is almost always sunny here. I think the pics are way too dark. But full AZ sun is way too much.

I don't think so, I'll try to straighten it if so.

Jeff
 

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Yeah, I just took it apart. I don't think I ever have before.

It's bent alright. I'll have to figure out how to straighten it without damaging anything.

Jeff
 
Fixed. I'm an idiot.

Thanks, guys.

Jeff
 

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Nice rifle! I had an L block action before that had something funky going on, the bolt cycled in it poorly and I knew something was wrong, turns out the receiver was bent down at the thumb cut! My best guess is it might have been a rifle that had the stock broken in half on a tree or by a hammer or whatever is happening in this picture I came across on the net!
 

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Jeff, is the buttplate subcontractor marked? Did you get the barrel code when you had it apart? The band spring is stamped? I track these things.

Your TG-FP is one of the elusive variations you sometimes see in the e-block and f-block. The e-block begins with the patterned followed in the d-block (last four on TG & last two on FP), then the TG drops serialing altogether and places full serial on FP lengthwise. But there are a number of rifles like yours, milled TG-FP with full serial across wise, no abbreviation, and this lingers into the f-block.

Anyway, a strange pattern with Mauser, not sure i understand why really, but every time I see one of these I have to do a double take on the rifle.
 
Sorry, Paul.

brg buttplate, stamped band spring, barrel under the wood says "440356 Wa13"

Jeff
 
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I'm not putting it back together this time until you tell me I'm done...:googlie

Looks like a zero to me. But that's a bad 135 stamp, yes. I need to find my loupe.

Jeff
 

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Jeff, it's a Mauser barrel, - so the waffenamt is e/135, but weakly struck. The BC is 44D356 (D=Döhlen), I already knew my comment was correct (due to the BC structure, -only Ruhrstahl used e/13 on barrels and that was no Ruhrstahl code) because Mauser never used Ruhrstahl. Mauser did use FN near the very end, but Mauser made almost all their own barrels.

Mauser "generally" only used sub-contractors on a limited scale, mostly FN bolt components (FN was managed by DWM/MO during the war) and buttplates.
 
Great rifle! That is the first e block I can recall seeing with the milled tg/fp and the first I have recorded (pretty new to data recording tho). I have a d and f block in my collection with the milled bottom metal so I'm not surprised to see one in the e block but it's still very interesting.

Thanks for posting it up.
 

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