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Script font 1944 JP Sauer

Clay, great rifle!! Glad to be there for the purchase especially sans cell phone battery in the final seconds!!
 
Tons of rifles have sintered bands (and other parts too) but very frequently they get chalked into the speed milled category. There are some interesting band variations, many stemming from Mauser Oberndorf developments. There are the stamped and welded H bands, the stamped and welded solid bands which actually appear to be two piece construction, you see the obvious weld seem on the bottom but the top is welded and finish ground, when you look closely in the light you can see file marks and weld porosity. Off the top of my head one of the sintered part makers is Sintermetalwerke, not sure if they did K98k parts or not, someone please correct me if I remembered that wrong.
 
That’s a killer rifle!!!

I’ll be honest, I was never a Sauer fan, as you see so many with weak finishes, but I was young and foolish. Now I find them a very interesting firm and I knowing what I know now, I can appreciate one with good finish even more. I wish I’d gotten one or two more. Lol.
 
A little late to this gang bang....:facepalm::laugh:

But, yeah, had this in hand last week, it's a beaut! Really cool to see in person, and the white glue stock is beautiful...

I get lucky every once in a great while, Clay finds the shite consistently! Like a damned Mauser bloodhound!
 
OK, so this one sort of fell into my hands...Clay never took it apart, but I did, thought I'd post some inside pics...

The stock is truly mint crisp (but doesn't taste like a thin mint, unfortunately)...Here are some pics of it inside, numbered handguard and stock in channels...

Just beautiful raw wood...
 

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Now a question....

Bolt mismatch...but, bolt is in same letter block, there is no FP, nor anything on the bottom of the bolt root, which leads me to believe this is a Sauer bolt...

S/N not horrendously dis-similar...

Any chance this is a factory mis-match? Wishful thinking, sure, but curious...
 

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It is probably wishful thinking but I seem to recall a discussion along these lines? :) Heavy pressures to get rifles out the door and come time for final shot grouping test something was not going quite right. Swapped bolts with another rifle already passed but not out the door yet and after 2nd rifle passed they 'forgot' or didn't swap bolts back? Kind of makes sense to me and probably something I would do if I was getting my a$$ beat (possibly literally) for not getting enough rifles out the door that day.
 
Got one more for the mix, Walther script 43 to script 44 with the “plain” font 44 as seen on others.
 

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