Combat vet Sauer

flynaked

Repo Field Gear Collector

• Sep 20, 2019

• #1

This one was brought in for consignment along with this 1936 bayo, for what it’s worth it was supposedly picked up in Normandy by his uncle, who knows for sure but it sure is cool. There are multiple pieces of copper jacket visible throughout the impact, I couldn’t photograph it but there are some larger pieces even deeper. It’s a bolt m/m but ironically the bolt is a Sauer as well.

 

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flynaked

Repo Field Gear Collector

• Sep 20, 2019

• #2

I like details like the left of the buttstock too, looks to be scratches from a chinstrap, I’ve had a couple like that.

 

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40caliber

Senior Member

• Sep 20, 2019

• #3

Definitely a been there , done that rifle

 

moconfed

Senior Member

• Sep 20, 2019

• #4

Nice rifle, Clay! Nice unmessed with condition. Can you possibly tell direction of impact?

 

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bob32268

Senior Member

• Sep 21, 2019

• #5

JP Sauer, combat vet

Great looking rifle (and bayonet)…..if the soldier was carrying it when that damage occurred, he wasn't too happy !
Thanks for posting and the great pics,
Bob32268

 

flynaked

Repo Field Gear Collector

• Sep 22, 2019

• #6

Thanks fellas, you know how I love untouched rifles

Eric, the stock gives the impression of a graze at first glance but I don’t think it is. There is a fairly clean half round of a hole at a steeper angle where more fragments appear to be a good bit deeper, not exactly sure though.

 

Tyr-33

Member

• Sep 22, 2019

• #7

looks like it would have been an impact within feet of this guy carrying the rifle. imo

 

GulagACapella

Senior Member

• Sep 22, 2019

• #8

Very neat rifle Clay! You do have a habit of finding the best bolt mismatches (I should know, owning 2 of yours lol.)