KKW Prize with stamped butt plate

Yellowstone · Jul 19, 2020

I got this rifle from the son of the vet that brought it back. The story is he made it out of two rifles. One had a broken stock. The other had no bolt. He moved the buut plate to this because it had writing. It appears to be a Mauser action in a BSW / Gustloff stock. Si it.s a parts gun. When I got it the front band was on backwards. There is a stripe of unoxidized finnish where the band covered it. Anyway has anybodody seem one of these with a stamped buttplate.

Absolut · Jul 20, 2020

I guess you can read it yourself, but nevertheless for future reference here the full German inscription:

Otto Schramme Wettkampf 1941
der SA Gruppe Westfalen

Der 3. Siegerwehrmannschaft
vom Sturm 3 / 217

what would translate as

Otto Schramme tournament 1941
of SA Group Westfalen

(For) The 3rd Winner Team
Of Sturm 3 / 217

Otto Schramme was SA member and SA leader of Westfalen, as well as member of the Reichstag for the electoral district Westfalen Nord. He died May/June 1941 in Kreta (he was a paratrooper).

Finally, a personal side note: knowing the buttplate came from a different rifle if I was in your position I'd try to also buy the other rifle, despite of the missing bolt. I would put back the buttplate to the correct rifle and try to find a bolt rather than to keep the buttplate on the complete rifle.

Yellowstone · Jul 20, 2020

I would if I could. The other rifle is in a trash heap somewhere in Germany. He only brought home the whole one he made.

KKW Prize with stamped butt plate

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