sturmgrenadier
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I was able to pry this away from the Mauser godfather himself, after a few patient years. It is an interesting one because, like the SVW 45 a block posted a few days ago, it too is missing its final acceptance. It has every hallmark we would want to see in a matching optic late Mauser HT, except it lacks that proof. This one had been discussed in the past, but only limited photos were available at that time. We will never know for sure why that final proof was not applied, however, as is the beauty of this forum, we can try to make sense of it through discussion. Typical late walnut kriegs (drilled under buttplate), hand stamped barrel, milled mauser proofed shortened safety, matching letter on turret base as well as rear tang area, assemblers number, stamped under woodline, and penciled in the barrel channel, serial applied to barrel channel.
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