My G33/40 dot 1942

[Cheese Noodles]

Here are pictures of my G33/40 dot dated 1942. It was obtained pretty long ago. I am pretty sure it was refinished based the shiny appearance. I was aware of this when I got it but it was all matching and looked correct. At least I was pretty sure it is except for maybe the cleaning rod. It there are issues, please let me know. I was given a lot of incorrect information on this rifle over the years and one or two visits to this forum corrected that. A few "experts" told me the plate on the but stock was so horse mounted troops would not let the spurs gouge in the stock when clicking their heals during a solute. Yeah. I always looked for pictures of the rifle in the field with the troops and really enjoyed finding such on this forum. I never have shot this rifle. I had a VZ 24 that I enjoyed verse the perceived beating I would take form this short rifle 8mm Mauser.

 

[CanadianAR]

Ive not handled enough of these to say if it was refinished or not. But some of the earlier stuff does have nice bluing. Regardless it is a very nice looking rifle.

 

[Cheese Noodles]

My other question is on the sling, I have seen a few post that indicated this model had a different sling. How does not tell the difference, maybe it is a bit shorter? Also noticed my Dash sneaked into the picture of the full rifle. Chicks with guns.

 

[Peter S]

I don't care for the number on the bolt.

 

[mrfarb]

It's reblued, but unfortunately the bolt is renumbered postwar with an engraver, not stamped. Still, it's nice looker and I love to shoot them.

Here's an old Gunboards post that has 3 different dot 1942 G33/40 bolt photos, note location of the suffix as well: http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?33122-G33-40-Bolt-help

 

[Cheese Noodles]

Thank you for the reference, I can see the difference. If ever I do shoot it, will wait till twilight just to see the muzzle flash. I figured it had a chance to be less then original because of the refinish. I just really liked the way it looked and the seller came down further than I expected.