8x57mauser
Senior Member
Now while this particular one is not German issued, or at least doesnt so any of the signs of German use, they did use them and I have one that is a restoration in progress that is German issued so I figured I'd share this here.
I already had a nice M.95m that I have been working to restore. That one is all matching German modified but bubba chopped the stock (thank God all the metal was left alone)
In my search for a replacement stock for it I came across this one for sale here on Gunboards and snatched it up. Its all matching, no import mark, pristine bore. It is easily one of the nicest examples I have seen. I grabbed it mainly because my other one is serial #40009 and this one is 44710 which i believe is fairly close to the end of production. This one is interesting in that the magazine and mag spring housing are numbered 44710 but the 7 is stamped over an 8 so it was originally 44810, probably incorrectly stamped at conversion and then corrected. toe of the stock was repaired and the repair was proofed.
Now that I have an unmessed with example I am able to see just how the stocks on these were made. I find that they use M.95 stocks and inlet them for the hand guard clip and cut them to length. the hand guard is simply an M24 hand guard cut off at the barrel band and the front part of the hand guard is the end of the original M.95 hand guard. In the case of this rifle both the front piece and the stock have the same penciled serial number so probably came from the same rifle. knowing that I now can go about restoring my other M.95m without needing to find an M.95m stock. I have a mixed number M.95 trainer that I had bought for the stock to restore a sportered M.95 rifle I no longer have so I will use that stock and just grab an M24 hand guard and finish up the restoration.
I already had a nice M.95m that I have been working to restore. That one is all matching German modified but bubba chopped the stock (thank God all the metal was left alone)
In my search for a replacement stock for it I came across this one for sale here on Gunboards and snatched it up. Its all matching, no import mark, pristine bore. It is easily one of the nicest examples I have seen. I grabbed it mainly because my other one is serial #40009 and this one is 44710 which i believe is fairly close to the end of production. This one is interesting in that the magazine and mag spring housing are numbered 44710 but the 7 is stamped over an 8 so it was originally 44810, probably incorrectly stamped at conversion and then corrected. toe of the stock was repaired and the repair was proofed.
Now that I have an unmessed with example I am able to see just how the stocks on these were made. I find that they use M.95 stocks and inlet them for the hand guard clip and cut them to length. the hand guard is simply an M24 hand guard cut off at the barrel band and the front part of the hand guard is the end of the original M.95 hand guard. In the case of this rifle both the front piece and the stock have the same penciled serial number so probably came from the same rifle. knowing that I now can go about restoring my other M.95m without needing to find an M.95m stock. I have a mixed number M.95 trainer that I had bought for the stock to restore a sportered M.95 rifle I no longer have so I will use that stock and just grab an M24 hand guard and finish up the restoration.
