DSM "sear scars"

[R.W. Parker]

This has to be the worst example of this I've seen, on an otherwise-pretty-nice Mauser DSM-36.

And it got me to wondering -- these scars and digs HAVE to be the product of some impatient American, who couldn't take the time to observe the proper relationship between bolt and receiver. Just "Unnnh! Unnnh! Why won't it GO IN?"

I can't imagine some HJ kid doing this...

Richie

 

[WreckTangle]

I've seen my fair share and that one is pretty bad.

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[R.W. Parker]

I've seen my fair share and that one is pretty bad.

Right Will? It's like the guy just kept pushing and pushing, and there's this giant curl of wood coming off the stock, but he didn't even stop to see if he might be doing something wrong.

It really makes me wonder about the way some people are wired together...

 

[oldwing]

I have a few of those also. Along the same line here is an Es340 b. I’m inclined to think this happened in the
Fatherland. Most if not all my commercial Mauser smallbores show wear in the sight protector groove but nothing scratched like this one. I don’t think this was done by a dedicated shooter.

 

[R.W. Parker]

Most if not all my commercial Mauser smallbores show wear in the sight protector groove but nothing scratched like this one. I don’t think this was done by a dedicated shooter.

Just so I'm clear -- it's your belief that those scratches were originally made by the rifle's previous German owner(s)?

 

[oldwing]

Yes, by the German owner or by a frequent unenthusiastic user of his rifle. Could have been a German organization or club rifle.

just my opinion

 

[R.W. Parker]

unenthusiastic user of the rifle

Hadn't considered that, very possible!

I imagined that some Authority Figure would've swooped in to nip such behavior in the bud, but I suppose there weren't enough of those to go around.

For some reason, I could never imagine private owners scarring up their rifles like this. Maybe because I always gave Germans the benefit of the doubt when it came to treating precision equipment properly. In this country we have plenty of ham-fisted hammer mechanics, but, now that I think about it, I suppose Germany had their fair share of those types as well.