I’ve heard of it, but never saw any document. However, years of observation of ship home boxes that were purposely made a certain length is evidence...
The ink stamp could be a poor strike of LBA1938? LBA is a Luftwaffe field gear depot or distribution network type of thing. That’s probably legit. It...
Is there a cleaning rod nut in the stock? I don’t recall the serial of the rifle - it may be the front end of the stock was lost and someone replaced...
That is called a duffel bag cut, stocks were too long to fit in the approved shipping boxes and duffel bags, so they cut the stocks to fit everything...
I know because SS contract bolts are numbered differently than other Steyr bolts. I was planning on selling it, it doesn’t match anything I have. My...
There is some good discussion here, my comments on new barrels is sort of a stream of consciousness thing. A few points - the special marks we see on...
Reinforces the idea that the collar marking is related to the barrel work. What exactly needs to be done to convert a Gew barrel to short length? Cut...