Absolut
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While the thread title is a bit more of an allusion to a YouTube channel with the rifle not being a superb nice sample, but at least it is a real super-blondie!
That thing recently was found on an attic, well hidden, but not this well protected. Hence the last decades made the stock super light, so it really deserves the attribution "blondie". Some timber worms obviously found a new home in it as well, but rather this way than a sanded stock. It is quite of a textbook rifle (at least to me), for what I know the q-block of bnz 44 was already produced in 1945. It is quite an early q-block as well with a three digit serial - funnily I've had an o-block (so earlier) that was also already in KM configuration whereas another bnz44 q-block in the 3xxx serial range had a normal (non KM) stock, plus another one a bit later being a KM again. The stock of this rifle here is in full Kriegsmodell configuration. Cocking piece is also serialized. Interestingly the bolt lacks the side locking lug, but still has the oval (non-round) gas escape holes, so a bit of "in between". Note the super-crude sling swivel cutout, I'd almost bet it was issued with a clothing sling originally.
I know it is nothing special, but thought I should nevertheless post it for reference.
Edit: for whatever reason it didn't upload the last pic, showing the trigger guard.
That thing recently was found on an attic, well hidden, but not this well protected. Hence the last decades made the stock super light, so it really deserves the attribution "blondie". Some timber worms obviously found a new home in it as well, but rather this way than a sanded stock. It is quite of a textbook rifle (at least to me), for what I know the q-block of bnz 44 was already produced in 1945. It is quite an early q-block as well with a three digit serial - funnily I've had an o-block (so earlier) that was also already in KM configuration whereas another bnz44 q-block in the 3xxx serial range had a normal (non KM) stock, plus another one a bit later being a KM again. The stock of this rifle here is in full Kriegsmodell configuration. Cocking piece is also serialized. Interestingly the bolt lacks the side locking lug, but still has the oval (non-round) gas escape holes, so a bit of "in between". Note the super-crude sling swivel cutout, I'd almost bet it was issued with a clothing sling originally.
I know it is nothing special, but thought I should nevertheless post it for reference.
Edit: for whatever reason it didn't upload the last pic, showing the trigger guard.
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