barrel identification

[moconfed]

Picked up a loose barrel at a local show, and I'd like some info on it. I haven't seen one marked similarly.

 

[mrfarb]

Late dou barrel.

 

[moconfed]

Thanks Mike!
A quick google ID'd the 480 as Walther and I saw a reference to Sauer. The serial font didn't pop as Czech to me.Bore is excellent. Maybe it's a start to replace that dou45 oops I performed a few years ago...but I doubt it.

 

[mrfarb]

Actually that is A80. I want to revise my assesment, i think it's an early dou barrel, like dou42.

 

[moconfed]

The underside of the sight leaf is blank, which I thought would put it '44 or '45. They deleted the numbering as early as '42?

 

[Loewe]

Agreed, but super early dou/42

Actually that is A80. I want to revise my assesment, i think it's an early dou barrel, like dou42.

 

[Loewe]

If you are speaking about the underside of the scale, it is difficult to time this elimination with dou, - by the first block of 1943 it was gone on some rifles, but you would be surprised by how few have taken pictures of this feature on their rifles. Of the 21 recorded (dou/42 98k) only two showed this angle. But it is probable this barrel is off a dou/42, - if it is off a dou/43, which is possible, it would be a tardy application. This lot (2P) is early 1942, but of course barrels were not installed in any kind of order, but they "tend" to be progressive over the long run.

I should also qualify what I mean by early 1942, - I mean early dou/42 "98k", but not early in 1942. It is doubtful dou made the 98k until quite a ways into 1942, - most of their production was G24t in 1942. Most of their rifles (98k) show the expediencies of 1942, so 1942 was well underway when they started to produce 98k's.

The underside of the sight leaf is blank, which I thought would put it '44 or '45. They deleted the numbering as early as '42?