Bolt body id?
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Muncher 1953
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there is such a “B” as that marked on BSW parts starting in ‘38. any e#s on it anywhere? (hoping for an e/4)
this pic stolen from the reference section…….
this pic stolen from the reference section…….
waw44
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Nope, no e#s unfortunatelly, hence my asking here.
Mauserguy85
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Looks JP Sauer to me… the “h” and the small FP
waw44
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Based on what? Serial font?
Muncher 1953
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Finally Matching 1939 BSW Rust Removed
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Mauserguy85
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more Bs
Finally Matching 1939 BSW Rust Removed
This K98 was shown here on the 26th September 2012 closet fresh. I will bring to the top the original Post with photos. I purchased this from the Vets daughter in Maryland and received her fathers details (seems this was a Vet bring back from Italy as he also brought back Italian money). I lubed...
It’s JPS for me. The suffix and the fonts….. here are pics of a couple of my rifles. I could probably dig up a few more. One has a B and I’ve seen this plenty of times on JPS bolts. I also have one with a small lowercase “a” next to the trademark JP Sauer firing proof. All of my bolts in this set do not proofing on the bottom of the bolt root.
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Mauserguy85
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A couple more of mine but one has 1 e/37 on bottom and the other has two e/37s so look to be earlier war bolts.
BSW bolts should be really well-finished. You should barely have machining marks on the bolt root flats imo. The OP’s looks to be maybe a mid war - later bolt where proofing was discarded. I may be wrong though…. I guess we will see when others chime in.
BSW bolts should be really well-finished. You should barely have machining marks on the bolt root flats imo. The OP’s looks to be maybe a mid war - later bolt where proofing was discarded. I may be wrong though…. I guess we will see when others chime in.
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Muncher 1953
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have to agree that bsw bolts show better finish, & when I just pulled mine apart (on a ‘37 bsw parts rifle) there’s no B next to the fp on the back of the handle, but 2 e/4 & a B on the underside. tho like the one I posted above from the reference, the rest of it is covered w/Bs. the 37 has Weimar proofs so I can’t compare size of fps. my bolt body looks to be Norwegian used, the top flat is ground & remarked ‘.028’ which is how they designated just the last 3 digits.
Did any postwar users re mark the bolt proofs?
Did any postwar users re mark the bolt proofs?
