Short Side Rail SSR sniper? Early Mauser, Type 3 base, no scope

[wwiifirearms]

I’ve considered a reproduction, but will probably wait to find an original even if not remotely close to the correct matching numbers. With an otherwise correct rifle I just feel like for me reproduction parts sort of muddy the waters as to the history and appearing to try to be something it is not. A non-matching original is clear that it isn’t trying to be something it isn’t. Simply a gun that lost it’s scope and picked up another at some point. Just a personal preference. Having it incomplete will help motivate my search. ;-)

If wanting to 'complete' it with a mount and if you cannot afford an original top mount or want a place holder, got to waffenmesiter in the US. They have a repro SSR mount set that is quite nice. I found an original SSR missing the top mount and their repro mount slide on perfectly, tight as a glove with the original base. Period correct scopes are also not hard to find.

In a perfect world, maybe you can match it with an original mount or even the matching mount. My matching and original mount turned up in the Czech Republic - however the person that owned it wouldn't sell it as he wanted my rifle. Sadly we could not come to an agreement. Really interesting as my rifle, it would have lost the scope likely at the end of the war, sent to Iraq and the then imported by CAI and later exported and imported to Canada.

 

[wwiifirearms]

I started looking through “Backbone of the Wehrmacht V.II” and an example SSR on page 22 caught my attention for the following reasons:
-serial number 80090 is not far from the numbers on these recently discussed examples.
-similar(but different) type II/III SSR on a pre-war Mauser banner
-It happens that the vet that brought back my example (81907), also had a 1934 Standard Modelle now in a Sporter stock(not sniper converted). The family has since located the original stock serial numbered to the 1934, and it is a DRP stock, as-is the example in the book. Perhaps the vet acquired both rifles from the same place.

Obviously just speculation, but perhaps the history of 80090 is some how related to B prefixed 81907 and the other B prefixed examples in the earlier thread linked below?

https://www.k98kforum.com/showthrea...e-Rail-Conversion&highlight=banner+conversion

Perhaps it all means nothing.

 

[eddie d]

here is another one.
close s/n but mine has a HO-- bunch of things wrong with it.
ED

 

[wwiifirearms]

here is another one.
close s/n but mine has a HO-- bunch of things wrong with it.
ED

I would love to see more pictures. Is the scope and mount numbered?
With relatively little known about these guns perhaps some of the things that appear to be wrong or actually not wrong.