santana2006

Honestly I'd say the shop got a touch better end of that deal for what you have. If you like it and wanted it more than the other two...

unless it was the civil guard then it would have it on mark for them

and all the other people who had hands on this in the 80+ years it has floated around before meeting @santana2006.

It's fun to speculate on who did what on these post war used rifles, but the fact is so many travelled to multiple user countries and...

This is true for any specific rifle but there are absolutely trends in how they were modified that you can look at more broadly and use...

Yes, there are some trends that are typical. There are also some rifles that got things altered by multiple users. I've come to never...

so for example, finns bought and capture guns... they would go through there arsenal and be marked with SA.

so what your theory on why it didn't get marked at whatever country had it in their arsenal? sometimes stuff gets missed etc...

others mentioned Balkan import, meaning Yugoslavia, Romania etc. the russians numbered stocks w/# parallel to bore, the Balkan countries...

I can add the receiver was supplied by Walther to Sauer by the leading e/359 on the right side. Someone really couldn't handle those...

thank you everyone for the very good feedback/info. But i would like to throw this out there. So, could this be a RC? The stock is...

there two different numbers on the bolt and the safety lever thing. nothing else is numbered. yeah, i probably traded to much for her...

IMO it goes: Clean birds >>>>>> pinged birds > obliterated/defaced birds. Obliterated birds isn't quite as bad as something like a...

I believe it’s a Balkan import…. Owned a few just like this in the past that exhibited similar characteristics. Does the bolt match...

The SN on the stock was put there by someone else. The Germans didn't number in that spot. I think that's Yugoslavian, but I'm not...