Help Verifying if DWM 1908 Brazili contract is sanded.

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MCHammah96

Junior Member

• Oct 23, 2024

• #1

Hi all,

The rifle itself is quite nice, decent condition & all matching. I'm looking at a very suspicious stock, would like the opinions of those with a trained eye. The cartouches appear to be well struck & deep, but the light color of the wood and smoothness of certain edges especially around the stock disc, give me a gut feeling that this is sanded. Let me know your thoughts please! Much appreciated

 

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Fal Grunt

Senior Member

• Oct 23, 2024

• #2

Do you have the rifle in hand? Can you take more pictures of the bolt, the over all of the rifle?

 

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Jeremy McLean

Member

• Oct 23, 2024

• #3

It looks like it has been cleaned very well to me I also see that a lot of small dents in the wood were raised. More pictures please.

 

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MCHammah96

Junior Member

• Oct 23, 2024

• #4

These are the remaining photos that are shown. My gut tells me it could be sanded, but it's not as straight forward to me as other sanded stocks I've seen.

 

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MCHammah96

Junior Member

• Oct 23, 2024

• #5

Rifle isn't mine, if I could get it for the right price I may pull trigger.

 

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Jeremy McLean

Member

• Oct 23, 2024

• #6

I'd be more interested in what the metal looks like below the wood line. You can put lipstick on a pig but it will still be a pig.

 

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MCHammah96

Junior Member

• Oct 23, 2024

• #7

Will try to get some pictures of the metal under the wood.

 

hale1940

Canadian Fabio

• Oct 23, 2024

• #8

Definitely not sanded or messed with.

Some of these Brazilian contract rifles were effectively unissued and were even kept in their original crates until they were sold on the surplus market. Thus, some of them are in literally mint condition.

 

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MCHammah96

Junior Member

• Oct 23, 2024

• #9

Thanks for the input Hale. Even though I've been collecting for some years, I'm still paranoid.