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It’s a commercial bolt typical of others from the Suhl region during the war, Oberndorf wasn’t the only maker to use pear shaped bolts, many come from suhl and most have a more extended moment arm than an Oberndorf. Serials show up in different places varying by maker, and that’s a typical one.

I got mine all blued but I don’t think I’d recommend that, 90% steel rifle in Texas humidity, yeah, it’s prone to rusting. A couple of times I’ve caught minor surface corrosion starting and easily wiped it off with some ballistol. I habitually try not to overly handle the steel on a rifle, but...

Yeah it’s a complete commercial Oberndorf slapped in an Israeli stock.

Beautiful untouched rifle, good to see you posting some new finds Tristan.

Beautiful rifle Jory, I feel like it’s fairly tough to find one that didn’t go through any apparent depot rework.

Pictures from Mike, nice grouping!

I’m having trouble roughly dating early pistols like Mikes, don’t have the books either. Picked up an A6xxx if I remember right off the top, and can’t figure it out? Love to see your pre alpha Mike.

Oops I see you have THAT rifle now, ha. Possibly one of the latest known? It’s a tough data point to collect of course.

I have a late (for (w) marked rifle) and it does, I also sold a two digit ac43 last year that did too, not sure how many 43’s might have it, often wondered myself?

Not an authentic example

Military cartridges were still forbidden in many countries, which is a lot of the reason behind commercial makers often opting for the .318 bore from what I understand. A Normalisiert chamber is actually a hybrid of the two, the neck and throat are opened more along the lines of the .323...

Ken, I had no luck in the catalogs. I know I saw it, or something extremely close in one as it stuck out to me, but it must have been elsewhere.

Some late Sauer stocks have 30mm discs but it’s quite scarce to see. Your stock looks to have come off a postwar Hungarian rework.

Very cool Georg, I’ve seen one in a catalog, I’ll dig through them when I get home and see if I can find it.

I would have to agree now that I see they continued using the Emil name after their merger. It “could” be built off a prewar Gew98 receiver but it looks more wartime to me the more I look, so I would then shift my guess to about 1919 to about 1923, and if the scope serial puts it in that...

This one is not built on an Oberndorf action, those actions which were sold to the trade will have their serial number on the lower receiver flat along with the Oberndorf internal inspection. This one is simply a reclaimed Gew98 receiver, which many makers did, most did actually.

I’m honestly not positive how they marked guns after their merger, perhaps they continued with the same? Usually around 1923 proof houses started adding a date which yours doesn’t have. That’s usually about the best you can do on Suhl guns, just take from the clues what you can, besides **some...

This rifle is post 1912 by the proofing showing bullet weight only, it’s very likely 1912-14 timeframe. However it could be up to 1919 at which point, Kerner was a joint venture, “Kerner & Funk” and I would presume labeled as such after that point. It’s much tougher and probably about...

Possibly Little House on the Prairie, but could also be a Samantha Doll, dunno, let me check the reference books

What do the fired cases look like and what type of stock is on it? My brother had 36 Oberndorf in walnut that was a good bit lighter than a typical laminate and you could feel the difference in recoil.