1937 s/243

[CM0087]

After nearly 18 months of owning her, and finally buying myself a decent camera facepalm I finally got around to taking some pics of my modest, but growing, Mauser stable.
After watching the various gun sales websites for 18 months, waiting for one that ticked the boxes (walnut stock, pre-war example, no site hood) I found this one. There are probably already pics of her on another thread started by her previous owner;another Aussie who doesn't mind walnut stocks....
Anyways, here she is. She shoots great, is a bolt-only mismatch (rest matches to the screws), and, my favorite attribute, has almost certainly seen some serious action in her time (possible shrapnel wounds to the stock.)

 

[S/42]

Yes, she was/is lovely. Great character (you didn't show the left butt well ). Regret letting that one go - Borsigwald is one of my favourite makers.

 

[Loewe]

Is that an e/81 waffenamt on the stock, below the serial? Looks like it might be, if so is the waffenamt on any other parts of this rifle?

Often attributed to Simson, which it does show up late in production, it is also known on a couple other makers products, though very rarely and with little consistency. Pretty nice rifle from the looks of it.

 

[CM0087]

S/42;
Yes, the neighbours can look straight into my back yard, so I snapped some quick pics of both of the k98's and put them back inside, missed that one
She still is very lovely, and smells a little like ballistol great stuff, that. If you ever feel the need to let another K98 go for whatever reason, I'll gladly sign the adoption papers LOL

Loewe;
Yes, I am pretty sure from memory it is WaA 81, the numbers are a little hard to make out. But it is not anywhere else, all other WaA are 211. Interesting, though, if it is a Simson WaA...if so, what exactly would they have had to do with K98 production at Borgiswald or other factories? Were they still Simson at this time, or had they changed to BSW?

Thanks for the kind words, guys

Cheers
Chris.

 

[Loewe]

Nothing at all, the waffenamt doesn't represent Simson, rather the inspector at one time inspected Simson production (or an aspect of Simson production). These inspectors moved around, this one apparently quite a bit, you see it most often Simson production in the interwar period, but in the early phases of re-armament also.

I wrote a little about this elsewhere, my thoughts on these early interwar inspectors (represented by waffenamts) and how they moved around in the early phases of re-armament. I think they were more hands on early on in the 1920-30s, less supervising teams, but later the more experienced inspectors were promoted or moved around and either drop off the scene (on production like e/6) or moved around a bit, perhaps training, helping setting up production (like e/46 at Gustloff Weimar in 1939, which lasted a very short time when e/749 took over), or moving around helping out (at Steyr you see some weird waffenamts on their G29ö receivers, which also has e/211 in a short range).

 

[CM0087]

Nothing at all, the waffenamt doesn't represent Simson, rather the inspector at one time inspected Simson production (or an aspect of Simson production). These inspectors moved around, this one apparently quite a bit, you see it most often Simson production in the interwar period, but in the early phases of re-armament also.

I wrote a little about this elsewhere, my thoughts on these early interwar inspectors (represented by waffenamts) and how they moved around in the early phases of re-armament. I think they were more hands on early on in the 1920-30s, less supervising teams, but later the more experienced inspectors were promoted or moved around and either drop off the scene (on production like e/6) or moved around a bit, perhaps training, helping setting up production (like e/46 at Gustloff Weimar in 1939, which lasted a very short time when e/749 took over), or moving around helping out (at Steyr you see some weird waffenamts on their G29ö receivers, which also has e/211 in a short range).

Yeah, right...

It's a good pick up; until now, I knew it was there, but never really thought much about why its a WaA 81 and not a 211 like the rest of the parts.
Thanks for the insight!