joefrank64k
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Hello everyone!
Long time lurker, first time poster. I tried to follow proper forum etiquette and use your search function, along with your excellent picture reference thread, before posting. I'm hoping some of you folks can chime in and give me an idea of what I may have (or not have!).
I just picked up what appears to be a BNZ 45 Kriegsmodell, Serial #3544, "S" block. The action of the rifle seems straight to me: A mix of blued and phosphate parts; the parts that typically have numbers, have them; and the numbers all match. The screws look perfect. The rifle looks practically unfired...no appreciable wear in the action, the barrel is like a mirror with perfect rifling, the internal parts (trigger, etc) look unworn as well. All of the action parts seem to "hang together" so to speak. Nothing looks (to my untrained eyes) out of place.
Then there's the stock...it also shows very little wear. No bumps or bruises, it's tight, no cracks, etc. BUT...it sure doesn't look like the typical (I know from your forum that 'typical' can vary quite a bit when talking about late-war K98's) BNZ 45 full-kriegsmodell stock. It looks more like the BCD semi-kriegsmodell stocks. It has a drilled buttplate & no stock disc, but it has the bayonet lug, hole for a cleaning rod, and a barrel-band spring. There's a faint stamp on the buttstock, and a few marks in the sling cutout that I can't quite make out.
Inside, there's no numbers anywhere. The inletting is excellent, very tight fit around the trigger guard and barreled action, though there's a bit of a gap between the forward barrel contour and stock. And, this appears to be a white-glued laminate. No evidence of red glue inside the stock, handguard, or buttstock. There's what looks like a third screw hole in the buttstock, under the buttplate (the buttplate has the red primer on the inside, but is unmarked).
Bottom line: I'm not sure if this rifle was cobbled together during the war, right after the war, or last week.
ANYWAY!!! Here's some pics. I tried to cover as many angles as possible. Any information you folks can provide will be appreciated! Thanks in advance for looking and providing your considered opinions.
I'll need to span the pics over two posts, so stand-by to stand-by...
Long time lurker, first time poster. I tried to follow proper forum etiquette and use your search function, along with your excellent picture reference thread, before posting. I'm hoping some of you folks can chime in and give me an idea of what I may have (or not have!).
I just picked up what appears to be a BNZ 45 Kriegsmodell, Serial #3544, "S" block. The action of the rifle seems straight to me: A mix of blued and phosphate parts; the parts that typically have numbers, have them; and the numbers all match. The screws look perfect. The rifle looks practically unfired...no appreciable wear in the action, the barrel is like a mirror with perfect rifling, the internal parts (trigger, etc) look unworn as well. All of the action parts seem to "hang together" so to speak. Nothing looks (to my untrained eyes) out of place.
Then there's the stock...it also shows very little wear. No bumps or bruises, it's tight, no cracks, etc. BUT...it sure doesn't look like the typical (I know from your forum that 'typical' can vary quite a bit when talking about late-war K98's) BNZ 45 full-kriegsmodell stock. It looks more like the BCD semi-kriegsmodell stocks. It has a drilled buttplate & no stock disc, but it has the bayonet lug, hole for a cleaning rod, and a barrel-band spring. There's a faint stamp on the buttstock, and a few marks in the sling cutout that I can't quite make out.
Inside, there's no numbers anywhere. The inletting is excellent, very tight fit around the trigger guard and barreled action, though there's a bit of a gap between the forward barrel contour and stock. And, this appears to be a white-glued laminate. No evidence of red glue inside the stock, handguard, or buttstock. There's what looks like a third screw hole in the buttstock, under the buttplate (the buttplate has the red primer on the inside, but is unmarked).
Bottom line: I'm not sure if this rifle was cobbled together during the war, right after the war, or last week.
ANYWAY!!! Here's some pics. I tried to cover as many angles as possible. Any information you folks can provide will be appreciated! Thanks in advance for looking and providing your considered opinions.
I'll need to span the pics over two posts, so stand-by to stand-by...
