WOW thats a lot of Mausers!!

[GeeRam]

Well, heading back to Norwegian Mausers……
As promised, as few photos of my 1940 Mauser-Borsigwalde produced K98k, originally issued to the Kriegsmarine and post WW2 to the Royal Norwegian Navy. A ‘g’ block number probably means it was made around May/June 1940 so didn’t go to Norway during the initial invasion of April 1940, and likely ended up there later on. Who knows, it may have even got there aboard the Bismark, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst etc.
Its all matching (even down to the original floor plate screws) with the exception of the bolt assembly and the butt plate. Bizarrely, the bolt assembly is very close in number being a similar high 9000 number, but in the next letter block, although lack of Waffenamt codes on everything other than the safety lever suggest a later than 1940 bolt? And also strangely, the butt plate is also a high 9000 number as well, but ‘o’ block, and is a ‘37’ code JP Sauer marked one, but probably 1939/40 timeframe so similar to the rifle. I suspect that maybe a post Norwegian service replacement though.

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