Both my grandfathers were veterans of WWII - one was in the 49th AA Brigade, and passed about 12 years ago. I inherited his G29/40 Mauser and am thrilled to have it, even if I am not 100% sure it was actually brought back (I go back and forth on this, subject for another post). My other grandfather was a flight engineer in 8th Air Force and passed away about 15 years ago, and I was happy to receive his medals, ribbons, and patches/badges. However, recently I got in contact with a family member, the subject of guns came up, and asked if I would like his VIS35 he may have brought back with him. Well of course I said yes!







Pictures suck, I know that. Will solve this later.

Not sure how he came into it beyond speculation it was a bring back or how it got to it's current condition. My guess is he maybe traded for it while over there but who knows. Weirdly it came in a Walther P38 shoulder holster so there is some story there, but it's lost now. Unfortunately you can see the finish has been stripped. I honestly don't know if he did that or not, my inkling is not because while quite handy he never did that kind of stuff at home. There is a bit of blue left behind the decocker (along with a number, 0345 which I can't explain and a W)

It is non matching... frame is a C block serial, slide is an H? Hard to tell if that H in the slide is part of the serial or not, barrel matches the slide. Everything on it looks late, the machining on the slide in particular is extremely rough, including a few things that stick out to me as mistakes. Frame isn't much better, grips are a bit crude too. Bore looks serviceable, gun cycles snap caps okay but the decocker doesn't work.

Plan is to clean it up, beyond that I'm not sure. Maybe just clean the metal with some oil and 0000 and leave it. I don't see the point in having it reblued as it won't look that great due to the mediocre surface finish, nor do I have any desire to finish what someone started by polishing it completely or having it nickel plated. Stamps are all still pretty sharp, surprisingly. I will replace the grips with repros though if I decide to shoot it, one is cracked at the bottom.
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