1941 CE Mauser, J.P. Sauer & Sohn Suhl Question

[Mr. Mister]

It's 70+ years old Homey and from the losing side. Yet I don’t think it was ever in an arsenal of the Eastern Block.

Are you in the Sacramento area? Always looking for fellow MILSURP collectors who are local.

[jmoore]

Thanks for the photos. The fact that the number is now on the bottom - and the appearance of the loop - confirms my suspicion expressed in the previous post. I.e. it was a perfectly standard K98-style upper band that was "beaten into submission".

The good close up photos seems to show planishing marks from a smooth face hammer. It may be possible to feel the hammer impressions as irregularities in the contour. Pretty well executed, and not recently. Also note the less than precise fit of the band to the stock in places.

But why?

[Calif-Steve]

Mr. Mister: I'm in the Bay Area. We have 2-3 Military Bolt Matches per year over here. Lots of Sacto guys drive over. The Swiss guys are having a Swiss G1911/K31 match next (?) month in Salinas. Im driving down for it. All prone match 30 rds. Sounds like fun to me. By the way, I shot my 1917 Oberndorf G98 at the last Military Match. Just plain fun.

[Mr. Mister]

That sounds like fun Steve.

My old hunting club use to have MILSURP shoots out at the Ione Range (Folsom Gun Club near Ione Ca.).

I placed with my Enfield as was respectable with my Carcano and Mosin. Lots of fun.

We also do a poker shoot. That's when we take a poster with all 52 playing cards on it in random order and get 5 shots to make your best hand. It's 100 yards open sights, the bullet hole has to be within the whole card to count. Each shooter has a hand held copy of their target showing where the cards are on the target. Sounds easy but it's harder than it sounds.

The Lincoln Ca. range has a M1 Garand Hi-Power shoot too. I've never shot in it but watched a match once.

Keep in touch.