Re: Show 'em
Yeah there is a difference between a rifle that has different numbers on everything, and one where were every single part on it is matched, and the bolt has every single number matched, but different, and one where everything matches, 100%. the rifle SN is 6500 and even the Barrel band spring bar has 6500 stamped on it. it is the most heavily numbered Mauser of the 12 or so I own. The thing thats tragic is the Mount and scope being gone, and the original bolt not being there. I imagine the guy just picked up a bolt from a pile after he was handed the rifle.
Very common for surrendered rifles to be seperated from the bolt, so yeah what I said was correct, the bolt is not a mix master, and neither is the rest of the rifle, Just the TWO do not match each other. It was more of a statement to say that the rifle is not a mixmaster like most of the RC or refurbed ones out there are. I didn't say 100% matching, I said all matching but the bolt and qualified the statement. Its a mismatch, but to a much less often seen extent. Never tried to portray it as anything else, just describing the degree of mismatching, by seperating the rifle into its two major components that did match. Many of the bring backs are like this, but most of the Mausers out there are not, having nearly every piece being mismatched or force matched. true 100% matching Mauseres are hard to come by and expensive when you do see them.
Make sense? You read into it too much, man.
I'll try to be clearer in the future so as not to be misunderstood, I just thought everyone would get what I was saying. So what I mean to say is that it has matching numbers on all its components, but the bolt does not match the reciever, although it has matching numbers on all of its components. There that takes the " all matching" statement away and makes everything better.
