East German Refurb - Details?

H Wally

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So, my first forray into mausers made in the last century. I know it's an east german refurb, but very little else. Who knows something? The serial number is 4 digits long. I've never seen front sights like those, and only last night learned of the bolt takedown buttplate that's on some mausers (re: http://tirmilitairefabrice.ifrance.com/site mauser1/Kar 98 k.htm )

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THe front sight is standard, it's actually the hood that's different. THe East German's used the Czech style front sight protector.

Most, if not all, of these rifles were issued to the East German police. It'll likley have a brand new pristing barrel, added post war. The NAZI stamps will probably be peened, and the inspector proofs on the left of the receiver ring will be scrubbed and replaced with the 4-digit serial number. Every part will be force matched, down to the firing pin.
A lot had the handguard replaced with the barrel and the safety wing electro penciled, looks you got one of the ones with a matching handguard.
The stock is also likley post-war production, check for stamps under the wrist. It's the semi-Kriegsmodel variant without the takedown disk, that's what the hole in the buttplate is for.

These are really nice rifles, I'd say probably the nicest of the refurb programs.

Nice code by the way, here's my bcd 43. Welcome to the club.
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dou is Waffen Wereke Bystrica in Czechoslovakia, BRNO's sister-plant. It is an East German refurb, what I call the late-pattern.

Early East-German reworks will often retain the original barrel, are force-matched and often have replacement beech handguarde, non-laminate. The safety is almost always electro-pencilled matching. they usually have semi-kriegsmodel stocks.

The late-pattern reworks are generally not force-matched (ie, left mis-matched) but refurbed to like new, usually with new barrel, but usually also with laminate handguards. They sometimes are stocked in refurbished wartime laminate stocks, and also sometimes post-war semi-kriegsmodel stocks.

Replacement stocks generally came from Czechoslovakia, as do the front sights. Both types had Czech sights, unless replaced after being surplused. It is suspected that the "east German Refurbs" were likely done under contract in Czechoslovakia, or that czechoslovakia provided the parts to East Germany.

The lesser-known "third type" are the tgf50 coded rifles made in small numbers in czachoslovakia in 1950 for East Germany. They were new production rifles in 1950.
 
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