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Nice rolling block carbine....You can leave that at my house anytime...
Andy
Andy
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Nice rolling block carbine....You can leave that at my house anytime...
Andy
Nice rolling block carbine....You can leave that at my house anytime...
Andy
If it is in the condition you say it is...I'd think about rebarreling / rechambering it to .30-30 and clean up the stock , etc...Curious what you'd do with it? It's pretty ratty! Barrel throat is all eaten up... Serious rust, pitting over the rest of the metal. I was going to sell it and turn it into something built in the 1900s that I could shoot. I'm fond of one o' them "Model of 1917" rifles or, mmm, an 03A3...Mmm.
If it is in the condition you say it is...I'd think about rebarreling / rechambering it to .30-30 and clean up the stock , etc...
Andy
How is the breech face on the rolling block?
As long as the breech face (yes, bolt face if you prefer), then the rifle still has good bones! I'm sure there's something that could be done to make it a shooter again!
Numbers all match. I think it's got the original sling, though there are no markings on it.
Machined trigger guard and finger grooves tell me ES340N from 1930 on, but lack of receiver grooves and serial number that is supposed to start with '8' has me confungled.
Yours looks to have the same sights, but the bolt handle and stock are different. Of the few I've seen on-line they had my same stock and bolt handle. The differences have been a checkered trigger guard and placement of the safety. That's all I can think of now anyway. Well, there's a hood for the front sight, but I think all sights have the groove in the base for the hood.
I guess I hadn't looked all that deep before.
This...
Mauser .22 Target Rifle
Says '24-'29. Has finger groove. And serial starting with (8) though?
And ES340N changed safety.?.
A lot changed with the addition of the 'N' - which stood for 'Neu' - new model. The Mauser company archivist, Jon Speed, in his book 'Mauser Smallbores - Sporting, Target & Training Rifles' shows a manufacturing sequence of the ES40N, and also a single photo of an early version with a sliding safety, grooved forend, chequered pistol grip with serial #24467, so you are probably correct in all your comments. He further comments that this version was available right up to 1929, when the suffix 'N' model came to the market with a rotating safety and a receiver grooved to take a scope or diopter sight.
Sights on the ES and MS350B were capable of being moved up and down on long grooves machined into the barrel, ostensibly for the purpose of obtaining the best sight picture. However, the letter 'N' under the track just happens to coincide with the sight radius of the Gewehr 98[K]. Lucky guess, eh?