In the past I have owned a large number of old military surplus guns, some in really poor condition - but I have never,Įver seen problems with the rear sights at this scale. Is completely unacceptable even for a military surplus rifle. Which would result in one foot spread in point of impact at 100 yards - just from the sights alone. In almost every rilfe - safe for maybe five out of fifty five - the sights moved in horizontal plane by 1/16th of an inch, and, in several cases, the whole fron sight assembly rotating around the barrel:Īlmost all rifles had really bad problems with the rear sights. There were a number of rifles where front sights were broken - either crooked. This is how the correct handguard should look like: Sights and often the gaps between the rear sights and the wood: In bent and sometimes broken metal housing. Many handguards seem to not match the rifles on which they were installed, and were crudely jammed into the rifles, resulting rotten to the point where iron parts do not fit. In addition to being simply beat up, majority of stocks are cracked, missing pieces of wood. In my 10+ years of collecting military surplus rifles, I have never before seen Stocks are in horrible shape in all of these rifles. Cracked and beaten stocks in poor codition The side of the magazine follower often gets lodged into the gap, disabling the function of the magazine. Because the parts were foreign, in many casesĪs a result, on these rifles there was a gap between the magazine well and the receiver. This is not an innocent substitution - it happens to affect the action of the rifle. How magazine bottom should look on a real Spanish Mauser: The definition of 'good condition' from NRA - the standard definition used in the industry, specifically says that replacement parts should be 'minor'.įor example, the magazine metal on majority of the rifles was incorrect - it came from a mixed bag that contained K98, Yugoslavian, and Spanish parts. That alone of course precludes from grading the guns as 'good' as they weren't original rifle when imported - they were assembled from a grab bag of parts. Or 'barreled action', meaning that the gun was imported just as action, without bolt or stock (and stickers had text to that effect).

About one quarter was marked as 'GI' - for 'good, incomplete', and the rest were marked as 'BA'. Meaning that the guns were incomplete and in poor condition. About half of the guns were marked as 'PI' - for 'poor, incomplete', To start, the guns still bear the original Samco tags with the importer's original grading. Unfortunately, these guns are very far from this definition. Principal letters, numerals and design on metal legible wood refinished, scratched bruised or minor cracks repaired in good working order. Some minor replacement parts metal smoothly rusted or lightly pitted in places, cleaned or re-blued

Spanish mauser 1916 parts