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Offline 1marty

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CG Swedish Mauser 1906
« on: December 28, 2008, 01:23:30 PM »
I have  the opportunity to buy the above rifle. The rifle itself is in good condition. The individual started at $400 and is now at $300.The serial numbers all match except for the barrel bands. One thing is that there is no disk on the stock. I was under the impression that all the Swedish Mausers had the disks. Does anyone know why there would be no disk? Is it significant? The stock itself has the usual dings as any military rifle.

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Re: CG Swedish Mauser 1906
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2008, 01:36:20 PM »
Does the wood stock and handguard numbers match the serial number on the receiver?  If it doesn't i wouldn't trust the stock disc anyway. The only thing i would worry about is can she shoot accurately.  I see alot of these were the serial numbers match the bolts only and everything else is mismatched.  This seems to be the norm with the swede's from what i have seen lately.  The $300 price isn't too bad either, these have been going up in price slowly too.  I paid $225 for a 1907 CG M96 a while back and a local gun shop had a M96 for $400 lately too.  For some reason all the surplus guns are priced higher lately too from what i have seen while browsing.

I would tell him there's no stock disc so there's no way of knowing the condition of the bore.  Plus there's numbers that don't match also.  Offer him $225 and show him cash first.  Haggle and go to $250 next if he won't take $225.  Its up to you wether to go to a final offer of $275.  Remember to show the cash and don't show any extra cash.  I would put $225 in one pocket and $25 dollars in two other pockets.  Never show more cash than you need to show.

You can buy a replacement stock disc and screw. 

Maybe someone will know the history about why these were disassembled and seperated and then reassembled in a non serial number matching manner.  The receiver, the trigger housing and the bolt numbers match most of the time.  I have one that has no number on the bolt but that was probably done when the bolt was replaced for some reason during the repair or rearsenal.