Witness Mark and Barrel Questions

Dwight Gruber · 03-10-2003, 10:35 AM

Corresponding questions need to be answered about authorized rebarrelling practices. At what level was barrel removal and replacement accomplished--field repair level? armory? some intermediate repair depot? The power-proofing procedures presented in GÃ?Â¶rtz & Bryans (p.119) for replaced barrels imply that this was an armory-level repair. Were replaced barrels stamped with serial numbers to match the weapon? Are there regulations extant which detail these specifications?

The example below is a 1936 S/42, a suspected re-barrel. Evidence is beginning to appear which calls into question such suspicions based solely on witness marks as pictured. What other visible characteristics might support it as authentic or rebarrel? I certainly wonder about the way the serial number is stamped. The right side of the barrel does bear the same Mauser acceptance eagle (Costanzo, p.114, mark 176) as the receiver.

--Dwight

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03-10-2003, 10:35 AM	#34
Dwight Gruber User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 3,908 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1,330 Times in 435 Posts	Corresponding questions need to be answered about authorized rebarrelling practices. At what level was barrel removal and replacement accomplished--field repair level? armory? some intermediate repair depot? The power-proofing procedures presented in GÃ?Â¶rtz & Bryans (p.119) for replaced barrels imply that this was an armory-level repair. Were replaced barrels stamped with serial numbers to match the weapon? Are there regulations extant which detail these specifications? The example below is a 1936 S/42, a suspected re-barrel. Evidence is beginning to appear which calls into question such suspicions based solely on witness marks as pictured. What other visible characteristics might support it as authentic or rebarrel? I certainly wonder about the way the serial number is stamped. The right side of the barrel does bear the same Mauser acceptance eagle (Costanzo, p.114, mark 176) as the receiver. --Dwight