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musketshooter
09-07-2014, 09:46
Here is a picture of three of my all matching vet bring-backs. Two of them were sent back from Italy by my wife's uncle. I have the letter he sent home saying he had sent them.
ebeeby
09-07-2014, 10:01
Nice!
dave
09-08-2014, 04:43
Are they matched? If not what is m/m? The s/42G is a gem!
musketshooter
09-08-2014, 06:59
They are 100 % correct and matching. I doubt that the metal has been out of the wood since built.
Shooter5
09-08-2014, 02:52
Neato! Post the documentation also. I have a "bring-back" 98k that ended up staying in Germany with the Occupation Forces which was sold to another GI who had it sporterized by a German gunsmith with a scope, claw mounts, and butter knife handle. I have all the documents from the capture papers to the gunsmithing to its US return. Its very neat history. Its not a Westley Richards best gun but its decent and still hunts.
da gimp
09-08-2014, 03:26
congrats musket, 3 very nice old rifles sir...... & To Shooter5, heck if you can, please post pix of yours............. During the Battle of the Bulge, my dad was wounded by a German sniper. Some of the guys in dad's company put paid to him & got the scope & the leather case for it & gave it to dad..........luckily he was only grazed. Dad couldn't drag the entire rifle around with them. I was the lucky one to inherit it............ So heck I'd enjoy seeing pix of yours sir, if you can.
Shooter5
09-08-2014, 07:02
congrats musket, 3 very nice old rifles sir...... & To Shooter5, heck if you can, please post pix of yours............. During the Battle of the Bulge, my dad was wounded by a German sniper. Some of the guys in dad's company put paid to him & got the scope & the leather case for it & gave it to dad..........luckily he was only grazed. Dad couldn't drag the entire rifle around with them. I was the lucky one to inherit it............ So heck I'd enjoy seeing pix of yours sir, if you can.

I'll do that once we unpack from another PCS. Interesting story about your father! One of my great-uncles was KIA just before the Bulge and is buried in Lorraine, France. I kick myself for not keeping an SVD scope we acquired in Mess-O-potamia...obviously couldn't bring back the rifle. At the time, I cared less about souvenirs.

http://www.abmc.gov/search-abmc-burials-and-memorializations/detail/WWII_48499#.VA5fVUuvvlI