by
soalebm
I have a rifle that is the opposite! it is a vz 24 and it has a German k98 bolt. The gun was rusted and destroyed but the bolt is in amazing 100% blued condition. You can tell they did not spend their lives together. The story I have been told is that those who brought weapons back were able to take captured weapons and sometimes these weapons were in large piles. Rifles would be in one pile and bolts in another. A veteran told me that at the end of the war he and some fellow soldiers had a large group of german soldiers surrender to them. They collected weapons tossing the bolts in one pile and rifles in another he had a rifle that was exactly as you described and this was his reasoning. He said you had to just grab a bolt because they were all mixed up. I wish someday I could have a pile of mausers!!!
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