g33 for review

[ccnrecon]

I am looking for a nice g33. I am considering this one and this one looks pretty good to me. Bolt is not matching. With respect to this rifle, to what extent would a non matching bolt affect the value of this particulars. There is one of these on brocks guns for 5000 but this one seems to be a decent price and nice gun. Thoughts?

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=341047061

[Skipper Greenwade]

I had one very much like that years ago. The mis-matched bolts seem to be pretty common on these; still - at least in my case - it haunted me until I sold the rifle. Of course, back when I bought mine they were going for around $1,000.

If you can live with non-matching bolt, it's probably a good piece to bid on and see if you can get a deal on it. Just be sure beforehand. If every other gun you own is all matching, my gut tells me you'll never be truly happy with it.

My two cents' worth,
Skip

[bodes]

The price is realistic for a mis-matched example.....It even has an original G33/40 bolt, which these are sometimes sold with K98k bolts.....However, IF I were pursuing the piece, I would like to know IF the stock still has it's proofs and serial numbered to the rifle (hopefully to the receiver).....I think that might take some of the sting out of the bolt being mis-matched.....Bodes

[ccnrecon]

Good advice. What do you think about this example?

http://www.brocksguns.com/products/G33/40-RIFLE/5453/

[Bigdibbs88]

I am looking for a nice g33. I am considering this one and this one looks pretty good to me. Bolt is not matching. With respect to this rifle, to what extent would a non matching bolt affect the value of this particulars. There is one of these on brocks guns for 5000 but this one seems to be a decent price and nice gun. Thoughts?

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=341047061

the first rifle you posted looks like the stock has been refinished, the second one is GROSSLY overpriced....

[ccnrecon]

Approximately how much, in your estimation is the 5500 example over priced?

[Bigdibbs88]

Approximately how much, in your estimation is the 5500 example over priced?

IMO 2k overpriced....at minimum $1500 overpriced.

[Gary Cain]

The vast majority of G33/40 bolts are mismatched. I have handled around 100 of them over the years and only 12 were matching.

[Alan Smith]

Any ideas why so many of the G33 rifles on the collector market here in the U.S. have bolts that are mis-matches? From what I understand, the mis-matched bolts are most often correct G33 bolts; they just don't match the rifles.

If a large percentage of the mis-matches were G33 rifles with 98k bolts I would chalk this up to the rifles being pulled by G.I.'s out of surrender piles where bolts had been separated and lots of different rifles mixed together.

I seem to recall seeing G33's advertised by Interarms in the pre-1968 American Rifleman magazines, so I'm assuming that Interarms found a supply of them overseas. I wonder if what we are seeing today is that a large percentage of the G33's on the U.S. market are Interarms imports that came from a source where the G33's were kept together post-war, but the bolts were mixed around between that country's inventory of G33's in the course of post-war use and/or storage?

To me the fact that such a high percentage of G33's on the U.S. market have correct (but mis-matched) G33 bolts is not a random event; it represents a pattern for which a reason exists. Given the much larger number of 98k rifles produced, if this were just random mixes then I think you would expect to see a LOT more G33's with 98k bolts in them.

Any thoughts from the RKI's out there?