.22 Mauser Sports Rifle

[tgn]

I agree with you. Tim. Ever the Germans were not infallible in their insatiable need to number everything. I have seen the number 96 become 69 on a safety of a K98. Obviously done at the factory.

Tom

[TP Alexander]

I agree with you. Tim. Ever the Germans were not infallible in their insatiable need to number everything. I have seen the number 96 become 69 on a safety of a K98. Obviously done at the factory.

Tom

Hey Tom!
How ya' doing up thar' (I'm perfecting my accent) in frigid Chicawgey!??
Did 'yer state ever pass a budget? Or is Madigan still trying to play Kim Jung Un?
I have also had a P38, a byf44 I think, that was either 10 digits or a 100 digits off...the same kinda' thang.
Greetings from getting ever warmer Tennessee!
Timmy

[luftmacher]

This gun was assembled at/by Haenel FOR Genschow, prior to Geco getting tooled up to make their own DSMs at Spandau. Its serial number is thus from the same range as are those on DSMs marked "Waffenstadt Suhl" on the receiver, which was for the consortium that made DSMs in that city. If you were to remove the trigger housing, you would see the "double S" mark for J.P.Sauer, who made the receivers for that consortium. The lead firm was Gebrüder Rempt, and the assembly point was C.G.Haenel, as noted.
The muzzle cap has come from a Simson gun, and likely was "swapped" inadvertently during a cleaning session, or ? whenever.
Steve

[TP Alexander]

This gun was assembled at/by Haenel FOR Genschow, prior to Geco getting tooled up to make their own DSMs at Spandau. Its serial number is thus from the same range as are those on DSMs marked "Waffenstadt Suhl" on the receiver, which was for the consortium that made DSMs in that city. If you were to remove the trigger housing, you would see the "double S" mark for J.P.Sauer, who made the receivers for that consortium. The lead firm was Gebrüder Rempt, and the assembly point was C.G.Haenel, as noted.
The muzzle cap has come from a Simson gun, and likely was "swapped" inadvertently during a cleaning session, or ? whenever.
Steve

Thanx for that info. One of the reasons that I took pictures of all the screws heads was to show that no one has (yet!) taken it apart. Everything is untouched, at present.

[Bob Hritz]

Was there ever a magazine fed version of the sport model in .22 caliber?

Bob Hritz

[luftmacher]

Was there ever a magazine fed version of the sport model in .22 caliber?

Bob Hritz

Not in either of the two "official" trainers---the DSM and KKW---selected by the SA. Ideally, they would have liked to have had a removable 5-round clip (loadable from stripper clips, also) but the additional cost was deemed prohibitive. Walther and Mauser both had patents for such as a contingency, in case the SA ever decided to approve the extra cost.

Steve

[Bill Grist]

Very Nice DSM 34 with Simpson muzzle cover...BILL

[TP Alexander]

There is a small piece that was busted off the bottom of the flip-up muzzle cover.
And the cover was definitely for a .22, not an 8MM switched oer to the DSM.

[luftmacher]

These muzzle covers came as a standard accessory with both the DSM and with Simson's W625 series of their own design. Since both models were introduced just as the company was being taken over and changed to Berlin-Suhler-Waffenfabrik (BSW), surviving examples with the Simson trademark are quite rare---in any condition.
Steve

[JoeW]

Sometimes the rifle was shot with the muzzle cover closed. I have a Walther cover showing an obvious bullet through the center, opening it up like a tin can. But the pieces would be tapped back together. Perhaps the one was fired with the cover partially opened and the tit was shot off.