GunnyUSMC
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Over the years I’ve picked up a few VZ24 Mausers, I have seven of them now.
Romanian contract VZ24’s have a two letter prefix at the beginning of the SN#. The first letter is a block number. There were 25,000 guns per block. The second letter is an R, which stands for Romania.
Romania adopted the VZ24 in the 1920’s . The first two years of production the rifles had the royal crest for the king of Romania. This rifle was most likely made in the second year of production. It has a scrubbed royal crest.
This rifle has been sitting in my attic since the floor of 2016. I took in down the other day because, I have a plan for it, but it’s just a little to dirty so, it will get a little clean up.
It’s a little rough, but the plan is to just clean and make any repairs that are needed.
The handguard has a few cracks at the rear.
If you look close you can see small shiny dots. Those are bumps of dried cosmoline on the surface of the stock.
The stock will be scrubbed clean of the dirt and some of the soaked in cosmoline will be removed.
No sanding will be done. I’ll Bone the stock after it is cleaned.
Romanian contract VZ24’s have a two letter prefix at the beginning of the SN#. The first letter is a block number. There were 25,000 guns per block. The second letter is an R, which stands for Romania.
Romania adopted the VZ24 in the 1920’s . The first two years of production the rifles had the royal crest for the king of Romania. This rifle was most likely made in the second year of production. It has a scrubbed royal crest.
This rifle has been sitting in my attic since the floor of 2016. I took in down the other day because, I have a plan for it, but it’s just a little to dirty so, it will get a little clean up.
It’s a little rough, but the plan is to just clean and make any repairs that are needed.
The handguard has a few cracks at the rear.
If you look close you can see small shiny dots. Those are bumps of dried cosmoline on the surface of the stock.
The stock will be scrubbed clean of the dirt and some of the soaked in cosmoline will be removed.
No sanding will be done. I’ll Bone the stock after it is cleaned.