Have you seen this roll mark? MORE PICS

bpost

I can't quite make out what it is, it looks like a guy on a horse with BAY ????? under it.....







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47studebaker

looks like a "knight on his charger", see the shield and lance ?

perry shooter

looks like Bayard PIEPER built from Herstal Belgium Bolt action rifle receiver

EDIT OK but my eyes damn sure must be tricking me I see 1918
on the receiver date

bpost

quote:Originally posted by perry shooter
looks like Bayard PIEPER built from Herstal Belgium Bolt action rifle receiver

Karl, it is on the 1918 Spandau receiver sporterized into a 30-06. The barrel was dirty but looks essentially unfired. The barrel date is 1988 if my eyes are not tricking me.

Is that the place that put the barrel on the receiver?

perry shooter

WOW i don't think a company would have enough SPANDAU receivers to sportize a bunch of them . if you look at first picture you can read BAY and second picture you can see ARD?2
BAYARD IS A BRAND / MAKER. OF FIRE-ARMS?2



EDIT OK I am really confused I thought you were asking about the Roll mark It looks to me the roll mark is on the receiver not the barrel in fact I don't see any pictures of just the barrel

p3skyking

The Bayard stamp has nothing to do with the 30-06 barrel.

wallie

German (Prussian) state arsenal located in Spandau.Germany through WW-1

rufe-snow

The knight on horseback, and the name "Bayard". Were trademarks used by a large Belgian firearms company. Their name in French, was Anciens Establissements Pieper.

My reference states that they went out of business, shortly after W W II. Likely they refurbished the G 98, after World War I. This was years before it was rebarreled, and D & T'd here in the States.

wallie

gunut 1

Pieper/Bayard for sure....

toad67

http://www.GunBroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=451114971