Acceptance on bolts and trigger guards on wartime makers can be difficult because of sub-contracting.
Speculating on the maker of a bolt maker is problematic, but in many cases it is possible to be accurate. I would appreciate an answer (maybe there is more than one) to this question. If there is a system it may apply to the Gew. Storz's book does not seem to help with this, excellent though it is.
I suspect that the underside of the bolt root may be the clue, but I don't know that for sure. Then, I also have a couple of rifles where I have purchased German Gew 98 bolts to replace missing or incorrect items. I have a couple of rifles that are bolt-matching and appear all original, but that is not enough data to tell me how a bolt can be identified to a specific arsenal. It's a matter of curiosity, and not a critical requirement, of course. The bolts headspace fine, of course, but who knows if they came from the same factory that made the receiver. I believe it was done by German ordnance, and not by bubba. I have two Gew 98 rifles that apparently were re-worked during WW1, as the bolts have been re-numbered. The reason that I ask this is to know where the bolts come from in bolt-mismatch rifles. Are there any markings that link the bolts directly to certain arsenals? I have tried to "mine " this forum for that information, but don't seem to make the connections, even from the pictures in the stickies. I have tried for a while to figure out the origins of the bolts in my rifles as to the arsenals that made them. In a recent post, the moderator identified a bolt as having been made at Spandau.
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