No small or large crowns on this Sauer Büchsflinte. The story goes there in the proximity fo the Battle of the Bulge there was a pile of longarms that GIs were instructed to dispose of. So a GI from Cullman, Alabama selected the most unique one he could locate in the pile which was the Combo. The GI broke the stock to get it in his rolled up sleeping bag and shipped the components home to his wife in Cullman, Alabama. Then the longarm was sent to Tampa to have a new stock fitted. There was some issue there with the gunsmith, or firearms merchant, attempting to keep the repaired Combo. But it was brought home to Cullman, Alabama.





I've seen the "C" on the bottom of the rear lug before. There's an "E" on the previous one.

I would venture a guess that the intertwined "SuS" stamp on the flats is a Sauer process mark and more than likely replaced the Caveman with a Staff. So could the longarm have been completed at the Sauer facility?



Kind Regards,

Raimey
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