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rci2950
08-05-2013, 05:24 PM
I recently acquired this through a trade and i am unsure what it is. I am pretty sure it is german. That part is clear. But there are no manufacture marks on it. All the numbers match even the stock and the mag floorplate. The proof marks all exist, including the little eagle ones with a number 26 under them. There is a strange screw on sight hood that looks a old as the rifle. It is in really nice condition and has a perfect bore. I couldent get a proper picture of the bore. The one i have shows shadows but believe be there are absolutely no marks. I fired 6 shots from it today and at 100 yards it is hitting am 8 inch pie plate off hand each time. I am happy with this rifle as far as rifles go but i want to know exactly what it is.

Thanks

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raxar
08-05-2013, 05:39 PM
I could be wrong but that looks like something that was made up from parts, the reciever is WWI era, the front sight protector is czech, the front barrel band is from a late k98, as is the stock (they also filled in the firing pin take down hole in the buttplate) although the matching bolt has me puzzled

rci2950
08-05-2013, 05:54 PM
I could be wrong but that looks like something that was made up from parts, the reciever is WWI era, the front sight protector is czech, the front barrel band is from a late k98, as is the stock (they also filled in the firing pin take down hole in the buttplate) although the matching bolt has me puzzled

what has me puzzled is that all the numbers match...

raxar
08-05-2013, 06:03 PM
I'm fairly certain those are polish eagle proof marks, but i haven't been able to find a polish mauser that looks like that

Partisan1983
08-05-2013, 06:51 PM
I don't know shit about Mausers....but I think she looks good!

Schuetzenman
08-05-2013, 08:50 PM
I could be wrong but that looks like something that was made up from parts, the reciever is WWI era, the front sight protector is czech, the front barrel band is from a late k98, as is the stock (they also filled in the firing pin take down hole in the buttplate) although the matching bolt has me puzzled

That's my take on it as well. It is a hodge-podge of different era parts. It has Imperal eagles, pre Nazi Germany. The receiver has been ground. The front sight shield is definitely Czech off a VZ24. Had one like it. The front barrel band is late war stamped sheet metal, the rear band is milled though crudely. The stock is a K98k type, GEW98 references a WW1 version of the Mauser rifle used by the Germans.

rci2950
08-06-2013, 03:59 AM
But who would have done this?

Schuetzenman
08-06-2013, 06:46 PM
But who would have done this?

No way to tell for sure. Could of been done in Canada, could of been done near the end of WWII to convert an old WWI weapon to the shorter K98k length. Could of been done by the Turks, though they usually had the long GEW type rifles. Turned them into M38 Turks. More I think about it the more I think it was probably done in Germany near the end of the war and possibly in the Czechoslovakia possibly by conscript labor. If you take the front sight hood off, is there a slot on each side of the front sight base. If so then it is a German front sight that just has a VZ front sight hood placed on it.

rci2950
08-06-2013, 06:48 PM
ah frig

to the auction block it goes.

I give up.

raxar
08-06-2013, 07:10 PM
why? that thing would be an awesome shooter. If it didn't have to involve some sort of smuggling operation I'd offer to buy it from you.

Helen Keller
08-06-2013, 07:16 PM
why? that thing would be an awesome shooter. If it didn't have to involve some sort of smuggling operation I'd offer to buy it from you.

how bout it.. too damn bad he's in canada.

Penguin
08-06-2013, 07:18 PM
I don't know shit about Mausers....but I think she looks good!

Same here I think it looks like a great rifle even if no one here knows exactly what it is yet.

Schuetzenman
08-06-2013, 07:21 PM
This image I tracked the 3 markings of the imperial eagle, the crown and the "U" to Wilhelm-Gustloff-Werke, Weimar . If so it might of been marked BCD on the receiver ring that has been ground down.
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raxar
08-06-2013, 07:24 PM
how bout it.. too damn bad he's in canada.

where there's a will there's a way


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BVjWbiT3mk

HEY RCI, how long till those guys get out of jail again?

l921428x
08-07-2013, 03:00 AM
if it shoots good it is a keeper. The rifle is unique.

rci2950
08-07-2013, 07:31 AM
Yes it definitely shoots good and is cosmetically almost perfect.

Your right.

Why jump to conclusions. I always do that and end up regretting selling something later.

rci2950
08-07-2013, 07:38 AM
where there's a will there's a way


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BVjWbiT3mk

HEY RCI, how long till those guys get out of jail again?

They are currently working on something new. Interestingly enough I could see the old filming site if i walked a few hundred yards from my house. The old site was completely cleaned up and i don't know where they are filming now but something is in the mix.

And to answer the question people are wondering. Yes people around here act like that.

Gunsmoke
08-19-2013, 10:15 AM
An orgy of Mauser Parts + stock = rifle Oh by the way the safety is forced matched to rifle....electro penciled from Russia with love.