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Rare gun. Do you have more pics?

I said it on the other forum, but it's a neat period pistol IMO. Some sort of test piece ( ammo testing, training factory shooters, etc.)

This would make perfect sense. The initial rings were left over commercial components (either from Bruun or from Optikotechnica) and...

The SS M.41 that Ian got to look at seems to have a WaA accepted barrel. It would be interesting to take a closer look at others. The...

Exceptional! You don't see many Gew98s in that shape.

A little while ago, I got a call from my local gun store. He told me a K98k came in that I might be interested in. Well, I checked it...

Mike and I have decided to add Stephan Hansen to the authorship team for the Karabiner Addendum. Stephan was indispensable in research...

I’ve found a couple of things of little significance, but the last find was a piece of silk panties holding the bayonet lug on my zf41

1500 maybe? You don't see these much, so hard to know exactly.

Perfectly normal for these depot builds. Bolts will often have their original French SNs (the Germans usually didn't bother to renumber...

I don't know if you have looked at a lot DDR reworks, but their blueing is often heavily buffed.

No, it was an SS rework, circa 1938. Also, please don't refinish this. The buff and reblue were probably done by the DDR during rework...

Looks real. Reworked by the DDR in 1953 (looks like July maybe).

Could be, yes. HZa Krakau is the most common inspection found on the R35s. I've seen reworks as well as depot builds put to together...

Yes, it's Kg69. Königsberg often used that early style FP.