A couple of Danzig/Depot guns.

I'm doing some cleaning out and was getting ready to list these so I thought I would post them up here first.

Right up front, neither one is a great collectors piece. Bubba f@#$ked both of them up. The 98 worse than the 88.


#1 Gew 88-89 Danzig receiver and that's about it from Danzig in 89 for this one. The neat thing about this one is that bolt and the barrel have been renumbered to match the stock. IIRC the barrel is actually the control part in Germany unlike the US. I wonder why they did not renumber the stock/bolt to match the original barrel.

Buttplate is marked 11/K Kassel? with a small L down low.

One band matches but that is it.

Sadly Bubba lightly sanded and hit this one with BLO or something making it hard to read the proof marks. Still an interesting look at the Imperial German depot/rework process.

Gew 98 15 Danzig

This one bubba really messed up. It had a high gloss finish on it when I picked it up. It was hideous. I have stripped most of it and was thinking about restoring it but I'm not really motivated.

This is a typical rework. Stock is renumbered. Bolt is also. FP/TG match receiver, bands are m/m. The buttplate shows a lot of history. It is unit marked but it must be to the original action.

The neat thing about this one is the stock repairs near the rear sight. One is reasonably large. The other one is REALLY big. The original gun must have taken quite a hit there, probably destroyed the barrel.

EDIT>>The pics are not clear on the the stock repairs. I will do a couple more in the next post.

Stock repair pics.

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Rich,

It's a shame bubba slathered something on that 15 Danzig stock. It's a heck of a neat depot gun otherwise. That repair is pretty great.

That 88 is pretty neat as well..do you have better photos of the wrist and keel of the stock?

Chris,

Yeah...I really like the 15 Danzig BUT I get really ticked off looking at it, knowing what it is.

I will try for some better pics of the wrist and keel. However, I'm not hopeful. What ever is on the stock seems to have filled in the markings.

Hey Rich,

What unit is that marked to? I can make out 15X.R.10.1X5

OzzMan said:

Hey Rich,

What unit is that marked to? I can make out 15X.R.10.1X5

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Here you go.

chrisftk said:

Rich,

It's a shame bubba slathered something on that 15 Danzig stock. It's a heck of a neat depot gun otherwise. That repair is pretty great.

That 88 is pretty neat as well..do you have better photos of the wrist and keel of the stock?

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Chris, best I can do. What ever bubba slathered on this one is obscuring the markings.

fireman said:

Chris, best I can do. What ever bubba slathered on this one is obscuring the markings.

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Thanks Rich! It's a shame baba didn't use something a little more removable like shellack..haha.