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Excellent pickup Sam!

That's a good, honest gewehr. I'm inclined to also think battle damage, a neat plus....

Wow, great pickup Chris!

From the pic you've shown, the wood is still too "proud" around the disk. The odds are really against it being unit marked in 1916. I'd let it go...

Wow, what a stunning gewehr!

Excellent pickup!

I'm curious as to their reason for sanding....

As I recall this one had worn an action cover at one time as it exhibited the telltale black stained wood below the barrel/in front of the receiver.

As I recall this was an SoS pickup from many years ago.

I was referring to a nice one he already got from me awhile back...not the naval one, lol.

I just need's a nice G98m sling to compliment it...

The rear sight leaf was probably a part swap from years ago. Most of my gewehr's pics were not posted here. Some were posted years ago on Gunboards.

How long did it finally take to get it in hand?

I believe that stock repair at the recoil lug was done by Bill Reed. I looked through the notes in my notebook & didn't see anything though. I'm not 100% sure, too many years ago, lol.

Excellent pickup & photo spread!

Decent Simson's are tough to locate. Good pick up Chris.

It's a common problem when mating a mauser cockpiece to firing pin, it's all in the dimensions/tolerances. I had the exact problem once with an armorer's pin. I carefully mounted the cockpiece in a vice, lubed up the pin lugs, & slowly got the firing pin worked on using a small wrench on the...

Good snag & of course great pics!

Probably, it's from Gunboards many years ago. I believe I've also got a K98k floorplate #10000 pic, along with a P.08 image.

1916 Danzig Gew98, serial # 10000pp