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Wonder if it is the same guy selling the similar products on ebay?

to add to 6mm talks here from French lists is the SN 10 rifle 1902. Jon Happy to send you the images direct, send me a pm with your email address.

Buttplate is Argentine and the screw is Turkish.

Indeed he does! Just waiting on me to post them up: to add to the 6mm rifle report here are some Ballistic reports some direct from Paul Mauser who wrote up the Secret Marked doc. Accuracy was not good if to much wind at play. With new powders Pressures were to high. Regards, Jon

Thank you for the detailed pictures, those are great. I found it very interesting when I first looked at pictures of one of these the trigger assembly is a very similar to the pre-war Haenel air rifle system. I don't have any other pre-war German air rifles to compare it to, but, the...

Jon told me there was a 1901 patent for the firing pin, low and behold, there is! At half his age, my memory isn't half as good! D. R. G. M. 154915 vom 22. Mai 1901. Schlagbolzensicherung, bestehend aus an dem Schlagbolzenteller angebrachten, in korrespondierende Nuten der Kammer passenden...

A few other interesting notes. 300m sight base, the range along with the sight itself is interesting as it is different as you mentioned from the standard. Early style non chamfered bayonet lug - this is the 1898 - 1902 design. The stock A marking is interesting, as I have a stock with the...

Absolutely fantastic rifle! Very interesting features as well. Firing pin is like the Siamese rifles, I haven’t confirmed but plan to this year, that the Oberndorf Mauser rifles built for Siam have this feature. The bolt is very interesting, fixed rotating extractor like the 1889-1891...

Interested to hear folks input on this. I had *hoped* that it would slip through the cracks un noticed in its sporterized condition and mis labeling. I thought it was funny they labeled it as SN 35, mistaking the E35 as the serial, when in fact, it was 1. I have not seen the Police marking in...

Here is the 1938 book on 1937 hunting convention. What is cool is Hermann Göring personally signed some of these books as he was the driver of this project. Most Göring signatures were done with a Stamp. Sadly there are few arms or scope pics but hundreds of show related pics. The Mauser...

Jon Speed sent some pictures from the “Waidwerk Der Welk” Book I will post later this evening.

Very cool! Thanks for sharing. I wonder if you were to take the time and look through some period newspapers if you could find some pictures?

There are a few things to consider here. Today we have a notion that everything that fits together, should fully, fit together. That is, screws should fit flush with their counterbores. When looking at the original drawings, the depth of counterbore is not dimensioned, at all, however the...

Can you expand on this? Curious to know more!

Chris can disagree with me, and I’ll be happy for it, but my opinion is that not all parts were acceptance marked to begin with. A random guess this morning would be a low end of 10% with a high of maybe 30% weren’t inspected coming out of the factories. Non essential parts like the sling...

Your last picture shows a quick detach with the Brazilian contract 1908 acceptance mark. Were there some left over and in Germany at the start of WWI? Most certainly. Where they used by the German military during WWI? Given the number of arms and material they acquired it is likely.

Those are the correct screws. When you install the screws the small set screw should be backed out. Once the action screw is tight, you tighten the small locking screw. This was their “first” attempt at making a locking screw. I would definitely keep those, even if you choose to replace them...

It can really vary depending on maker and condition, and the duffle cut itself. The last one I bought was a nice rifle, at a highly attended online auction, which went for $350. After fees, shipping, etc it was probably closer to $450.

Well yes, but no. It is a Chilean, but there is a little more to the story. This was a contract rifle built by DWM, typically ascribed to the African countries, in this case ZAR, which was supposedly turned back by British blockade and ultimately sold to Chile. It is an 1893 action, not the...

Very cool rifle! Thanks for sharing.