Amberg 1913

toulon44

toulon44

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just to show you my AMBERG 13 G98 , imédiat pré ww1 , matching except the safety , original was broken and i've replaced this last to can fire the rile at the range .
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Excellent. My 1913 Amberg is a bolt mismatch , but it's marked on the disc to the 68th Inf Regt ( prussian ) . I your rifle was a pioneer company. At first some collectors poo pooed the Amberg 1913 being prussian and legit..but I saved pics of the rusted disc in place before I removed the corrosion. Then Storz's book came about and detailed how Amberg was forced to release gew98's in store ( unissued ) to prussian regiments being equipped very early in the war.
I assume your rifle has been rechanbered to something like 8x60 to be legal ?.
 
gew98 said:
Excellent. My 1913 Amberg is a bolt mismatch , but it's marked on the disc to the 68th Inf Regt ( prussian ) . I your rifle was a pioneer company. At first some collectors poo pooed the Amberg 1913 being prussian and legit..but I saved pics of the rusted disc in place before I removed the corrosion. Then Storz's book came about and detailed how Amberg was forced to release gew98's in store ( unissued ) to prussian regiments being equipped very early in the war.
I assume your rifle has been rechanbered to something like 8x60 to be legal ?.
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thanks for your input , about the caliber no! it is in original configuration 8x57 IS now in France we can get rifles without limit if we are sporting shooter or hunter with licence and this since 2 years.a good thing for us isn't it ?
 
It is a great thing, both the rifle and that you can keep it as manufactured! There are some nice collections in France, or so it seems with the rifles other forums sometimes show. MauserBill, I believe, pointed me to such a French forum and they had quite a few excellent rifles...

1913 is a tough year to find too, only Spandau, Mauser and Amberg are known to have made G98's that year, Spandau easiest to find, with Mauser and Amberg about equal. The numbers known and by serial extension suggest they made about the same number of rifles in 1913.

Yours is a very nice rifle.
 
toulon44 said:
thanks for your input , about the caliber no! it is in original configuration 8x57 IS now in France we can get rifles without limit if we are sporting shooter or hunter with licence and this since 2 years.a good thing for us isn't it ?
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Yes it is a great thing that they no longer have to be damaged to satisfy the whims of political wankers.
Have you researched the lineage of the pioneer marking ?.
 
gew98 said:
Yes it is a great thing that they no longer have to be damaged to satisfy the whims of political wankers.
Have you researched the lineage of the pioneer marking ?.
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i 'm totally with you on your point of view , politics are zero++ , no i haven't made a research on the pioneer lineage
 
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