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Amberg 1917 with Polish Stock?

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Arisaka603

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Hey all, 1st post here. Just bought this Amberg 1917 last night on Gunbroker and could not figure out what’s going on with the stock.


It appears to be some kind of a polish stock of the kar98az or KBK WZ. 29 variety but it does not have the slot for the turned down bolt handle in it. The stock is also numbers matching to the receiver to throw a further curveball in. It appears to be beechwood and have the proper imperial markings.

There are no Polish Markings from what I can see anywhere on the rifle just normal imperial markings. The stock also appears to be longer than the polish variants I’ve seen. Any help is appreciated!
 

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Stock does not show Polish features. The sling bar addition looks French (due to the rounded design of the attachment tabs of the sling bar).

Here is a French sling bar on a K98k:
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Thanks for the reply! I referenced a good number of your YouTube videos on this one and it just didn’t look exactly like anything you had. I’ll start looking into French stocks.
 
I don't think it's a French stock as in a stock made by the French, I'm pretty sure what krukster is saying is that it's a stock modified by the French for their sling arrangement. The stock looks like fairly normal German stock to me, minus the later alteration with the cut out.
 
That’s matching up with what I’ve found, the French must have had this rifle at some point and added the sling bar. It doesn’t seem like anything else has been altered on the rifle. Thanks for the reply!
 
I could be in error here, but I thought the Spanish had some similar arrangement as well. Would be reasonable to assume that course?
 
The Spanish rear sling bar seems to be of a different style, I haven’t seen a Spanish rifle with the same bar style. To me it really does look French. Not much history I can find on the French doing this but I assume it was after capturing the rifle and pressing into their own service.
 
Arisaka603 said:
The Spanish rear sling bar seems to be of a different style, I haven’t seen a Spanish rifle with the same bar style. To me it really does look French. Not much history I can find on the French doing this but I assume it was after capturing the rifle and pressing into their own service.
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Yeah, the shape of the inlet bar is really distinctive, especially the way the "knobs" for lack of a better term on the ends are rounded. I may be incorrect on this, but I also believe the Spanish ones were all a loop of metal projecting out from the stock, rather than a bar of metal put over a hole inlet into the stock.

That said, it looks basically identical to what you see on post-war French K98ks in a way that makes me strongly suspect that it would have been done contemporaneously to those guns. I've never seen a Gew98 with a french sling inlet, though, so I'm just guessing here. Do we have any evidence of what they did with Gew98s that they used during WW1 or in the interwar years? It must have happened, I've just never seen one.
 
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