MCHammah96
Junior Member
Hello all,
I am relatively new to this forum, so please excuse any poor pictures/ general errors. I would like help in Identifying where my Gew98 was made, as the mounta cover the receiver. My piece has heavy patina, and is all matching less the scope and mounts(although they match themselves) and the bolt, which also has an unusual cut out to most G98 snipers I have seen, in that it is scalloped out on a bit of a bias in addition to the standard scallop cut. I have a letter of provenance from the Royal Canadian legion where it remained after it was ostensibly donated by a vet in the 1920s. In my discussion with them the capture date is August of 1917, but take that with a grain of salt( I am very critical of information like this, very hard to prove) however it is nice knowing at least somewhat of a paper trail and the fact that it was in a museum for decades, looking rugged the way it does, it is a piece I appreciate. Please see the attached link, for whatever reason, to see all the photos you must do it in sections, either oldest or newest first then once you've viewed those, click the opposite to see the remaining pictures:
I am relatively new to this forum, so please excuse any poor pictures/ general errors. I would like help in Identifying where my Gew98 was made, as the mounta cover the receiver. My piece has heavy patina, and is all matching less the scope and mounts(although they match themselves) and the bolt, which also has an unusual cut out to most G98 snipers I have seen, in that it is scalloped out on a bit of a bias in addition to the standard scallop cut. I have a letter of provenance from the Royal Canadian legion where it remained after it was ostensibly donated by a vet in the 1920s. In my discussion with them the capture date is August of 1917, but take that with a grain of salt( I am very critical of information like this, very hard to prove) however it is nice knowing at least somewhat of a paper trail and the fact that it was in a museum for decades, looking rugged the way it does, it is a piece I appreciate. Please see the attached link, for whatever reason, to see all the photos you must do it in sections, either oldest or newest first then once you've viewed those, click the opposite to see the remaining pictures:
