spencerhut
Member
Got home too late in the evening to shoot it. I'll make sure it shoots tomorrow. So happy it's repaired properly and looks so good. 122 years old. Wow. Can't thank Mark enough.
Mauser 1898 #68 Back from Mark Novak
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spencerhut
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Thanks. 7x57. Not a sporterized gun. It's an original gift/bribe/salesman sample/stalker . . . whatever you want to call it. But it's an all original ~120 year old gun and a beautiful sight to behold. Mark fixed a wicked difficult crack in the forend, checkered it and dressed the screw heads.
flynaked
Repo Field Gear Collector
Neat rifle, I like it. Any chance we could see more details of the receiver? Some of the rifles of this type can show up with some odd stuff, a friend of mine has one that must be gift for some SA contract roughly in the 1920’s serial number 1, with the full military tangent sight etc.
spencerhut
Member
There are older threads that show the receiver markings.
http://www.k98kforum.com/showthread...mmercial-)-Identification&p=155180#post155180
http://www.k98kforum.com/showthread...mmercial-)-Identification&p=155180#post155180
gew98
Well-known member
Neat piece and likely a great shooter. Value though...meh not so much as you might think. It's just one of that periods 98 action sporters made in gobs . Quite frankly not a fancy grade , just utilitarian. Missing it's original express sights and sporting US commercial sights..oh well a good shooter it is. Seen so many , so many variations.
Enjoy it for what it is and shoot it.
Enjoy it for what it is and shoot it.
Fal Grunt
Senior Member
I'm not familiar with Mark Novak, does he have a website? A google search pulls up a whole bunch of un related items?
The rifle, as discussed in the other thread, is likely a commercial rifle, retailed at some point prior to WWI. There are few cases that I think a "salesman" sample is plausible, but they are very few. Countries purchased their rifles whether they were samples, Trials rifles, or otherwise. Small purchases like these are nearly impossible to track due to the sales network, typically they were sold through a retailer as most firms did not deal with small orders.
My own rifle, of the same concept, also sold somewhere before WWI, with no markings other than "fraktur" inspection marks being used at the time on a few obscure contracts at the turn of the century and the company side rail marking. This one is serial number 8.
The rifle, as discussed in the other thread, is likely a commercial rifle, retailed at some point prior to WWI. There are few cases that I think a "salesman" sample is plausible, but they are very few. Countries purchased their rifles whether they were samples, Trials rifles, or otherwise. Small purchases like these are nearly impossible to track due to the sales network, typically they were sold through a retailer as most firms did not deal with small orders.
My own rifle, of the same concept, also sold somewhere before WWI, with no markings other than "fraktur" inspection marks being used at the time on a few obscure contracts at the turn of the century and the company side rail marking. This one is serial number 8.
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