What on earth is this?! A Swerkish Mauser?

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Carl Gustav	Is it still C & R eligible?	#21	[-]
Posts: 3391 (05/11/09 04:43 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I logged it into my C & R bound book but now I'm wondering if it would still be C & R eligible. Better safe than sorry I guess. Carl
Carl Gustav	Found something interesting on Gunbroker	#22	[-]
Posts: 3392 (05/11/09 05:05 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I was viewing the Turkish Mausers on Gunbroker and found an '03/38 with a serial number stamped on the receiver ring in the same location as my Turdish Mauser. The font is different though and the numbers look smaller. The seller claims only the receiver, barrel, and sight are matching so there were no games played with it. Carl
m1 talker		#23	[-]
Posts: 6720 (05/11/09 05:05 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Well, I don't know about the relic part of it, but it sure does qualify for the curio part! Curt
Carl Gustav		#24	[-]
Posts: 3393 (05/11/09 06:47 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Curt, exactly what I was thinking and almost wrote. Carl
Ed Novak		#25	[-]
Posts: 1923 (05/11/09 09:27 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I've looked several times at the photo gallery and short the rifle apparently "legitimate" for any specific model, it is a nice looking rifle with the work pretty well done. I am partial to the M96 so that may flavor my opinion. If I had bought that rifle with the understanding that it was an arsenal produced military model, I'd be unhappy with being duped. If I bought that rifle because I simply liked the appearance and the sum of the parts, I'd be happy with it. Understand the C&R issue but the "rifle" is the "action" per BATFE, I think. Altering the receiver's number - I dunno - who is allowed to do that per BATFE rules? One thing which would disappoint me a lot about the builder's ethics, beyond the numbering would be the butt disc - if the rifle is a put-together - just a reach too far. NRA Endowment member LECS #2
Carl Gustav		#26	[-]
Posts: 3394 (05/11/09 10:37 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I've logged it into my bound book with both serial numbers. That's how I received it. I must confess I do like it's appearance and was pretty sure it was a put together when I bought it though not a hundred percent. After I'd photographed it, and noticed details such as the six pointed star I was fairly sure it wasn't authentic. I also wondered how on earth the Turks would have come upon a Swedish stock although in this world anything is possible. Just look at the variety of firearms that have turned up in Iraq. I do have several spare Swedish Mauser slings and am wondering if I should replace the the Turkish sling. Maybe I should put a Garand sling on it. Carl
Ed Novak		#27	[-]
Posts: 1925 (05/12/09 12:16 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Naw! That would really be a "reach too far" for this rifle; its all-Mauser from what I see. The rifle "spoke" to you or you would not have purchased it. Nice looking rifle; all Mauser. Put-together? Hells-bells, a Gamo air rifle costs $100 more than what you paid for it. Have you fired it? How does it group? I'd keep the rifle all-together, use it and keep searching for its history. May be a sleeper at the range; certainly an interesting rifle or you'd not have the number of pages of postings following it. Keep us posted about it please. NRA Endowment member LECS #2
dangson		#28	[-]
Posts: 366 (05/12/09 09:04 AM) active member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Carl, I was at the show late Friday afternoon. I was going to call you but I wasn't sure if I could make it. I wasn't able to stay long. I saw the $400 Swede but didn't see this one. The only Turk I saw was about $180. I think it looks good the way it is and I vote to leave it alone unless it doen't shoot well.
Carl Gustav		#29	[-]
Posts: 3395 (05/12/09 02:21 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Dan, I was there Saturday morning. The guy with my Turdish Mauser had modern stuff mostly and it would have been easy to miss. I may try to shoot it this Thursday AM but I don't want to use any Military surplus ammo at this point. I do have an old box of Norma 8 x 57 JS with 157 grain bullets that I may try. My mine fear is cracking the stock at the tang. Carl
eb in oregon		#30	[-]
Posts: 910 (06/02/09 06:42 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	It's not a matter of what you say, the truth is always the best. It does matter how you say it as, though the truth is best made blunt, none of us knows everything about anything. I don't care how long a person has been collecting, or how many books anyone has written, for them to say or act as though they are the absolute last word on a subject is absolute garbage. And for anyone to declare that the piece in question is shoddy work is arrogant to the extreme. The work on that piece, fake or real, is as good as most of the rifles that ever came out of almost any arsenal. My opinion, unpopular as it is. Eric "We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin, July 4 1776
Jackbull49.britishmilitari...		#31	[-]
Posts: 26 (06/02/09 08:46 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Picture these two scenarios. # 1 You are a member of some 3rd world "revolutionary" movementin the late 1950s. At a clandestine location you are placed in charge of a large cache of weapons of many types and nationalities, your task: to make as many functioning weapons as you can out of what you have. #2 You work for an importer of foreign military firearms as as quasi gunsmith, helping grade, clean and do light repairs on rifles destined for the civilian market. As you cull various "no go " rifles you buld a huge stash of actions, barrels and accessories in the shop. You get permission from the owners to "create" rifles from the cache for your personal use as a bonus. Two of many scenarios that could have produced this rifle. In a funny sort of way I like the looks of this orphan.
Carl Gustav	Hand guard fixed	#32	[-]
Posts: 3410 (06/04/09 03:30 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Who knows under what sinister conditions it was created but for a mutant it's fairly attractive. I still have work on securing the hand guard so it doesn't move with the recoil. I know what to do; I just have to do it. Carl It took me about fifteen minutes. I cut off a short piece of a 6d nail, drilled aligning holes in the stock and hand guard, and put it back together with the 6d .100" dia. pin in place. It will no longer slide from the recoil. Last Edited By: Carl Gustav 06/04/09 09:01 PM. Edited 1 times.
vamelungeon		#33	[-]
Posts: 812 (06/04/09 10:29 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	If it is safe to shoot and is acceptably accurate it's a good rifle. It may not have collector value but if it's a Bubba it's a good Bubba, above average I'd say. Enjoy it and have fun trying to come up with how it might have been created. NRA Life Member Audie N4AUD Wise, VA
Carl Gustav		#34	[-]
Posts: 3417 (06/05/09 08:39 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	It worked fine the first time at the range and it's accurate, too. A rifle like the Swerkish Mauser is a reminder to not take life too seriously. Carl