| chapmen |
| (.300 member) |
| 04/06/17 05:52 AM |
Re: another M 88 sporter for the archive
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Haenel and Schilling were still making new actions and also complete carbines for export to china and south america up to 1914. the better quality hunting rifles I collect here in this thread were build on brand new carbine actions. the cheap quality hunting rifles are real sporter made from surplus military rifles. imho, there was no production of M 88 rifles in Suhl ever but only carbines.
Schilling never made actions. The military carbine actions where made by Haenel, also used by Schilling. (Storz, Deutsche Militärgewehre, Band 2 and other.)
I see no reason for two qualities of systems, but there where a lot of not accepted stuff
left from the german military carbine line.
The interesting point on this carbines from Schilling and Haenel is that they have not one military
acceptance stamp on any part. That doesnt fit with surplus military rifles.