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headoftheholler
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Any Help with ID on this Mauser?
#243713 - 13/03/14 07:13 AM

Working on purchasing this rifle, these are the only pictures I have at the moment, any
ideas or thoughts on origin or value?

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casper50
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Re: Any Help with ID on this Mauser? [Re: headoftheholler]
#243718 - 13/03/14 07:40 AM

what caliber?

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headoftheholler
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Re: Any Help with ID on this Mauser? [Re: casper50]
#243719 - 13/03/14 07:46 AM

8x57

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John303
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Re: Any Help with ID on this Mauser? [Re: headoftheholler]
#243727 - 13/03/14 12:35 PM

Well here goes, except for the scratching on the metal it's a nice, restocked military Mauser
I would say around $400.00 +/- $50 Cdn. in this neck of the woods. John

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Re: Any Help with ID on this Mauser? [Re: John303]
#243730 - 13/03/14 03:38 PM

again made in suhl/zella mehlis around 1930, the engraving is distintive

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headoftheholler
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Re: Any Help with ID on this Mauser? [Re: lancaster]
#244266 - 23/03/14 12:21 PM

Got the rifle home today, no stampings that I can discern origin, however in barrel channel written in pencil is Pal Kowetz 1945, and the number 5127 , the one and seven in distinct german script.
Begs the question, Jewish gunmaker in Germany making a sporting rifle in 1945?
Any help?

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paradox_
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Re: Any Help with ID on this Mauser? [Re: headoftheholler]
#244267 - 23/03/14 02:09 PM

one of zillions made by good makers in Suhl, and other places. Ex ordinance action, value around $400-500 i would say. They generally represent very good value these rifles, no one generally goes out of their for them, pity because there are worth more.

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Eric

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Re: Any Help with ID on this Mauser? [Re: headoftheholler]
#244271 - 23/03/14 03:59 PM

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Got the rifle home today, no stampings that I can discern origin, however in barrel channel written in pencil is Pal Kowetz 1945, and the number 5127 , the one and seven in distinct german script.
Begs the question, Jewish gunmaker in Germany making a sporting rifle in 1945?
Any help?

Pal Kowetz 1945 written in pencil sounds like the name of the american GI who send the rifle over the pond

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Norwegian hunter misses moose, shoots man on toilet
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