Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact
NitroExpress.com: Guild rifle

View recent messages : 24 hours | 48 hours | 7 days | 14 days | 30 days | 60 days | More Smilies


*** Enjoy NitroExpress.com? Participate and join in. ***

Shooting & Reloading - Mausers, Big Bores and others >> Mauser Discussion Forum

kuduae
.400 member


Reged: 13/01/10
Posts: 1792
Loc: middle of Germany
Re: Guild rifle
      25/03/19 03:28 AM

Here in the western part of Germany 8x57IS Mausers without proofmarks are quite often seen. They are of two different periods, both post-war. After WW1 many military rifles ended up in now civilian hands. The conditions of the Versailles treaty demanded these guns to be surrendered to the government and destroyed, but sporting guns were not affected. So many of those M98 rifles and carbines were sporterised instead of surrendered. Usually all military markings were scrubbed off, sights were changed and either new stocks fitted or the original stocks altered. Nobody cared then to have these used military rifles civilian reproofed. Alas, Germany was in revolutionary turmoil and some proofhouses closed. A similar situation existed post-WW2. The landscape was littered with thrown away K98ks. Many of these were retrieved from the bushes, sporterised and restocked by unemployed gunsmithes and peddled for food or other conveniences to mostly GIs. Such rifles are known as "Cigarette Mausers" after the favorite barter in America. About 1950, when gun control relaxed and West Germans were allowed again to own and use hunting rifles, such cigarette Mausers were often the first hunting equipment. Older guns resurrected from the most unlikely hidings. Some of the old guns had to be restocked because rot. But proof laws and proofhouses were not yet firmly established. So noone cared about proof.
From the description as a scrubbed small ring Mauser action I suspect this rifle to be a sporterised WW1 98AZ carbine, maybe restocked again after WW2.

Post Extras Print Post   Remind Me!     Notify Moderator


Entire topic
Subject Posted by Posted on
* Guild rifle Rohermoker 24/03/19 01:08 AM
. * * Re: Guild rifle lancaster   24/03/19 06:46 AM
. * * Re: Guild rifle Vladymere   24/03/19 09:24 AM
. * * Re: Guild rifle kuduae   25/03/19 03:28 AM
. * * Re: Guild rifle Rohermoker   11/04/19 11:14 PM

Extra information
0 registered and 26 anonymous users are browsing this forum.

Moderator:  NitroX 



Forum Permissions
      You cannot start new topics
      You cannot reply to topics
      HTML is disabled
      UBBCode is enabled

Rating:
Thread views: 2916

Rate this thread

Jump to

Contact Us NitroExpress.com

Powered by UBB.threads™ 6.5.5


Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact


Copyright 2003 to 2011 - all rights reserved