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G98 Amberg 1914

balkslak

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Just wanted to show a couple of pictures of my first Gewehr 98. Mostly matching apart from bolt and some small parts. I'm not sure if the suffix is a b or a s. The buttplate has some additional markings which I don't know the meaning of. The muzzle protector is WW2 as it's marked WaA63.
 

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That is a b letter block and this is not a common Gew98 to find they're actually kind of scarce. Finding any rifle from 1914 is pretty tough. Finding one matching is even harder Amberg was one of the lowest producers of that year, Danzig is equally as tough and dwm is the scarcest and hardest to locate. The Spandau State Arsenal and Mauser oberndorf are the most produced and likely the most common 1914 rifle you will find.

Looks like your rifle was quite the war horse has passed through two Depots during it's career Rastatt #7 and Koblenz #5.

When you get time would love to see a picture of the barrel code underneath the stock and the bolt group.
 
Agreed, very nice!

As said it's a b-block, Amberg didn't make the s-block until 1916, and while the two characters are similar (incursive), the s is quite distinctive and when you see it you will know it is an "s".

Try and do the right receiver acceptance and stock acceptance if you can. Amberg is pretty consistent, but I would like to confirm the pattern.
 
Thank you all for your kind words. I haven't gotten the action out of the stock as it's a bit stuck but as soon as I do, I'll post pictures of the markings.

Here is some more pictures.
 

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Quite hard to see but in the last picture there is a tiny piece of shrapnel embedded in the stock.
 

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Thanks for the RR and stock views, fits Amberg in this range (though stock acceptance would be the same through i-block of 1915, Amberg was very consistent in acceptance throughout the war).

Does the bolt handle ball have a serial on it? It is common to see renumbers to match on the flat, ball and sometimes oddly placed. Probably not or you would have seen it.
 

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