Warrior1354
ax - hole
Well me and Marc ran into some luck last month with a small auction house. He purchased that wonderful, and lovely 1918 Amberg Gewehr 98. And me this wonderful, and very interesting 1871 Erfurt Gewehr. For year's I kind of wanted one. Mainly to go with my Erfurt rifle collection. But most were in very poor condition, or complete mixmatchers. This one for once was a complete rifle, had decent stock proofs, looked matching from the auction photos, and had the cool steel replacement trigger guard. It was missing a few parts though. The front barrel band screw, extractor, and cleaning rod. But I had a spare 1871 cleaning rod in my parts bin. Thought it would come in handy when I bought it years ago. Now I'm glad I did!
So far the rifle only has a few mismatched parts: the bolt head, bolt head washer, and a few smaller components. But for the most part this 1871 rifle is completely original. Took the bolt apart as well, and found the firing pin clipped. So that tells me this rifle was brought into the country after the great war was over. I'm thinking one of those war bond rifles. Might explain the mismatched bolt head. Most likely that part was tossed when the firing pin was clipped. The steel trigger guard is a neat piece, but it's painted with some type of older black paint. I could remove it, but going to leave it as it is for now. Could have been done in the field, and don't want to altered something without more info. Only bad I would say is the crack in the stock on the left side. Looks like the rifle was hit by something or tossed in pile of weapons. Still I'm quite happy, and how picky can you be with 1871 Erfurt rifles!
So far the rifle only has a few mismatched parts: the bolt head, bolt head washer, and a few smaller components. But for the most part this 1871 rifle is completely original. Took the bolt apart as well, and found the firing pin clipped. So that tells me this rifle was brought into the country after the great war was over. I'm thinking one of those war bond rifles. Might explain the mismatched bolt head. Most likely that part was tossed when the firing pin was clipped. The steel trigger guard is a neat piece, but it's painted with some type of older black paint. I could remove it, but going to leave it as it is for now. Could have been done in the field, and don't want to altered something without more info. Only bad I would say is the crack in the stock on the left side. Looks like the rifle was hit by something or tossed in pile of weapons. Still I'm quite happy, and how picky can you be with 1871 Erfurt rifles!
