Recent content by yeeyee123

Well, a peer to my rifle was recently auctioned off and it has the same oddities, perhaps this was just how early Danzig rifles were serialized. It's the same year, with the same weird serial location on the bands with the same dot suffix. Waited for the auction to end and these are ofc not my...

I’d default to Chris’s judgement on this particular carbine but yes, some Kar 88’s had their ears ground for police use within Germany to my knowledge. As an aside you’ll see matched unmolested guns sell for around 1K at auction often, don’t bother with that one at that price. Maybe if it was...

Something is off about that nose cap and the barrel's fitment to it. The muzzle crown isn't right either, something has been done on that front end besides the "police" modification on the ears. My kar 88 is probably my favorite 8mm mauser gun to shoot though so if the price is right and the...

Sure I’d love a copy, German isn’t my main area of collecting so more reading can’t hurt. By the way what’s the acceptance cypher on this rifle if not Wurttemburg? I thought the crown over W signified wurt use. Thanks!

I’ve got 0 insight on the topic of who were the biggest baddest manufacturers at the time but I found a couple of those rifles i remembered seeing, they were hiding in plain sight in the reference thread. Two 1878 Ambergs with suhl made barrels. If amberg still needed supplemental barrels from...

I had Initially figured that Danzig might have sub-contracted barrel manufacture out in early production as the œwg stamp is present on this danzig made gun yet absent on all the inhouse steyr made 1871's in PrayingMantis's picture reference index. I've seen a couple suhl maker marks stamped on...

Copy that on the sight, just wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing something obvious. I gave it a more detailed scrub and no depot numbers on the buttplate but the unit marks and serial show better now. I also thought it was württemberg because of the crown over W acceptance on the barrel, but...

Photos part 3 (plus my VCS Kar 71)

Photos part 2

Got a pretty beat Danzig Gew 71 in and had some questions about it and also just wanted to share it as I didn’t see a reference for an 1874 dated danzig on the forum yet. Wurttemburg (nope just early style of prussian) acceptance on the barrel. All matching minus the missing cleaning rod with 2...

One last update for this thread. After I had my metallurgist friend verify what I figured regarding the heat treat on all the steel parts I ended up shoring up the compromised side of the stock so it would hold recoil and I took the carbine to the range. As the stock was incredibly thin (I...

I don't think I got every acceptance mark so if there's more you'd want to see lmk and thanks!

I was watching that lot too, If that stock wasnt covered in lacquer I'd have jumped in on it too. Good deal on the lot IMO and two good restoration projects

last set

yet more photos