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Starting in 1880 the prussian cuirassier regiments were already issued a number of carbines per squadron for drill and training purposes. As you already stated in 1888 the cuirasses were taken out of fieldservice and now all ranks swaped their revolvers with carbines. With kind regards Vincent

Thats one interesting rifle. A Jägerbüchse M/71 with three barrel bands? Any unit markings? With kind regards Vincent

Absolutly! Thank you very much for showing these sights to us. with kind regards Vincent

Bayonet S84/98 old pattern C.G. Haenel Suhl Preussen, W87 2. J. 6. 31. / 2. J. R. 31 2. Jaeger bataillon, 6. company, weapon no. 31. / 2. Jaeger bataillon, Radfahrer (bicycle) company, weapon no. 31. The flagship of my unit marking collection. Even if the letters are diffrent its...

Very nice rifle and with a rare guard unit marking. Thanks for showing!

Bayonet S98/05 old Pattern ERFURT, W11 W. K. 2498. Werft Kiel, Nr. 2498 - Navy Dockyard Kiel, no. 2498. Navy bayonets witch matching numbers are nearly impossible to find. I dont know why exactly but they must have been mixing bayonets and scabbards arround a lot during WW1.

More pictures PS: If anyone knows of a prussian marked Hirschfanger 1810/23 bayonet to fit this rifle... i am looking for one :-)

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Hello guys, here is the last of my dreyse Jager rifles, the "Defensions-Zündnadelbüchse U/M". This was the only dreyse rifle that was built by reworking an old prussian muzzleloading weapon, the Jägerbüchse 1835/47. Barrel length: 66 cm Overall length: 112 cm Produced by "Soemmerda F.v.D."...

Chris, thats a very neat and rare carbine. Great find! I love the fact that they included a percussion cap protector. Saxon weaponry is not my field of knowledge, do you know if these carbines were designed as a breechloader from the beginning or are they reworked muzzle loaders? Even though...

The only thing i can add here is that there are some kS98 bayonets known with O.M.D. markings. One of them even feature an additional M.G.A. (could be "Machine Gun Abteilung") marking as well. From 1908 onwards machine gun crews tend to have been equipped with the kS98 and the K98. So its very...

Very interesting topic! The only pre-war official use of K98 within the imperial navy i know of are the machinegun crews of the III. Seebataillon. They were also the only navy guys equipped with the short bayonet 98. The soldiers from the III. Seebataillon always seem to have done things a bit...

Bolt and the Hirschfänger M/65.

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Hello guys, here is the next of my dreyse Jager rifles, the Jägerbüchse M/65. Barrel length: 76 cm Overall length: 123 cm Produced by "Soemmerda F.D." in 1868. All matching serial number 9638 and updated to the beck conversion. 1868 issued to the 2nd Jäger-Bataillon. She is in OK condition...

Would you mind sharing the unit marking here? The individual weapon number of navy markings are often repeated on the top of the receiver. Thats why i would guess that your rifle is navy as well. Maybe the "1" is the rest of an "M" from the "K M" navy marking?

Thank you for your kind comment. Glad you enjoyed it. I remeber seeing one of those M/54 for auction in the US a few years ago. It was in bad shape and the ram rod was missing. Dont know for how much it was sold. Thanks, Chris! I was looking for over 6 years to find this rifle. They are...

Ram rod bayonet

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Hello everyone, since there are already some dreyse needle rifles here in the forum and at least some of you seem to enjoy them i will do my part and show a few of my rifles here. As i mostly collect cavalry and jaegers and the M/57 cavlary carbine has been posted by Chris, i will cover some...