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My Chinese contract K98k never saw China, and in fact came from the Middletown CT area many, many years ago. The collector I bought it acquired it from was Winchester executive during WW II when it was given to Winchester-Western for cartridge testing. See pages 98-99 of the 5th edition of...

You beat me by a few seconds, WaPruf2! Paul, my question is how did the Mauser Co's design for this 1932 Mosin conversion differ from the Oskar Will design produced during WW I? Or did it? The Oskar Will Mosin is described on pages 158-159 in Dr. Storz's second volume in his section on the M1888...

Hi Mike, There is no date stamped on Kar98k's sold and exported to China. However, a total of 100,120 Kar98k's were shipped in large and small lots between March of 1938 and April of 1939. 50,000 were shipped in 1938, the rest in '39, Judging by the serial number on your rifle, it would appear...

Hi Bruce, I believe that this work was done in Belgium. All MAE rifles that I have seen have been artfully-rebuilt Gew 98's. I have one which still has its original unit marking disc. MAE Mle 1935's are almost all Gew 98 components, including the wood, so the fraktur inspection letters we see on...

Hi Dave, Here is the Belgian Mle 1935 sniper rifle page posted to the Kennblatter in 1943. Regards, John

Hi Stan, Judging by the barrel jacket and protruding box magazine, it appears to be a captured Belgian Mle 1889 carbine. Since it doesn't have the 1916 stacking awivel, which usually was mounted high on the stock, the carbine is likley not the Mle 1889/16. I wonder how that thick-skinned white...

http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?256618-Wz98a-Comparison-of-two-Rifles-an-original-Polish-and-a-German-Re-issue&highlight=john+wall+Polish On the Mauser Forum, search using the terms "Polish 98a" for many more threads Regards, John

Yes, it could have been brought in by any arms importer in business after 1950. Regards, John

Hi Wolf, If I'm not mistaken this manual was reprinted in Germany 11 years ago, with modern commentary. It can be found in this book: "Fremde Gewehre in deutschen Diesten, 1914-1918" by (the late) Joachim Gortz and Wolfgang Finze, self-published in Germany in 2002, hardbound. ISBN #...

ex-German and ex-Japanese M95 long rifles I also have a German-altered Dutch Model 1895 long rifle, very similar to the rifles posted above. The full length picture below shows it alongside another altered M95, an ex-KNIL rifle with a bayonet bar for a Japanese Arisaka bayonet, also shown...

I have a Italian Carcano carbine marked "Bavarian Provincial Police" on its magazine, just like they marked their M1 carbines. Regards, John

Hand-me-down Beutewaffen Here are a few pictures I just took of two rare examples of hand-me-down beautewaffen. Each of these rifles is an Oberndorf-made Mauser contract rifle produced for Ottoman Turkey. Like the M.1887 cavalry carbine, they were captured by British (and/or French) in the...

More WW I Beutewaffen Here are a few more beutewaffen from WW I, including a Turkish M1887 cav carbine (5th thru 7th and last two photos) signed by a British soldier by the name of S. T. Carter and donated to the Royal Artilley Museum at Woolich, (which recently sold it off thru Christies as...

Mike, You're welcome to any rifle I have for the book. You'll have quite a challenge limiting "beautewaffen"! :-) The definition can almost be boundless if you include rifles captured by US forces and allied forces. Statistically speaking, the Mexican M.14 I just posted was most likely...

7 m/m M.14 Repetiergewehre (mexicanische Repetiergewehr) Here is a series of photos I took a few years ago right after I acquired this rifle. It is one of the rarest of WW I rifles, a unit marked M.14, the Austro-Hungarian designation for South American M1912 Mauser contract rifles taken into...

Mr. Farb, Here are some commonly available books in German on WW I era trophy rifles. Note that the titles of these publications is "fremlandische" or foreign rifles, not just captured or trophy rifles.... For WW I Austro-Hungarian trophy rifles: 1. "In der Stunde der Not, Fremlandische...

Still trying to get together with the sight hood manufacturer. Unfortunately, our schedules don't match well now. I will have to take a half day off to get to his shop since he moved a few months ago. However, tomorrow or Wednesday look like good possibilities. Regards, John

Hi Bruce, Although's Jon documents are totally new, the entire story in some detail has been public for decades, having published in Czechoslovakia in 1969. The information appears in volume one of Otakar Franek's three volume economic history of Ceskoslovenska Zbrojovka Brno entitled "Dejiny...