MilsurpDan
Junior Member
I met with an older collector friend of mine yesterday and he was kind enough to pass off to me three of his most cherished possessions.
I’ll make separate threads for the other two, but this particular rifle is one of the DAK British captured K98k’s. My friend said he picked it out directly from Hunter’s Lodge (Interarms) when it was in Alexandria, Virginia in 1967.
He was told at the time that these British captured rifles were in a shipment of approximately 200 rifles that came out of Portuguese Goa (Portugal’s former Indian colony).
He looked through them all and picked out what he could afford. They were sold for $45.
All matching down to the screws and in beautiful condition. The British applied some kind of varnish to the stock like I’ve seen with some other British captured equipment.
It’s got the “AA” marking for Alexandria (or Allahabad) Arsenal as well as the MP stock disk and “R.P. SRI.” Painted on the stock.
Pictures in the imgur link below. If they don’t work, let me know.
I’ll make separate threads for the other two, but this particular rifle is one of the DAK British captured K98k’s. My friend said he picked it out directly from Hunter’s Lodge (Interarms) when it was in Alexandria, Virginia in 1967.
He was told at the time that these British captured rifles were in a shipment of approximately 200 rifles that came out of Portuguese Goa (Portugal’s former Indian colony).
He looked through them all and picked out what he could afford. They were sold for $45.
All matching down to the screws and in beautiful condition. The British applied some kind of varnish to the stock like I’ve seen with some other British captured equipment.
It’s got the “AA” marking for Alexandria (or Allahabad) Arsenal as well as the MP stock disk and “R.P. SRI.” Painted on the stock.
Pictures in the imgur link below. If they don’t work, let me know.