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The word "extraordinary" is getting so cliché when you display another example from your collection Scott!
One truly can base a book around your Imperial & Weimar era collection.. this rifle does seem to be a first for this barrel acceptance on an unquestionably authentic rifle and directly supports that sportered 98a barrel as authentic as well?
I spent considerable time going through my library and paper files hunting for something relevant, but this is the first time I have seen this mark on the barrel on an "original" rifle.
Of course the rifle itself is something special and very elusive in this condition (to say the least), but most important is the display you have done! More examples need to be examined in such detail!
So very little is written on Imperial KM rifles, even less on Reichswehr era RM rifles- hell whether Reichsheer or RM rifles there is a void 10x as wide as Imperial era research!
So is your take on this M anchor as an f/p? I assume so unless there is a f/p elsewhere? (as Imperial arms with it below the wood?), can you do one of the rearsight or say whether its sS marked or is it earlier? Clearly the RM would have a decent chance to have a really early r/s still?
Since Joe Steen gave me a history lesson on the sS upgrades I have been seeking out the pre-sS marked tangent sights..
One truly can base a book around your Imperial & Weimar era collection.. this rifle does seem to be a first for this barrel acceptance on an unquestionably authentic rifle and directly supports that sportered 98a barrel as authentic as well?
I spent considerable time going through my library and paper files hunting for something relevant, but this is the first time I have seen this mark on the barrel on an "original" rifle.
Of course the rifle itself is something special and very elusive in this condition (to say the least), but most important is the display you have done! More examples need to be examined in such detail!
So very little is written on Imperial KM rifles, even less on Reichswehr era RM rifles- hell whether Reichsheer or RM rifles there is a void 10x as wide as Imperial era research!
So is your take on this M anchor as an f/p? I assume so unless there is a f/p elsewhere? (as Imperial arms with it below the wood?), can you do one of the rearsight or say whether its sS marked or is it earlier? Clearly the RM would have a decent chance to have a really early r/s still?
Since Joe Steen gave me a history lesson on the sS upgrades I have been seeking out the pre-sS marked tangent sights..
