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Re: Original WW1 service rifles....show and tell
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:35 pm
by jjvc
huntervixen wrote:jjvc wrote:G98, 1917 Spandau Sterngewehr.
That is a lovely looking rifle......I have designs on just such a beast to shoot, compare and contrast, alongside my 1917 SMLE, I feel another variation coming on!!
....what does she shoot like?
Shoots a dream even with old ex mil surplus. A while ago at Otterburn I got into a 600m impromptu comp with my pal and his sniper scoped M91 mosin nagant and the figure 11s just kept falling as we shot turn about. That was a day to remember.
Joe
Re: Original WW1 service rifles....show and tell
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 2:50 pm
by 450 Martini
Here is my G98, she was built in 1915 at the Amberg Arsenal in Bavaria.
She shoots a bit high with 198 grain ammo, but will easily hold a 4" group at 100 yards with gentle target loads.
I have noticed that there are wear marks on the stock just above the right hand side of the wrist, using my knowledge of imperial German drill these marks were almost certainly made by the left ammunition pouch of the man issued this rifle rubbing against the wood as he marched along.
Re: Original WW1 service rifles....show and tell
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 4:41 pm
by JS569
Here is my 1917 BSA No1 MkIII* all matching numbers. Really good condition and shoots well, loves knocking fig 11s down out too 600yds.
And for those eagle eyed ones-the none WW1 vintage rifles are, the No4 is 1944 Fazakerly and the Bren is 1943
Re: Original WW1 service rifles....show and tell
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 2:27 pm
by benp1992
Some goregus rifles here. Can't wait to get my FAC and find a nice .303
Re: Original WW1 service rifles....show and tell
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 5:15 pm
by meles meles
We have:
P14 (Winchester, 1917)
Karl Gustafs M96 (1905)
Lee Enfield MLE (1897?)
Lee Enfield SMLE (1916)
Mosin Nagant (1917)
Krag Jorgensen ( 1899?)
Re: Original WW1 service rifles....show and tell
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 6:42 pm
by snayperskaya
meles meles wrote:We have:
P14 (Winchester, 1917)
Karl Gustafs M96 (1905)
Lee Enfield MLE (1897?)
Lee Enfield SMLE (1916)
Mosin Nagant (1917)
Krag Jorgensen ( 1899?)
Pic of the Mosin?
Re: Original WW1 service rifles....show and tell
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:06 pm
by meles meles
Rembrandt is busy...
Re: Original WW1 service rifles....show and tell
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 3:07 pm
by Blighty
1896 Tula M91. Unlike post 1907 woodwork this one has no sling escutcheons or cross bolt in the finger groove. Metal work has AZF stamp (Artillerie Zeugs Fabrik. A depot near to Vienna) placed there by the Austro-Hungarians who captured it from the Russians during the Great War. For good measure they also added the wire swivels.
Post Great War it ended up with the Finns who added a tasteful SA stamp.
Wish this one could talk.
Re: Original WW1 service rifles....show and tell
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 3:24 pm
by snayperskaya
Blighty wrote:
1896 Tula M91. Unlike post 1907 woodwork this one has no sling escutcheons or cross bolt in the finger groove. Metal work has AZF stamp (Artillerie Zeugs Fabrik. A depot near to Vienna) placed there by the Austro-Hungarians who captured it from the Russians during the Great War. For good measure they also added the wire swivels.
Post Great War it ended up with the Finns who added a tasteful SA stamp.
Wish this one could talk.
Very nice, I like that a lot
. I would like an Imperial Mosin in the collection, I may sell the M44 and see whats about.
Re: Original WW1 service rifles....show and tell
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 3:48 pm
by Blighty
Pretty sure that this is appropriate to this thread. 1914 Izhevsk. Was a M91 but is now a 91/38. Converted post WW11 by the Czechs in an effort to rationalise the vast array of Mosin nagant models they had. Interestingly they were all converted to M44 spec however nearly all of them later had the bayonet mounts ground off. General consensus is that the 91/38 is the nicest carbine model available.
