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Re: Original WW1 service rifles....show and tell
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 5:17 pm
by GeeRam
bnz41 wrote:Sold 2 days ago not to me.... did not see asking price.
£1695 is what it is still listed at on their website.
http://www.deactivated-guns.co.uk/live- ... _4473.html
Re: Original WW1 service rifles....show and tell
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 5:41 pm
by bnz41
Ah thanks for the link, it was the G33/40 sharpshooter fitted with a ZF41 scope that was sold.
Re: Original WW1 service rifles....show and tell
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 10:23 am
by dave_303
I thought the G33/40s with ZF41s were fantasy guns?
Re: Original WW1 service rifles....show and tell
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 10:39 am
by huntervixen
I think the originally of any WW2 Mauser/scope combos need to be taken with a very large pinch of salt, unless provenance can be proved, virtually never in a WW2 Mauser's case!
Re: Original WW1 service rifles....show and tell
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 10:43 am
by snayperskaya
huntervixen wrote:I think the originally of any WW2 Mauser/scope combos need to be taken with a very large pinch of salt, unless provenance can be proved, virtually never in a WW2 Mauser's case!
Much like "original" Russian M44 Mosin "tower sniper rifles" that have had a PU slapped on them.
Re: Original WW1 service rifles....show and tell
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 11:44 am
by bnz41
dave_303 wrote:I thought the G33/40s with ZF41s were fantasy guns?
Well you live and learn,
but the dealer seemed to think it was real and sold as such....
& one dealer thinks the M44 Mosin tower sniper rifles are real once he's built them.....
Re: Original WW1 service rifles....show and tell
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 12:48 pm
by snayperskaya
bnz41 wrote:dave_303 wrote:I thought the G33/40s with ZF41s were fantasy guns?
Well you live and learn,
but the dealer seemed to think it was real and sold as such....
& one dealer thinks the M44 Mosin tower sniper rifles are real once he's built them.....
And flogged them for 3x what an M44 usually sells for!
Re: Original WW1 service rifles....show and tell
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 3:08 pm
by GeeRam
dave_303 wrote:I thought the G33/40s with ZF41s were fantasy guns?
That was my understanding as well, no scoped example thus far has ever been authenticated as genuine as far as I'm aware......
Re: Original WW1 service rifles....show and tell
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2016 4:37 pm
by ukrifleman
I have just purchased a 1915 vintage Remington built Berthier 1907-15 rifle, that is in mint, all original, unfired condition.
It was part of the contract for 200,000 rifles that the French placed with Remington in 1915 but was never delivered.
I haven't had time to take photos but, you can view the rifle on
www.cgfirearms.co.uk.
I have been after one of these rifles for several years and it was certainly worth the wait.
ukrifleman.
Re: Original WW1 service rifles....show and tell
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 10:11 pm
by dirtbag
Quite recent,here is a truly battered Gew 88 commission rifle unconverted J bore (also en bloc mag) 1894 Steyr, all for £50.
It may be a one of classic cases of someone down the years who wanted to play cricket, forgot the mallet, and decided to use the gun stock to bang the stumps in ?