Sorry for the long wait, but here are the "after" pics for you all. She cleaned up really nicely and the bore turned out to be pretty darned good. Below the stock, the metal still retained a lot of the blue and after a Vaseline rub on the stock, it wound up looking very nice. The firing pi...

Hey Everyone. We’re having a benefit raffle with 3 beautiful fire arms as prizes.... This is for Tim LaMar, a member of Scarborough Fish and Game (http://www.scarfg.org/), in southern Maine, who has been diagnosed with cancer. He's a great guy and given a lot to both his Country (Airborne, wounded b...

Hey everybody, I just started posting here after someone at Gunboards pointed me this way. I asked a question on joseyclosey's post about his 1917 Spandau and he asked if I would post some pics of my newest joy, so here she is... 1915 Danzig Gew98. Has a mismatched follower and missing rod but other...

Thanks for the welcome Niner! I just got an email from a very helpful friend in CT with what might be a clue about the cloth. I'm assuming that these are notes taken about one of his rifles... "Description of a 1915 Imperial Kar98a unit marked Fl.E.6.562. This is a Kar98a, Erfurt 1915, SN 6256d...

Is the stock matching as well? When did they stop using the ID disk and switch to the take down disk? I'm new to Gew98's but I though that they were all building them with takedown disks by 1917. That's an absolutely BEAUTIFUL Gew98 BTW! I just picked up my first and it's no where near as clean or u...

Hi Folks, I'm usually over at Gunboards but haven't gotten a lot of luck getting many answers about this particular question and someboady pointed me this way. Though I might try my luck at MilsurpAA! I have a new-to-me 1915 Gew98, nearly all-matching (just the follower) rifle. It's getting a badly ...