Milsurp After Hours

I posted this on the old Milsurp site just before it went "tits up" so here it is again.

Mauser 71/84 in 11mm, manufactured in Danzig 1887, sn 7437.

Nice looking rifle, Joe.

What is the ammo situation with it?

Its considered an obsolete calibre over here Curtis and does`nt require a firearms certificate, if i wanted to shoot it i would have to put it on fac, and acquire the neccesary reloading equipment.

Joe

i remember it from the old site and it still is a beauty of a rifle.

Gott und Himmel! She's gorgeous!

Much, much, much, better than the example I bought.

This one's seen a little harder life than your rifle, I reckon



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I got her cheap though

Came from an estate auction where the previous owner had this rifle (and a few others) in a closet for 40+ years. (Should have seen the dead spiders coming out of the bore ).

Picked it up for $80, as the other guys at the auction only cared about the hunting rifles.

Oddly, I was bidding on a Swiss Vetterli too and two guys bit it up over $400! It wasn't that nice either. I think they thought it was an "old" rifle because of it's odd looks. The winner said he was going to hang it over his fireplace

She now resides with a friend who appreciates cleaning Black Powder more than I do and spending obscene amounts of $ on obsolete brass!

80 bucks thats a steal,

Joe