1916 Amberg Gew98 Military Rifle

[Calif-Steve]

Arsenal re-built in Mauser plant 1935/36. I would guess the barrels were OK then, but these went off to Spain. The barrels and receivers sometimes match, sometimes do not match. After the Civil War they were rebuilt in Spain and put away. Sold off in 1961-63. Nice keepers, but total mix-masters.

[john_anch_ak]

Howdy again everyone! Well, the rifle finally arrived late last week. I think they must have just put it on a very slow barge to Anchorage!

You are certainly correct about the "all matching s/n's" Nope, not even close once I took it apart to clean it up, and the metal parts certainly needed to soak in hot water with TSP to get that crud off. But now everything is clean and right now has a light coating of oil on all metal parts. Two springs were broken so I have them on order from Numrich Arms, other than that everything looks great.
I scrubbed the heck out of the bore and chamber. When I first looked at the bore/chamber I thought it was rusted and no good. After cleaning I have to say both the bore and chamber look to be in fine shape. Rifling and grooves still look pretty sharp in the barrel and the chamber looks good too. So maybe I lucked out there! I don't have a borescope so have no way to take any pictures of the bore and chamber.
The wood is in pretty good shape so I don't intend on doing anything with it, (and other than cleaning and oiling the metal parts of course).
I am going to upload some pictures I took of the stock that are not in the original pictures that I got from the auction website. The stock does have someone's name in pencil and you can also see that the buttstock was repaired at sometime. There is also a flaming bomb that says "MP 8" on the buttstock. Not at all sure what that means.
At any rate, I am happy with my newest addition and it was made the same year my Mother was born.

[Calif-Steve]

Nice and neat buttstock repair. Need more photos to add to this one.

[john_anch_ak]

Hi again, well I got it pretty well cleaned up, big pain in the butt for sure! I can happily report that the rifling and the chamber look to be in pretty darn good shape. I've tried taking a couple pictures but all I have is a pocket sized digital camera so I can't go much with it.
I'm uploading some more pictures of the metal parts after they have been cleaned. I sprayed all metal parts with Remington "Dry Lube", I guess it works ok but it leaves the metal parts looking crummy. I'll be heading to Cabelas tomorrow to get some decent spray lube that will make it look a whole lot better.
I welcome all comments regarding this rifle so please feel free to send a note if you like.