Sporting Mauser info?

[Luger]

The scope maker is marked C. Reichert Vienna (Wien)

The metal work is beatiful, but you can see in the photo's where the scope mount has been installed the timber looks to have been cut down hurridly? any thoughts into why that would not have received the same "love" as the rest of the rifle?

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[Patrick Chadwick]

The metal work is beatiful, but you can see in the photo's where the scope mount has been installed the timber looks to have been cut down hurridly? any thoughts into why that would not have received the same "love" as the rest of the rifle?

My guess: the scope is a later addition by someone who was a bit sloppy. You can see a thumb cut-out in the wood for clip loading. This is now superfluous, but shows that the rifle was originally made without a scope. So athough the rifle and scope+mounting are all prewar items, it is quite possible that, as m4a3sherman suggested, that they were put together postwar. Boehler was, I believe, a barrel maker and supplier of barrel steel. Somewhere on this forum I once saw a reference to marks on the bottom of some K98k barrels indicating that they (or the semi-finished blanks) were supplied by Boehler.

As for Speed - there is no substitute, you will have to search for it. Same publisher as the "Mauser Archives".

Patrick

[Luger]

Hi Patrick, thanks again. Managed to find a copy of the book on German Gun Collectors Association !

Where in Germany are you?