1914 Mauser

[ShaveTail]

The other day I was browsing the rifles at a local pawn shop and came across a sporterized Mauser...but now I can't remember the damned name on the receiver to look it up. It was stamped Gwer98 on the side of the receiver and 1914 on the top with a name reading Abhor or Amhor or something very close.

The finish was very odd and I think the barrel had been cut down, so I'd never be able to restore it, but it's like getting the name of a song stuck in your head: what was it called?? They were asking $200, by the way.

Help!

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[gunner]

ShaveTail,

the name is Amberg. This was a bavarian rifle company foundet in 1801 and closed in 1919. It was the gun maker for the Royal Bavarian Army and a made also Mauser Rifles like the 1871/84 and the Gewehr 98. For $200 it is to expensive.

Regards

Gunner

[ShaveTail]

Ahh, thanks, that's it! Yeah, I figured the same, but it just kept nagging. They actually had several travesties to sporterizing there:

Winchester made 1917 Enfield

Japanese Arisaka from the 1930s

Chinese bolt sporterized to the point of being undefinable

[gunner]

Mad to sporterize such fine rifles !

Gunner

[Calif-Steve]

I remember seeing piles of Gew98's at a hardware years ago. They came out of Spain. All had the stocks cut down and the handguard ring milled off. They were cheap hunting rifles and I think they sold for $34.95, or something like that.