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    I have two of which one is very nice (see the attached pics) I would be looking to sell, export to the UKicon is no trouble at all if you have a dealer I can ship it to.

    Edit: since you were asking, the removal of the bayonet was based on an old Germanicon gun law. Stupid, I know. They often also added a welding dot to the rear sight to block it for distances above 300 Meters.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mrclark303 View Post
    Quite a few of these seem to have the bayonet boss removed, suggesting possible Police use somewhere perhaps?
    Over here, hunting rifles don't require a bayonet...or sight ears or a flash cone... That's why guys cut them.
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    Geez BAR you had me imagining a hunter going at a Rusa or Sambar or even a Moose with a one on one with bayonet V's Antlers............

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    Quote Originally Posted by CINDERS View Post
    a one on one with bayonet
    There was an ad in an old Bannerman catalogue that suggested having a bayonet for your Kragicon rifle so as to save the second shot with a downed animal...an ad from 1927...
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    You can just imagine someone doing a bayonet charge with a Kragicon on a downed deer Jim!

    Dosen't seem terribly sporting!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mrclark303 View Post
    Most of the examples I have seen here over the last year have been freshly imported from Europe, with CIP proof marks.

    Quite a few of these seem to have the bayonet boss removed, suggesting possible Police use somewhere perhaps?
    Yes, a batch came into UKicon that supposedly had been used by the West Germanicon Border Guard units that had been supplied them by us in the early days of its setup in the early 1950's, and as mentioned, being a civilian, not mil unit, they all had the bayonet lug ground off.
    How true or not that is I don't but that's what I was told by a RFD that had a few of them for sale about 2 years ago.

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    The border police were known as the Bundesgrenzschultz, the link takes you to there history from March 1951. I cannot find a reference to the No.5 but they certainly had No.4's.
    If you were an ex Wehrmacht soldier and had the choice of a k98 or a No.4, you would take the Mauser every time!


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