WOW thats a lot of Mausers!!

[usabaker]

Bunches and bunches....
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[fjruple]

You think I can find a nice one to take home?

[usabaker]

You think I can find a nice one to take home?

I don't know man... there might not be a big enough selection

[Atticus Thraxx]

Nice pull usabaker. Usually don't see that many abandoned rifles unless they're French.

[usabaker]

. Usually don't see that many abandoned rifles unless they're French.

That's the best thing about buy French surplus rifles, never used and only dropped once.

[GeeRam]

Now this is a lot of K98k's.......

Part of the 300,000 or so K98k's being sorted in Norway after the German surrender in 1945.



My Norwegian surrender K98k might in that pile somewhere

[usabaker]

My Norwegian surrender K98k might in that pile somewhere

WOWzers! even more....

[GeeRam]

WOWzers! even more....

Its a rare one as well, as it's a double Naval issue, being originally a German Kriegsmarine issue, that after surrender, was one of the small number issued to the Norwegian Navy, and thus escaped the 1950's conversion to 30-06.
Its not quite all matching though being bolt and buttplate miss-matched. Does still have an original German sling though.

[Ovidio]

Now this is a lot of K98k's.......

Part of the 300,000 or so K98k's being sorted in Norway after the German surrender in 1945.

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...erholdin-1.jpg


My Norwegian surrender K98k might in that pile somewhere

I love Mausers... I would jump into that pile like Uncle Scrooge does in coins...

[Surpmil]

That's the best thing about buy French surplus rifles, never used and only dropped once.

Before the Beeb's coding took over the page there yesterday, I was trying to say that we should not be too quick to judge the French military of 1940. In fact many, probably most units fought hard and well - the German losses speak to that.

The performance of the BEF, particularly the high command, was nothing to crow about, and but for the French holding much of the Dunkirk perimeter, how many would have escaped?

And but for Churchill and the Channel the end would have been the same as that of France.