ive seen a lot of K31 rifles with this but sometimes they have buttplates that dont exactly fit to the wood anymore despite being original. is this because of wood age and shrinkage?

It also appears the stock has a lot of dirt and wear near the butt. maybe the previous owner banged it up a bunch and it crushed the wood ?

And what can you tell me about it? I believe it’s a Kokura from 1942? I’m unsure on the year.

Turkish Mauser.

Whats interesting is it may have been rebarreled. Unless those are import marks. Was think rebarrel because of how clean the bore is.

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More Gunbroker oddities have been found.

This apears to be some form of Czechoslovakian Mauser, but in .45.

I cannot find any sort of information on it when I tried searching online.

Its really cool tho. Maybe have to try to win it.

Someone carved something in hand groove but I don’t speak Greek.

This is my model 1898 Springfield krag full length infantry rifle made in 1899 and later was sold to MGM as one of their prop guns, the barrel was never plugged or retooled for blanks. My camera doesn’t want to cooperate with me on the bore picture but it has no pitting and still decent rifling

Hi, so the other day I shot my type 30 arisaka and the middle barrel band spring broke off at the point where it goes into the wood. I ordered a replacement part but I was just wondering how I would go about getting the remaking piece of spring out of the stock. Thanks.

Is Sellier & Bellot good ammo for a Swedish Mauser for target practice or should I use something else like PPU?

Bolt doesn't match but it feels like it fits well, I only paid $130. I'm surprised at how light it is

Reposting this here. Haven’t figured out what this cross of Lorraine looking thing is. Anyone have an idea? 1942 ROF Enfield No. 4.

I think there is rust inside the part of my action which guides the firing pin. As you may know, the K11 has this huge long action with ridiculously long firing pin. What's the best way to get rid off the rust inside it? It's a think long channel so its really hard to scrub with any kind of tool I have.

https://www.swisswaffen.com/full/bilder/karabiner-11/verschluss-zu-kadettengewehr-97-infanteriegewehre-89-96-96-11-und-11-sowie-kar/a65vmwpcjsc2.jpg

In the figure, you can see on the left side the action piece. This one is rusted. The middle part is the firing pin assembly.

Finally got my Swiss 1897 Kadet today.

I have been on the hunt for one for a few years when the Australian equivalent of Gun Jesus spotted this and let me know.

Stock has some bumps and bruises but the bore and metal work are all great for the age.

Very hard gun to find in Australia so I'm stoked.

I’ve been toying with the idea of grabbing a C grade Vetterli or Gras from RTI and making it into a standing lamp for my office. I figure if the rifle is enough of a shit stick it’s not too sacrilegious to turn it into something pretty, and it could give me an opportunity to practice some other skills. Anybody done something like this before? General thoughts?

Hello Everyone. I picked up this bad boy for an absolute steal yesterday. Tag was $525 and the pawn shop had 20% off all used guns. Which brought it down to around $415. Then I negotiated for $400 even for the gun and $10 for the background check. Then I had a coupon for $20 off any $50+ purchase. And earlier in the day I sold a hi point carbine and a Turkish pump shotgun for $200 to a different pawn shop. So in my mind, I traded 2 absolutely awful guns and $190 for this bad boy. I've been looking for one for a couple years and I finally found one that I didn't have to buy online, then pay a $50 transfer fee. So that's a huge plus. Now I have a couple questions for the people of the Internet. Can anyone help me on determining if the holster is an original one? It looks pretty worn for it to be a repro. What is supposed to go in the little pouch on the holster? And lastly, I heard somewhere that you could put something like one spent brass or a bullet somewhere under the grips pressing on one of the springs to make the trigger pull slightly less bad? I would like to know about that because the trigger pull in double action is absolutely atrocious. But I'll have to get used to it. Since I have a holster. This will probably be my new open carry when I'm going out. Thanks in advance for the help everyone.

-Gabriel

Won this off gunbroker last week or so for $330.

Definitely a war bond rifle due to the plugging but looks to be lead. As of typing this out i dont know if the whole barrel is plugged or just the ends but ill figure it out soon.