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Picked this one up a while back. It's been rebarreled in 30.06 and I love it. I'd like to find a bayonet if anyone could point out the right one for me.
Thanks !
By the look of it any German GEW98, or K98k bayonet would fit on it, the Peruvian bayonet would look similar, and have the Peru crest on it. I don't know who would have one, set a search on gunbroker and eBay, could take awhile to find one.. Nice rifle.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Wow that is nice. Even has the lange roller coaster sight. Love it
The commerce which maybe carried on with the people inhabiting the line you will pursue renders a knowledge of these people important ~Thomas Jefferson~ (to- Lewis and Clark)
This is a German GEW98, but made for Peru, and made to take a standard leather strap sling.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
catcracker wrote:Another rifle I don't know anything about. But it sure looks sweet. Love the markings.
Cat
You know what the K98k German Mauser of WW2 is right? The K98 is a shorter version of the GEW1898 Mauser the Germans used during WW1. The Peru 1909 Mauser is just that same GEW1898 but with Peruvian markings. The Mauser company had to stay busy and as the GEW98 rifle was not considered a state secret they were allowed to shop it to other nations and many in Southg America took them up on it. Argentina, Brazil, Peru, just to name some that used the 1898 rifle except chambered for 7mm, or 7.65mm. This Peruvian rifle was made on the same line in the same factory in Germany that made the German armys own rifles.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Thanks for the info. I am very weak in the area of Mausers. Some of that is kind of on purpose. I don't need another model to start collecting. It would break the bank for sure.
Cat