The S is for 8x56r right?

Traces back to a bundle of rifles for Imperial Germany

Neat

And then the obvious Waffenampts

And yeah this one is 8x56R

What about Weimar stuff, or is that just sorta implied?

The 2nd serial number

It has 3

All on the stock

Damn nigga

That’s a lot of history in one rifle

Yuup

Is it a stutzen or full length?

Stutz

Some things suggest that she used to be full length at one point

fugg

Not bubba'd

That’s like, Finn mosin tier

For amount of owners and conversions

A real oddball

Just the wood panels at the end of the rifle look like they were recut. Albeit professionally or at least by someone who knew exactly what they were doing

Duffle cut or actual repair?

I assume just whenever the rifle was shortened if it was shortened. They didnt wanna toss out the wood so they just cut it I'd assume

It doesn't have any varnish like the rest of the rifle. Just a small layer to seal it so it doesnt rot

I just hate the import mark is on the underside of the barrel

Thankfully you cant realy see it so its whatever

Mother of god the

s t a c k i n g
h o o k

I love ‘em

Ye

She's real beaten up though

Like this rifle has surely seen some shit

Two world wars

The worst bits of both, I imagine

Yeah

It would have been a substitute standard rifle for both Germanys, and not given to the best of troops

Either the Westfront shooting Frenchman in the streets or more likely the hell of the Ostfront in some alley of Stalingrad or even the fields of Poland

That’s like my No.4

She’s a 1942, and a little beat up

Either way it somehow survived long enough to get all the way back to the states and kept in well almost perfect condition for how old it is