Gewehr 98
I just had an email from a really knowledgeable man in Munich. He calls himself Feuerbixler-Biggi. His website is www.feuerbixler.de. It contains a lot of historical information about the history of German firearms.
Biggi told me that you guys seem to "have been digging in the fog." He says that the gun 1) is a Wehrmannsgewehr 2)could have been built in 1911 3) was directly ordered at the Mauser plant as a "noble Wehrmannsgewehr" and probably been engraved there 4) was never intended to be used for military service because there are no acceptance stamps 5) it might be possible that the barrel was exchanged 6) that a double trigger for target shooting was installed because in the class of Wehrmanns shooting there were only single triggers allowed.
More info on the Wehrmannsgewehr, you will find on his website.
I just had an email from a really knowledgeable man in Munich. He calls himself Feuerbixler-Biggi. His website is www.feuerbixler.de. It contains a lot of historical information about the history of German firearms.
Biggi told me that you guys seem to "have been digging in the fog." He says that the gun 1) is a Wehrmannsgewehr 2)could have been built in 1911 3) was directly ordered at the Mauser plant as a "noble Wehrmannsgewehr" and probably been engraved there 4) was never intended to be used for military service because there are no acceptance stamps 5) it might be possible that the barrel was exchanged 6) that a double trigger for target shooting was installed because in the class of Wehrmanns shooting there were only single triggers allowed.
More info on the Wehrmannsgewehr, you will find on his website.