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hope this works, this is my 43 mauser oskar kob re colored
 
Turkish Mauser in 8x57 picked up on last Orangeville show.like I say in other post it's all complete except for cleaning rod and total mismatch.

It took me a week to clean bore and wood (lots of copper in bore but someone put good gun oil or grease in it so it almost shines)

Throat slugs .327 and it does look like it has been shot a lot.

Luckily I have oversize lyman 8mm mold and ammo loaded with it and 13Gr of Red Dot prints nice 4inch group without fliers right at point of aim.



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So far, this month is quite good for me... :)
Traded for two interesting Mausers:
A Peruvian 1909 with Peruvian long bayonet, (sorry, no pictures yet)
and
A Persian Mauser 98/29, in unissued, unfired condition, with number matching bayonet.

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You can imagine that the Persian Mauser didn't stay in it's unfired condition for too long.
 
1861 snider MkII**, needs full resto but it's almost all there.

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1909 Finnish capture M91 Mosin Nagant civil gauged rifle. Have been looking for a Mosin for awhile, found this one at a show and had to have it.

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Couldn't resist this oddity of a rifle. It's a Turkish Forestry Carbine. Only about 8000 made in total from some captured Berthier rifles. Now I just need to track down some 8x50r Lebel.

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I don't know about the numbers, but the Turk Forestry Carbines weren't made up from captured rifles. They were purpose built at a time when Turkey was on a prohibited list to purchase firearms for their military.

France and Turkey got around this by ordering the rifles for their "Forestry Service" and so marked the rifles with a circular stamp on the butt to get around the embargoes.

Nice rifle by the way. If the bore is in good condition, they usually shoot very well.

P&S Militaria has the new made three round clips for that rifle at very good prices.
 
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bearhunter said:
I don't know about the numbers, but the Turk Forestry Carbines weren't made up from captured rifles. They were purpose built at a time when Turkey was on a prohibited list to purchase firearms for their military.

France and Turkey go around this by ordering the rifles for their "Forestry Service" and so marked the rifles with a circular stamp on the butt to get around the embargoes.

Nice rifle by the way. If the bore is in good condition, they usually shoot very well.

P&S Militaria has the new made three round clips for that rifle at very good prices.
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The bore is quite nice overall. Not perfect by any means but given its age I'm quite pleased. As for the clips, already got 2 of them which is plenty for me.

As for the rifles history, I'm taking it from this site. http://www.milsurps.com/content.php?r=287-Mod%E8le-1907-15-Mannlicher-Berthier-%28Turkish-Forestry-Service-Carbine%29
 
Morc said:
The bore is quite nice overall. Not perfect by any means but given its age I'm quite pleased. As for the clips, already got 2 of them which is plenty for me.

As for the rifles history, I'm taking it from this site. http://www.milsurps.com/content.php?r=287-Mod%E8le-1907-15-Mannlicher-Berthier-%28Turkish-Forestry-Service-Carbine%29
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Yeah, I saw that over there. My information comes from WD Ball's Firearms of the World. So far, I haven't been able to find fault with his information. He goes into depth as far as pressure testing etc.

Whatever, they are nice rifles. Mine has an excellent bore and shoots as well as I can hold it. I took a very tasty bear with it, useing some handload about five years ago. The shot was slightly over 150 meters. Dead on hold to the lung area and the bear walked about 5 meters before laying down. It was stone dead by the time I got to it.
 
polaris said:
So far, this month is quite good for me... :)
Traded for two interesting Mausers:
A Peruvian 1909 with Peruvian long bayonet, (sorry, no pictures yet)
and
A Persian Mauser 98/29, in unissued, unfired condition, with number matching bayonet.

Pers1.jpg



You can imagine that the Persian Mauser didn't stay in it's unfired condition for too long.
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Beautiful - makes my knees weak!
 
bearhunter said:
Yeah, I saw that over there. My information comes from WD Ball's Firearms of the World. So far, I haven't been able to find fault with his information. He goes into depth as far as pressure testing etc.

Whatever, they are nice rifles. Mine has an excellent bore and shoots as well as I can hold it. I took a very tasty bear with it, useing some handload about five years ago. The shot was slightly over 150 meters. Dead on hold to the lung area and the bear walked about 5 meters before laying down. It was stone dead by the time I got to it.
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I would not rely too much on Ball. He's a generalist and many of his assertions are suspect. In 1948, Turkey was an ally of the western powers from 1944 onward, and certainly was NOT under an allied embargo in 1948. In 1949, Turkey was still harbouring displaced European jews leading up to the creation of israel and receiving US military aid under the Truman doctrine in 1947.

In other words - ball is talking out of his rectum.
 
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