How Rare / Common is this thing?

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Folks, I present to you a Geha 2-shot, bolt action shotgun. From all accounts it is a converted Mauser Gewehr 98 rifle bored out for a 12 Gauge shotshell, with 1 shell in the magazine plus 1 in the chamber capacity. I found what appears to be the most insightful information about this gun but I was wondering if anyone else has one of these?

http://readingbreak.com/features/johng/1/geha.htm

The pictures can be seen below:

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Interesting link. Some inaccuracies - the G98 magazine and trigger guard was retained, and new barrels were fitted.
They aren't rare, but get little respect. Some folks worry that the only thing keeping the bolt closed is the third "safety" lug.
The bolthead is not positively retained; held in place by the modified extractor. Sometimes the guns turn up with the bolthead missing.
There is a long history of ex-military arms being converted into shotguns.
 
To bad that you are relegating it to a dark existence.

Those old girls are tough. I had one that had thousands of high velocity Gevelot 12 guage loads through it. Birdshot, No2, No4, 00 Buck and slugs. Not one single failure to fire or to eject.

IMHO, it would be a great candidate to clean up, re blue, mount a scope and make it into a 100+ yard slug rifle.

I have a Remo-Premier that doesn't seem to be as strong but it has never given a hiccup either and puts the cheap Walmart Federal brand 2 3/4 slugs into 4 in at 100M consistently. Puts 00 Buck into an 8in pattern at 50 yards and places one pattern right on top of the other consistently.

Take the old girl out and play with her. She is strong and able.
 
It's got to be better built than a Marlin Goose Gun and they feed those Magnum 10's & 12's like Smarties to a fat kid.
Clean it up and shoot it.
For what my 2 cents is worth
Stay safe
 
I picked one up years ago. The stock is cracked on the left side of the receiver and no firing pin. The barrel and action are in good shape. I'd like to try it but no pin and the bad stock kind of kybosh that idea. So if you are interested in making a nice working one let me know.
Cheers
 
Ar180shooter said:
Why not? The third safety lug is more than enough for the very mild pressures produced by 12ga rounds.
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De Haas covers them extensively in his book Bolt Action Rifles. Guess you can fire them without the bolt head, but you'd have to be pretty stupid. :) The next question would be, what length of shell are they chambered for. That could be the deal breaker.

Grizz
 
The only issues I have seen with these is some lug set back. I've never heard of one failing and I know at least one CGN'er who shoots his regularly.

I wouldn't mind finding a nice one in 20ga some day. I think they're pretty hard to find though.
 
Hmm, I'm still not sure... there was mention of some of these guns using 2 9/16" shells instead of 2 3/4". I think this would be my biggest fear apart from the disc falling out during rapid firing. Might be worth taking to a gunsmith maybe to be sure?
 
fordstick said:
Hmm, I'm still not sure... there was mention of some of these guns using 2 9/16" shells instead of 2 3/4". I think this would be my biggest fear apart from the disc falling out during rapid firing. Might be worth taking to a gunsmith maybe to be sure?
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Honestly, if those were dangerous and not to be fired, we'd tell you!!

A 98 action is plenty strong to handle any 12 gauge load.
 
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