ID this gun!

[drache]

Found this picture online:

 

[VancouverSkiBum]

Cool! ill guess A Mosin.

 

[desporterizer]

Styer m95 carbine.

 

[BeaverMeat]

Styer m95 carbine.

Half right.

Steyr-Mannlicher M1888, M1888-90, or M1890

What do I win?

 

[drache]

Half right.

Steyr-Mannlicher M1888, M1888-90, or M1890

What do I win?

Did you actually ID it by knowledge or reverse image search?

 

[VancouverSkiBum]

Lol.

 

[kennymo]

So what's the story on this one? Soldier prop it up against a tree near the turn of the last century or during the big one?

 

[BeaverMeat]

Did you actually ID it by knowledge or reverse image search?

I am a google master... typed in WW1 rifles and went from there.

 

[tootall]

Whatever it is, its no good for tree defence,
The tree clearly won this fight.

 

[flying pig]

I wonder if the barrel is still straight? Kind of neat, looks like it is still in decent shape. Wonder what the condition of the metal is below the woodline?

 

[desporterizer]

Did you actually ID it by knowledge or reverse image search?

Its pretty obvious actually, I just missed the rear sight configuration.

 

[BeaverMeat]

Its pretty obvious actually, I just missed the rear sight configuration.

...and how the magazine is separate from the trigger guard.

 

[fraserdw]

IT's loaded call in the RCMP so they can run around with their heads cut off, until they remember the Army does ordnance disposal.

 

[myenfield]

So will it be popping up on the EE soon as a restoration project?
"Steyr-Mannlicher for sale - easy rebuild project as barreled action comes with partially inletted wood"

 

[smellie]

I WISH!

I'd be on that one like soy sauce on fried rice. VERY interesting actions on that rifle.

I wonder if the photo was taken in Northern Italy...... say.... somewhere in the valley of the Isonzo....

 

[H Wally]

Or 1886

Half right.

Steyr-Mannlicher M1888, M1888-90, or M1890

What do I win?

 

[lyman54]

Amazing photo. Remained just where it was placed after all these years. I remember Vincent Auto a scrapyard in Montreal. There were huge trees with large car parts in them, some high off the ground. Not much will stop the growth of a tree.

 

[RRCo.]

This is where it came from: ht tp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2602084/Nature-war-How-helmets-grenades-guns-discarded-world-wars-enmeshed-tree-trunks-Russia.html

 

[EL34/6L6]

The mag, and its shape was the giveaway that its a Steyr.

 

[SW28fan]

I believe the tree is a beech so while being way oversized the natural stock is correct.