*** New smaller pics lower down in the thread. Sorry!***
This is the second one I am listing. As before, please bear with me. Her old guns are way out of my league knowledge-wise. I looked without success for hours to find one reference with a pic of this same rifle. I have to say that in the short time I have handled this rifle, I have fallen in love with its feel. It has double triggers. Pull the rear trigger to set it. The SLIGHTEST touch on the front trigger is all it takes to fire. There is a small screw behind the trigger, so it may adjust. The barrel is 24" from the muzzle to where it joins the action, The wood stock isn't broken. The is no writing that I can find on the rifle, other than the letters BU. Lots of scrollwork and designs in the action, floorplate, trigger guard, and on the flat bolt. The buttplate has a piece 3/4" long that is broken and missing from the second screw down to the bottom. The rifle isn't heavy like I thought it would be. It shoulders and balances well; it's easy to line the sights up and hold it steady, and that says a lot coming from me. I tried a .30-06 down the muzzle and if has a small amount of play. I tried a .35 and is a little too big to start down the muzzle. So for now, I think it must be 8mm.
This is all I can find on the gun on the internet. This looks very much like what I am selling except for the bolt and the raised wood on both sides of the stock. The one I'm selling has a flat bolt, and it doesn't have that raised piece of wood on the sides under the action, nor does it have that metal piece between the raised wood and the forend (looks like what my muzzleloader has to remove the barrel).
http://www.armslist.com/posts/1413138/state-college-pennsylvania-rifles-for-sale--extremely-rare-german-sniper-rifle-1-of-6-known-stateside-
More info on them if I'm barking up the right tree. Still no other flat bolts though. About halfway down the page: http://collectiblefirearms.com/RiflesMauser.html
Now the hard part. I have literally no base to start from on this rifle. I can't find anything on the internet except for info on a couple 0f similar ones that were listed on other sites several years ago, and none are exactly like this. The ads I found are all from 6-9 years ago, and they ranged from $1200-$3000 depending on condition and whether scoped or not. So where to begin with an unknown rifle? I have to believe that not finding a single image or description of a rifle exactly like this one does verify that very few were brought back to the USA as a war trophy, like Mr. Edwards did this one. It is listed with papers he kept with his army discharge, along with the other guns he brought home. The question is: does rare equal value? I don't know. I have to start somewhere, so here goes my newly-edited and much lower price: $650 shipped and insured.
This is the second one I am listing. As before, please bear with me. Her old guns are way out of my league knowledge-wise. I looked without success for hours to find one reference with a pic of this same rifle. I have to say that in the short time I have handled this rifle, I have fallen in love with its feel. It has double triggers. Pull the rear trigger to set it. The SLIGHTEST touch on the front trigger is all it takes to fire. There is a small screw behind the trigger, so it may adjust. The barrel is 24" from the muzzle to where it joins the action, The wood stock isn't broken. The is no writing that I can find on the rifle, other than the letters BU. Lots of scrollwork and designs in the action, floorplate, trigger guard, and on the flat bolt. The buttplate has a piece 3/4" long that is broken and missing from the second screw down to the bottom. The rifle isn't heavy like I thought it would be. It shoulders and balances well; it's easy to line the sights up and hold it steady, and that says a lot coming from me. I tried a .30-06 down the muzzle and if has a small amount of play. I tried a .35 and is a little too big to start down the muzzle. So for now, I think it must be 8mm.
This is all I can find on the gun on the internet. This looks very much like what I am selling except for the bolt and the raised wood on both sides of the stock. The one I'm selling has a flat bolt, and it doesn't have that raised piece of wood on the sides under the action, nor does it have that metal piece between the raised wood and the forend (looks like what my muzzleloader has to remove the barrel).
http://www.armslist.com/posts/1413138/state-college-pennsylvania-rifles-for-sale--extremely-rare-german-sniper-rifle-1-of-6-known-stateside-
More info on them if I'm barking up the right tree. Still no other flat bolts though. About halfway down the page: http://collectiblefirearms.com/RiflesMauser.html
Now the hard part. I have literally no base to start from on this rifle. I can't find anything on the internet except for info on a couple 0f similar ones that were listed on other sites several years ago, and none are exactly like this. The ads I found are all from 6-9 years ago, and they ranged from $1200-$3000 depending on condition and whether scoped or not. So where to begin with an unknown rifle? I have to believe that not finding a single image or description of a rifle exactly like this one does verify that very few were brought back to the USA as a war trophy, like Mr. Edwards did this one. It is listed with papers he kept with his army discharge, along with the other guns he brought home. The question is: does rare equal value? I don't know. I have to start somewhere, so here goes my newly-edited and much lower price: $650 shipped and insured.
