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I just bought a Waffenfrabrik Mauser Oberndorf / Westley Richards chambered in 275 Mauser (7x57)
Anybody on this forum have some knowledge of these rifles ?
Mike
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Would love to see a few pictures
What you have done is not nearly as important as how you have done it!!!
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That’s as pretty a bolt-action rifle as I can remember seeing. Congrats!
It ain't like it used to be but it'll do.
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I believe you can get a letter for it from Westley Richards. Very nice rifle!
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now if there is a rifle that flutters my putter as much as a Savage 99 it would be a Oberndorf mauser in 275 Rigby!
that is a fine rifle right there!
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I believe you can get a letter for it from Westley Richards. Very nice rifle! Yeah , I think they want $100 The thing about this one #3399x seems to be a lower number than what they have listed. It also seems to be a bit plain for a Westley Richards bolt action , no engraving on this one. I'm really not finding much information about them on the internet. Mike
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Griffin&Howe has records for 33990.
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You might try asking on the "Classic and Single Barrel Rifle" forum of www.doublegunshop.com/BBS when you get everything you can from the 'Fire. I think it is the fourth forum in the BBS list; may have the title slightly wrong. Lots of classic bolt and single shot collectors and 'smiths there, plus lots of Anglophiles and a flew Anglos. Very civilized crowd in my experience.
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I have discovered that this rifle has not one but two serial numbers.
The 1st serial # is the Mauser number. 634 , it is on the receiver and most all the other parts & pieces. That puts this rifle in the 1st year of production for the Gewehr 98 , 1st year numbers were 1-900'
The 2nd serial # , 33995 is only on the receiver near as I can tell. Westley Richards had to of put that one on there. The Brits import guns then they gotta stamp their own marks on them , they just can't leave 'em alone.
Mike
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6mm250,
TRUE FACT. = My brother has a 1930s commercial production Colt's Automatic Pistol in .45ACP and another Colt's Model of 1908 Automatic in ,380ACP.
Both went to WWII to GB in 1939-40 and despite the considerable amount of Colt's factory stamping on slide/frame, BOTH are prominently stamped: Not English Manufacture.
(My Uncle Jack, who wasn't "very fond" of Brits after his service in WWI, often said, "Brits are just like yard dogs, as they just cannot resist not marking everything that they see.")
yours, tex
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