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Dad brought a "treasure" home from his early morning garage sale mission last weekend and I'm trying to help him research what he has. Have any of you come accross a tubular magazine 98 sporter before? I know there were some post WWI 2-shot shotgun builds (Geha, Remo, Hard Hit Hard) but this one has a multi-shot magazine running the full length of the forearm under the barrel. The barrel is marked "Remo Cal. 44" with "Krupp" and "Stahl" markings and the chamber cast measures as a 44-40!? It has a pressed horn buttplate labeled Remo as well. He sent this poor quality picture and is working on sending some more showing the elevator/magazine mechanism. Can anyone shed some light? Did Remo use a surplus military action to build this sporter during the Treaty of Versailles for an American customer ("Cal. 44")? Current value? Thanks for your help. ![[Linked Image]](http://i38.tinypic.com/28a3hoy.jpg)
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Is that a Ruger stock that's been rebuilt to fit the Mauser in? Sure looks like it...
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Great looking rifle............
Only tube fed Mauser that I know of was the 71/84, and that ain't it.
Sure a lot of work to adapt a long action bolt gun to a lever action cartridge.
Hope that your dad sends you a lot more pictures. This could get interesting!
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very neat! If you look closely at yours and the one I am selling you will see similarities in the trigger barrel and sights, so it is likely from that era.
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It would be interesting to know how they dealt with the recoil lug and front action bolt. I would love to see a picture of that action out of the stock.
Harry
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A few years ago on GB there was an FN Mauser Sporter
in .44-40 caliber, with a tubular magazine that ran the
length of the barrel. Dont remember what it sold for.
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