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8x68s or 300 win mag ???
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<blockquote data-quote="Gert Odendaal" data-source="post: 1621736" data-attributes="member: 55142"><p>Sabel, here is some info regarding the rifle photo you send me:</p><p></p><p><strong>Betreff:</strong> AW: Cape Rifle : Long Mauser stock design</p><p>Hi Gert,</p><p></p><p>everything is running well here, excepr old age (71 by now) creepeing in. Getting old is not for cowards!</p><p></p><p>The photo you sent show neither a Meffert nor Funk nor Wolf nor any other Suhl made rifle. It shows a Mauser, Oberndorf, factory type L "African" model factory sporter with octagonal barrel and tangent rear sight. These L African sporters came with 70 cm barrels, 36 cm length of pull and 35 cm (from receiver ring) "3/4" foreends. The Suhl gunmakers made similar long barreled Mauser rifles to order, with barrels up to 80 cm, but more often with normal short length foreends. Today, You will be hard pressed to find even a round 70cm barrel, let alone an 80 cm or octagan or half octagan one. Here is a German article on such rifles from an old issue of the defunct "Hatari Times". Here in Germany my friend Max Ern and family (mentined in that article) may build such a rifle on order, but it will be expensive.</p><p></p><p>Waidmannsheil!</p><p></p><p>Axel</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gert Odendaal, post: 1621736, member: 55142"] Sabel, here is some info regarding the rifle photo you send me: [B]Betreff:[/B] AW: Cape Rifle : Long Mauser stock design Hi Gert, everything is running well here, excepr old age (71 by now) creepeing in. Getting old is not for cowards! The photo you sent show neither a Meffert nor Funk nor Wolf nor any other Suhl made rifle. It shows a Mauser, Oberndorf, factory type L "African" model factory sporter with octagonal barrel and tangent rear sight. These L African sporters came with 70 cm barrels, 36 cm length of pull and 35 cm (from receiver ring) "3/4" foreends. The Suhl gunmakers made similar long barreled Mauser rifles to order, with barrels up to 80 cm, but more often with normal short length foreends. Today, You will be hard pressed to find even a round 70cm barrel, let alone an 80 cm or octagan or half octagan one. Here is a German article on such rifles from an old issue of the defunct "Hatari Times". Here in Germany my friend Max Ern and family (mentined in that article) may build such a rifle on order, but it will be expensive. Waidmannsheil! Axel [/QUOTE]
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