Anti-Tank Mauser

[bigthaiboy]

Now THAT is an original story, lol! That's about as unique as those bridge maintenance workers finding the WW2 weapons under a bridge awhile back...

To be honest, I couldn't care less whether the story is true or not, it was a cool rifle to see up close. I wasn't going to pull the BS card on him, when he was kind enough to drag this thing out the back of his shop to show us.

[Saigon1965]

I don't doubt the story - Guys would burried stuff and when they pass away - No one knows until someone turn things upside down -

Now THAT is an original story, lol! That's about as unique as those bridge maintenance workers finding the WW2 weapons under a bridge awhile back...

[smeg]

Now THAT is an original story, lol! That's about as unique as those bridge maintenance workers finding the WW2 weapons under a bridge awhile back...

or their uncle who pryed if from the hands of a dead SS officer.


i'd love to have that rifle. i have a little collection of inert ww2 ordnance. a german 88mm shell in the living room always gets attention.

[Seesm]

Wow that is NOTHING like my Mauser...

[Spiggy]

I don't doubt the story - Guys would burried stuff and when they pass away - No one knows until someone turn things upside down -

In china, they recovered a couple millions of dollars worth in classical musical instruments from a deceased man's home. He had horded hundreds of pieces from Mao's revolutionists because western influence was abolished.

Prior to his meager life, he was an accomplished music teacher or something.

[gun toting monkeyboy]

That is the round that Browning based his 50 BMG on. The first British tanks had pretty thin armor, and that thing could punch right through them. Unfortunately for the Germans, it was deployed too late in the war to do much.

-Mb

[Tillers_Rule]

I thought the 50 BMG was based on the .30-06 round, just upscaled?

[HotRails]

One of these is on display at the Aberdeen proving grounds in Maryland, I have a picture somewhere...

[tuna quesadilla]

I thought the 50 BMG was based on the .30-06 round, just upscaled?

That's what I had heard too.

[TRAP55]

Grundmans in Rio Dell had one of these for sale a few months back, don't think it sold.

[renardsubtil]

To be honest, I couldn't care less whether the story is true or not, it was a cool rifle to see up close. I wasn't going to pull the BS card on him, when he was kind enough to drag this thing out the back of his shop to show us.

I wasn't trying to come off sarcastic actually so I apologize if I did...I wish Idda been there to see this piece of history myself...hell, I'd be really curious how one would ship this puppy home - course then again if it was WW1, who knows what the regulations were back then.

[bigthaiboy]

I wasn't trying to come off sarcastic actually so I apologize if I did...I wish Idda been there to see this piece of history myself...hell, I'd be really curious how one would ship this puppy home - course then again if it was WW1, who knows what the regulations were back then.

No apology necessary and no offence was taken. I know what you were try to say, I'm sure there's been a million stories about people finding valuable stuff in walls in old houses. In this case, I proned to believe him. This Mauser was in very good unrestored / unrefinished condition. If a rifle like that had been passed from collector to collector since being brought back after 1918, I'm sure it would have ended up being bubba'ed, or in a museum, or in the hands of a wealthy collector, by now. Instead, the first thing the finder did was take it to a pawn shop. The finder obviously had no idea what he had, and / or had no interest in firearms.

[pullnshoot25]

I have seen one of these rifles in person at Duncan's Gun Shop, it was a freaking MONSTER of a rifle. I wanted to fondle it but alas, 'twas not mine.

[ZRX61]

There's a video out there of some guy firing one of these things. He fires to the left of the screen & disappears out of view to the right when it goes off..

[Cato]

Neat stuff - Using iron sights too -

Extra cool with irons!

I understand you can detach your retinas if you shoot it too much.