Thread: Old school hunting

Originally Posted by bumblefoot

Speaking of drooling.... K98s being packed up after WW2....

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@NIMROD Dad's old farming mags had the Valentine's surplus store ads on te back page. I used to drool at the ads for new/in grease Jungle carbines and M1 carbines for $26! Sorry for the old man "in my day" references!

That's a pretty famous picture from Sola airfield in Southern Norway.

None of those Rifles were exported whole to make sporters . Most were rebarreled in 3006 and some later in 308 but very few.. The Navy kept theirs in 7.92 but the Army,Airforce,Railways and Coastal Artilly got remarried ones. They were still in use up until the 80s in dome reserve units. They were sold out to service personal for about $10 each

Until about 2015 there were still a few thousand in a warehouse on the east coast,they could not be exported because of a ban on weapon exports. Its rumoured Frakonia Jakt bought them,broke them down and used the receivers for their hunting rifles.