Thread: WW2 surrendered rifles

Piles of Rifles surrendered by German Soldiers after the End of the Second World War, 1945. Imagine if somehow we could wander around that stack of rifles and take our pick.... I'm drooling....

Yep..and Sod's Law says that the mint ones would be on the very bottom.

100 per stack / pallet

Apart from the straight out collectables, a nice sporter sniper type would be nice
Isn't that sort of how parker hale kept going after the war? Shit ton of those in railway carriages?
Mind think quite a few did the same thing
BSA did it with the P14/17 Enfield as well

Cindy would be drooling at prospect of cranking up the crusher just looking at that photo....

All of the recent refurbished K98's out of Russia came from piles like that!

@gundoc obviously a lot of piles like that but bet the ruskis got a lot from Stsingrad all the way to Berlin

Even worse were all the Oberndorf mausers confiscated and cut up during the Botswana war, there were Kurz, and magnum actions, double square bridge, Type A and Type B's etc.

Originally Posted by csmiffy

Apart from the straight out collectables, a nice sporter sniper type would be nice
Isn't that sort of how parker hale kept going after the war? Shit ton of those in railway carriages?
Mind think quite a few did the same thing
BSA did it with the P14/17 Enfield as well

Yes parker hale had a big pile of them they used for parts. My 3006 safari made in 62 has the waffennamp on the magazine follower.

Cindy would be drooling at prospect of cranking up the crusher just looking at that photo..''

Yeah, those were actual assault rifles.

Originally Posted by oxfarmer

Cindy would be drooling at prospect of cranking up the crusher just looking at that photo..''

Yeah, those were actual assault rifles.

Ah but they aren’t black and evil!

All front lockers, sorry, not interested...

Originally Posted by gundoc

All of the recent refurbished K98's out of Russia came from piles like that!

Not that Pile.

That pile was in Stavanger Norway, at the airfield in Sola.

Most of those Rifles are still here, rebarreled in 7.62x63. They were issued to Reserve troops up untill the 1980s, then were available to purchase for 100kr ($15).

The Norwegian F-1 variant had the receicer ring notched to accept the longer cartrige as well as an improved rear sight. The big diffetence between the F-1 and RC shitpiles are that the F1s were generally not force matched. All except the Naval, Coadt Artillery and Railroad guns got new barrels,.

They made a few F-2 variants chambered in 7.62x51 either by way of a new tube or chamber insert. They are around but very rare.

I feel sorry for the guy standing there with the paperwork.

Originally Posted by oxfarmer

Cindy would be drooling at prospect of cranking up the crusher just looking at that photo..''

Yeah, those were actual assault rifles.

No they are battle rifles like most of the historical pieces that criminally went through the crusher such as M1's, SLRs etc. I doubt many if any real assault rifles went through the crusher except maybe some semi converted AKMs, M16's and STGs (gulp!).