Dave DeLaurant
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The third and last rifle I purchased from the estate I've been working with is a rather nice postwar-refurbed No.4
The metal is really nice and the bore looks like you could eat off of it -- possibly an unused replacement barrel? Here's a slightly blurred pic of the markings:
A few dings on the stock and the magazine doesn't match, but otherwise quite minty. It's in far better original condition than my other No. 4, which is a bit of a mixmaster:
Last week I was also fooling around with an interwar Erma .22 Mauser 98 conversion and managed to get it fitted properly in the Turkish K.Kale Mauser from the same estate. Here's a few pix:
It looks like the bolt is partly open, but that's as far down as she goes. Note also that it's positioned about an inch further back than the normal bolt. The conversion requires removing the bolt along with magazine floorplate, spring and follower. There's a couple sets of blind holes that are turned with pin punches to lock the conversion into the action. Woe be unto anyone who tightens the rear one incorrectly -- it takes a vise and mallet to get it unstuck.
The length of the insert is sized to the K98k, so it ends inside the bore several inches short of this Turkish rifle's muzzle. I'm looking forward to some range time with it next week.
This unit was purchased from Simpson's along with a second Erma .22 conversion unit, a rather neat single shot arrangement that I currently have installed on a Yugo 98/48 with a repro ZF-41 scope.
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The metal is really nice and the bore looks like you could eat off of it -- possibly an unused replacement barrel? Here's a slightly blurred pic of the markings:
A few dings on the stock and the magazine doesn't match, but otherwise quite minty. It's in far better original condition than my other No. 4, which is a bit of a mixmaster:
Last week I was also fooling around with an interwar Erma .22 Mauser 98 conversion and managed to get it fitted properly in the Turkish K.Kale Mauser from the same estate. Here's a few pix:
It looks like the bolt is partly open, but that's as far down as she goes. Note also that it's positioned about an inch further back than the normal bolt. The conversion requires removing the bolt along with magazine floorplate, spring and follower. There's a couple sets of blind holes that are turned with pin punches to lock the conversion into the action. Woe be unto anyone who tightens the rear one incorrectly -- it takes a vise and mallet to get it unstuck.
The length of the insert is sized to the K98k, so it ends inside the bore several inches short of this Turkish rifle's muzzle. I'm looking forward to some range time with it next week.
This unit was purchased from Simpson's along with a second Erma .22 conversion unit, a rather neat single shot arrangement that I currently have installed on a Yugo 98/48 with a repro ZF-41 scope.
Erma Modell 3 K98k 22 Rimfire Conversion Unit
This is an expansion and re-edit of my earlier video, with audio and shooting appended. (text continues below)Granted, most of the audio is the sound of noi...
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I really like that .22 conversion set up, that makes for a nice training rifle (and a cool piece of history, too!).
