Seitengewehr

While searching various military surplus websites, I come across one website in particular that was advertising Gew 88 rifles for sale very cheap, but in very poor condition with missing parts, but alas, they were all sold out. Damn, and I wanted one, so the quest began & I diligently searched til I found one. […]

The Gewehr 88 (commonly called the Model 1888 Commission Rifle) was a late 19th century German bolt-action rifle, adopted in 1888.
The invention of smokeless powder in the late 19th century immediately rendered all of the large-bore black powder rifles then in use obsolete. To keep pace with the French (who had adopted smokeless powder “small […]