![]() The bore has excellent rifling & no visible pitting or other nastiness. ![]() This rifle is in very good condition for its age as can be seen in the photos. Turkey staunchly maintained her neutrality to the end of the war but was (like the Spanish & Portuguese) a little more neutral towards some sides than others, giving haven to Germans escaping the Soviet juggernaut in Bulgaria & Romania in 1944 & from the British & Americans in Greece in 1944-45. Although neutral, the Turks were courted by both the Axis & the Allies during the war. This is mainly because Turkey was officially neutral during WW2, meaning these were not carried in combat by a belligerent of WW2. These have been overlooked until recently by many collectors as they have often been seen as ‘on the spectrum’ of Mauser collectables, because although they were seen as Mauser rifles (many were made for the Turks by Mauser) they were just not as well known but are now becoming more desirable. Many on the collector market in Australia were converted from earlier German made rifles & the remainder were manufactured by one of several Turkish Arms factories, as this example was. The Model 1938 is pretty much the final version on the lineage of this rifle which was based on the German Gewehr 98 infantry rifle. Offered for sale from an Australian collection this Turkish Model 1938 Mauser rifle.
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