• Savage Rifle Serial Number Lookup

Excellent info, itcboy. I added it to my Mauser data file. I've always been irritated by those who lump the Gewehr 88 Commission Rifle in with Mausers, when in fact Paul Mauser had no hand in it.

A 'turn down bolt handle' on m/1938 rifles indicates that the rifle is a converted m/1896. All m/96 had straight bolt handles. Husqvarna made m/1938 were normally produced as m/38 with the handle down from the beginning (like the picture above).

Savage Rifle Serial Number Lookup

I once bought a Steyr M95M at a pawnshop, where it was being tauted as a 'Mauser rifle' by virtue of it's being chambered for the 7.92X57 cartridge. I recently bought a Chinese T53 Carbine from another shop who were labeling it a 'Japanese rifle' due to it's chinese characters on the barrel. Sometimes this works in our favor, allowing us to get a good deal from someone who doesn't know the guns. Even so, I usually try to educate the seller on what it really is.