Gew 1888/05/35 Turkish Ankara 1939 Conversion of Ludwig Loewe Gew 88/05
- Category
- Firearms Rifles
- Classification
- Non-restricted
- Action
- Bolt
- Condition
- Very Good
- Manufacturer
- (other)
- Caliber
- 8 mm Mauser (8x57)
- Sight
- Blade front sight and Tangent rear
- Capacity
- 5
- Hand
- Right Handed or Ambidextrous
Howdy Gunpost. I have a really interesting piece for you here. This is a conversion of a conversion rifle. This is a German made Ludwig Loewe Gew 88 that was later converted by the Germans into a Gew 88/05 and most likely given to the Ottomans in WWI as war aid. Many of these were retained and later converted in the 1930's to a Mauser 1935 pattern type rifle. They converted a large portion of their arsenal to this pattern including SMLE's a plethora of their different Mausers, and Gew 88's they had in inventory.
This rifle was rebarreled to shoot the modern 8mm Mauser cartridge and re-stocked into a more Mauser-esq stock. This stock features Mauser bolt disassembly disks despite them not being required for the Gew 88 action. The stock on this particular example had a fairly large wood defect that the Turks neglected to address has been fixed. It was cleaned out and filled with Brownells Acraglas epoxy so it's rock solid now.
The overall condition is good. The stock was professionally refinished. The bore is excellent, very sharp and clean rifling.
The rifle is located in Calgary AB for pickup or I can ship it nationwide on the buyer's dime.
PAL will be verified as per C-71
