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I just picked up a nice Mauser 8 x 57 js sporter ,marked only JGA ...you guys have any other interesting info ?
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J. G. Anschütz Mehlis.
Cheers,
Raimey
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Newf,
Post photos of all the markings, especially proofmarks under the barrel;and we can likely give you additional info.
Mike
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Thanks guys ..I have a hard time getting pics up here ..I could email to someone
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Send them on.....
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Raimey
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RWE = Königliche Gewehrfabrik Erfurt. Seems it has an old and a newer Imperial Eagle.   Old Imperial Eagle on frame.  Never stylized Eagle over M - Material mark - so a new tube by JGA?  Lovely palette of mechanic marks. That cross-hatching on tube looks like a post 1968 München touchmark. Cheers, Raimey rse
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In USA one sees post WWII customized Mausers from West Germany quite often. There must have been a kind of cottage industry in 40s, 50s and 60s. Many of those often surface on second-hand market especially if one lives in area with good density of older Military veterans who served in Europe.
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Thanks Raimey ,I've wanted a sporter project to restock for years but was waiting for the right gun ,and found this a couple months ago ,got a nice blank lined up and will maybe hit it when the paying work slacks off
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I haven't seen any other images, but I'm curious if this was an actual RWE Sporter or RWE receiver that was made between the end of WWI & say 1922? Possibly rebarreled by JGA?
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Raimey
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Rw.E. = Reichswerke Erfurt, exists only 1919, 1920, than DWE without manufacturing rifles.
It's not an imperial Eagle, it's the eagle in "chicken form", only used by Erfurt, Danzig and Amberg 1919-1920.
JGA in this form was never the logo of JG.Anschütz.
M under eagle is the material proof mark since 1952, proof house Munich since 1968 is correct.
This is a postwar commercial rifle made up of leftover 98a components, made by the remnants of Erfurt.
Curious marks and I think before it's not proofed again, never fire it.
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