Originally Posted by sharps4590
Unless someone was still manufacturing the 88's after about 1900

Just about everybody - plus his dog and cat - made, wholesold and detailed Model [18]88 hunting rifles (and a few Wehrmannsgewehre) in various permutations *after* 1899. They continued to be popular and sell well.

It was only the Great War that sounded the death knell for them.

Carcano