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Scorch · February 16, 2011, 01:31 AM

You have a Mauser 98 action that has been customized at some point in its life. DWM was founded in 1896, uniting the remnants of the old Mauser Werke that Loewe bought and joined up with their ammunition business. DWM was absorbed by the Quandt Group in 1929 when Jewish businesses were denied government contracts.

MORETON is probably the name of a gunsmith who installed the barrel. It looks like it was struck repeatedly, and never well. The stock looks like a Bishop stock, and is typical of any number of aftermarket stocks available from the 1960s to the 1980s.

February 16, 2011, 01:31 AM	#2
Scorch Senior Member Join Date: February 13, 2006 Location: Washington state Posts: 15,248	You have a Mauser 98 action that has been customized at some point in its life. DWM was founded in 1896, uniting the remnants of the old Mauser Werke that Loewe bought and joined up with their ammunition business. DWM was absorbed by the Quandt Group in 1929 when Jewish businesses were denied government contracts. MORETON is probably the name of a gunsmith who installed the barrel. It looks like it was struck repeatedly, and never well. The stock looks like a Bishop stock, and is typical of any number of aftermarket stocks available from the 1960s to the 1980s. __________________ Never try to educate someone who resists knowledge at all costs. But what do I know? Summit Arms Services