Thank you Mr. Farmer! My own Gewehr is an Oberndorff with a 1918 date and was part of a Turkish contract. It has lots of lathe marks, the stock was unfinshed and still fat, as if it had just come off the rough-turning machine. The rifle was pretty obviously made in haste. I'm thinking it may have been made in the period between the armistice and the Treaty signing. There's a story there, I imagine. In any case the rifle seems to have spent most of its life in the armory, acquiring what some might call a "patina." I got it before this site wised me up about sanding and finishing stocks on a fine old milsurp. The rifle hits what you aim at and hits it hard.
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