Steve,
some 30 years ago in Zurich, Switzerland I bought a Mauser 98 action from a Ferlach-trained gunsmith. He had cleaned and polished it and installed a "spoon handle". I assume that back then your typical Austrian gunsmith still was raised with Mannlicher-Schönauer rifles and for him this was the way a proper bolt handle had to be. If he made the new handle himself or bought it somewhere, this is as hard to determine as it is of no importance. And of course this does not mean that all spoonhandles were installed by Austrians
Reminds me of the old biochemists advice: do not waste clean thinking on dirty enzymes.
Try working that bolt with the palm of your hand! No fingers needed, no problems with gloves.
fuhrmann
some 30 years ago in Zurich, Switzerland I bought a Mauser 98 action from a Ferlach-trained gunsmith. He had cleaned and polished it and installed a "spoon handle". I assume that back then your typical Austrian gunsmith still was raised with Mannlicher-Schönauer rifles and for him this was the way a proper bolt handle had to be. If he made the new handle himself or bought it somewhere, this is as hard to determine as it is of no importance. And of course this does not mean that all spoonhandles were installed by Austrians
Reminds me of the old biochemists advice: do not waste clean thinking on dirty enzymes.
Try working that bolt with the palm of your hand! No fingers needed, no problems with gloves.
fuhrmann
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