Dad brought a "treasure" home from his early morning garage sale mission last weekend and I'm trying to help him research what he has. Have any of you come accross a tubular magazine 98 sporter before? I know there were some post WWI 2-shot shotgun builds (Geha, Remo, Hard Hit Hard) but this one has a multi-shot magazine running the full length of the forearm under the barrel. The barrel is marked "Remo Cal. 44" with "Krupp" and "Stahl" markings and the chamber cast measures as a 44-40!? It has a pressed horn buttplate labeled Remo as well. He sent this poor quality picture and is working on sending some more showing the elevator/magazine mechanism. Can anyone shed some light? Did Remo use a surplus military action to build this sporter during the Treaty of Versailles for an American customer ("Cal. 44")? Current value? Thanks for your help.

no data.. but that's cool!

very cool & i would love to see some pictures of the magazine assembly

quote:

Originally posted by dirtyjim:
very cool & i would love to see some pictures of the magazine assembly

+1

Somebody gut an early 11mm mauser for the feed system??

quote:

Originally posted by mousegun1:
Somebody gut an early 11mm mauser for the feed system??

That's possible. Or, someone copied one.

I watched an old gunsmith friend of mine make and extended magazine sporter out of an 11mm Mauser a few years ago. It was amazing to see what he put together using mostly over-the-counter parts from Brownells.

I also wished I'd had the money to buy one of those 11mm Mausers before everyone snapped them all up...

quote:

"Screw a bunch of engineers. We common gunsmiths can show surprising insight and are probably wrong no more often than the engineers (see; collapsing buildings, falling cranes, exploding shuttles, etc. etc.) Regards, Bill L."

I guess Bill L must have turned away business from engineers.

You should have asked "The Fat Albert" first.
http://parallaxscurioandrelicf...yuku.com/topic/27781
Save the applause---send money.