Good evening,
So here's an interesting one. Griffin & Howe presently has a 30.06 Mauser that, although not marked Griffin & Howe, they assure me is a G&H piece. The folks at G&H are as always very gracious and they identify it as their work and note based upon its source (I assume whoever they purchased it from or have consigned it for) that it's one of theirs - they think it dates to the 60s.
Kind of an interesting piece, it looks very much like a sportorized 1950s era FN Columbian Mauser. It seesm it was probably made as a 30.06 (not converted) and actually made after ww2. I suspect its story is that when it was intially sportorized G&H made the stock and for whatever reason minimal metal work beyond that was performed in the context fo the sportorization. It is still wearnig what would have been its origional(but likely shortened) military stepped barrel. Beyond that it looks like they just removed the military gunsights. The stock is sort of G&H reflective - I am not sure I have seen many G&Hs without forend tips. The folks at G&H think it is not G&H marked because they did not do the metal work which kind of makes sense.
I think the gun is sort of fascinating due to its likely G&H stock and its origionality to what is likley a post WW2 mauser. I appreciate it for what it represents in the "spirit" of sportorization of military rifles. It's really just a good conditoin, barrel shortened, well stocked sportorized military mauser. It is still very much a military mauser - yet it is also a sporting rifle. To me it is really what a sportorized military rifle should be - it is still very much what it used to be.
Ok folks I need some help - G&H has quite a price on it and I could buy a regular used G&H for pretty similar money. If I could get G&H to give me a letter of authenticity and get the price down would this be worth pursuing? I'm thinking low to mid 3 thousand range - am I crazy? They have placed a pretty strong price on it, and although I know they are in business to make money they also have a good reputation to protect which keeps them from misrepresenting th/grossly overpricing things. I've bought from them in the past and they were more than fair and I trust them.
Here's the lsiting - thanks in advance!l
https://griffinhowe.com/product/griffin-howe-fn-mauser-30-06-316/
