{"id":6912,"date":"2012-06-21T11:37:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T11:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/21\/book-review-german-gew-88-commission-rifle-by-paul-scarlata\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:35:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:35:28","slug":"book-review-german-gew-88-commission-rifle-by-paul-scarlata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/21\/book-review-german-gew-88-commission-rifle-by-paul-scarlata\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: German Gew. 88 &#8220;Commission&#8221; Rifle by Paul Scarlata"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sn0xUPR0cWQ?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I recently picked up a very nice looking Gewehr 88 from an online classified ad, and when it arrived I really didn&#8217;t know what I had (I&#8217;m not an expert on older German bolt actions by any stretch of the imagination). So, I poked through our reference library for a suitable looking work to explain where this rifle had been for the last 122 years (it is an 1890 dated Loewe receiver). Paul Scarlata&#8217;s book really did the trick &#8211; other than being able to read the Turkish rear sight gradations, I now know what pretty much every stamp on the gun means.Plus a good knowledge of the development and manufacturing history of the piece!<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a Gewehr 88 that you need to learn more about? Or do you want to educate yourself so you can tell exactly what you&#8217;re looking at next time you find one at a gun show? You should get a copy of the book yourself:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1931464308\/ref=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1931464308\/ref=<\/a>as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=forgoweapo-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1931464308<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently picked up a very nice looking Gewehr 88 from an online classified ad, and when it arrived I really didn&#8217;t know what I had (I&#8217;m not an expert on older German bolt actions by any stretch of the imagination). So, I poked through our reference library for a suitable looking work to explain&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/21\/book-review-german-gew-88-commission-rifle-by-paul-scarlata\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Review: German Gew. 88 &#8220;Commission&#8221; Rifle by Paul Scarlata<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7531,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912\/revisions\/7531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}