1941 P08 Mauser Found

[Steinar]

Amazing!
Just one note regarding the rust.. my grandfather wraped greased clothing around firearms, put them in boxes and dug them down about 0.5m into the grown around his home (where I live now) during the war. He did't have time to do that with all firearms, so he hang about half of them up in trees with the same greeased clothing around. Some 10-15 years later he digg out the one of the boxes in the ground, they where rusty and not usuable, so he left the rest of the boxes in the ground.
But the interessting thing is that those guns in the trees where still in good shape!

When he was alive, he used to remind me of this. He explained it with some kind of upward wind at the root of the tree. I sometimes work in the forrest, and I still use the root of big trees as storage of exuipment and small freshwater boats during the winter

I made some findings in Kirkenes btw. But not near as good shape as that Josef's Luger.
There is a LOT of remains from WW2 there. The solidiers of the military training camp there use one day every year to clean up the erea. But not many collectable items to find, mostly rusty helmets etc.