Shooting a Mauser K98k

[alvin]

It was test fired four rounds before it left factory. How do I know? The rifle comes with a target paper with four holes on it, that's its "birth certificate" (see picture, 100 meter A4-size target paper numbered to the rifle). Persians bought these rifles, and some were sold as surplus decades later in this unfired condition... I guess they're rich on oil (?) Guns, especially expensive guns, if went to poor countries, usually all used to half death, no exception. Every drop of juice was squeezed out. But Persia seems not belonging to that category.

I do have a few guns that I have not fired yet. Two types. One was like this, looks being unfired (not counting non-C&R). Another type was hard to find ones. A few were hard to come and they came simply because I was lucky, so they are exempted from my test firing. Most were middle ones, fired before, not necessarily being very cheap, but I cannot control my curiosity so I have test fired many C&R guns.