Phil I am not sure exactly what Martin paid for his fine rifle in US currentcy. I have a 98 karabiner and a Fallschirmtruppe short rifle. My shorty is well over 1200.00 US for the condition it is in. Everything original. My 98K is in need of some refurbishing as the stock is a bit tweaked so I have to do some straightening of it and snding to get it back in proper order. It is forunate that the old bands and reference marks are still in good condition. It's worth now as is would probably be in the range of 500.00 US and an excellent 98K can go from this upwards of 1000.00 plus ! depending on the model and year of manufacture.

Stefan yes I have witnessed a logged in jam and backfire in a side firemarm and it is very scary. Also had a jam in an AR 15 in the auto fire load, and fortuneatly I dropped the weapon to the right to clear it out as it would of kicked back into my forehead or my eyes.
for those of you not in the know the AR 15 was the predecessor of the still used AR 16 (M-16)except the 16 has the automatic firing sequence as standard. As I was firing a test piece on a secretive site there were very few folks, all of three there would of been able to haul off the site and rush me to a hospital. Very eeeerrrrrrrie indeed.
Jams are no fun and not worth any risk but they do happen. For side arms please watch your fingers or POP ! one lost little one !.......uk

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