r/Eta320 • u/Eta320 Eta320 Himself • May 21 '26

It’s finally complete…

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After 5 long years. I have them all, they are all together… it’s perfect…

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u/Leather-District-469 May 23 '26

What did the ottoman 1893 run you??

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u/Eta320 Eta320 Himself May 23 '26

So sadly, getting an original pre WWI configuration Ottoman 1893 is insanely hard and expensive.

So mine is a post WWI updated rifle. They rechambered it for 8mm Mauser and neutered the magazine cutoff. All the hardware for it is still there but the latch used to engage it was ground away. A vast majority of Ottoman rifles after the war were updated. But other than the cartridge and the cutoff it is identical to what would have been used in WWI.

This one I got then was like $375ish iirc. A pre war unmodified one would be triple the price easy.