Had a few guns arrive recently:
The Belgian Mauser 1889/16 carbine came after some hassles with the transfer. It's really nice, and as a bonus, it's one of the contract pieces that was made abroad after Liege fell to the Germans in 1914. This is one of the ones made in Birmingham by a factory set up by the Belgian government in exile, they also had contracts with WW Greener and Hopkins & Allen in the US.
I also got the Sniders - I'm alot less pleased with these, the guy basically committed fraud. He told me they were Canadian marked, and they weren't. they both had several broken or missing parts. The guy had a good feedback rating, but apparently he screwed a few people over on this batch.
I ended up taking a few small parts of the action of the rifle (it was completely mismatched anyways) to get the carbine working. So now for $1000 I have a carbine with a broken butt trap and a complete fucked rifle I can hopefully sell as parts without taking too much of a loss.
