..............I had an 01FFL from 1984 to 2001. When the Turks hit the market @ $49 each/dealer I wanted nothing to do with them
A shooting buddy showed up at the range one Tuesday with one he'd bought the previous week for $79. He'd cleaned it up and danged if it wasn't rather nice looking.
So these are the Turks I ended up with.
TOP: Turked M1888. I think it's called a M88/35.
2ND: M38, but this one has an Imperial German action.
3RD: M38/46
BOTTOM: This is a M38 I reworked. I thought it would be nifty to have a 20" bbl version. I cut and re-crowned the bbl, altered the rear sight to carbine style, sectioned the stock and made a Mannlicher style nosecap.
LEFT: The shortened rear sight. Sorry for the poor photos. Camera at the time was a 1 Mpx and no closeup capabilities.
RIGHT: I figured the Turks wouldn't throw anything away so I altered the front barrel band to accept it on the side and moved the rear one up onto the side of the buttstock.
LEFT: A closer look of the nose cap I made
RIGHT: View of the right side of the 'creation'. Come to find out the Turkish Army actually had something like this and called it the Model 1905. There were actually a couple morons over on gunboards.com who alluded to the fact that I might have made it to pass off as a M1905
Let's see, the stock was sectioned under the front band, the rear sight base, elevation shoulders, AND the ladder had all been cut in half, and welded back together. The nose piece was fab'd up from pieces welded together, and the rear sling swivel was on the side of the buttstock. While I did a good job of it, if a collector was fooled he wouldn't be much of a collector!
Buckshot