I have decided to make one of the supporting characters in SON a sniper. This will necessitate putting a scope on a Mauser rifle. I have three options for this, these being an m98, an m48, and a m24/47.

For those of you who may not know this, the m98 bolt-action Mauser rifle was the primary battle rifle of the German army in both WW1 & WW2. Mausers also saw a lot of use post-ww2 in the Eastern-bloc countries.

I still have junk left over from RHINELAND, and I’ll be damned if I can’t get some use out of it.

This is normally an art department/production design area, but I usually find myself fiddling with stuff like this. I’m not a hunter, and I don’t consider myself a gun nut, but I gotta admit, I do like simple rifles.

Well, Civil War-era stuff and older is a little too simple for me, but old bolt-action military rifles are pretty cool, I think. It’s a simple mechanism that makes sense.

Movies are complex creatures that sometimes make little to no sense. 

On a semi-related note, what’s the best way to age an aluminum softball bat?