Help with German barrel

[rajko84]

I got this barrel but I am not sure what it was used for, so any help would be appreciated. Thank you
Regards RD

[Bern]

I'm not 100% certain, but the barrel appears to be for a Wehrmann Gewehr (service man's rifle), single shot target rifle. I believe the proof marks are of post 1950, Suhl, East German origin.
Regards
Bern

[rajko84]

I got my answer on gun boards

It's a target rifle barrel for a 98 Mauser type rifle, chambered for the 8.15x46mm Rimmed cartridge, much like the .32-40, and intended primarily for target shooting up to 200 meters. The proof marks are commercial and pre-WW2. If the barrel is ca. 29" long, it was probably from a Wehrmannsgewehr (reservist's rifle). Such rifles were built specifically for the rimmed cartridge, and were made as both repeaters and single-shots. They were/are very fine rifles, but many of them were re-barreled as custom varmint rifles for rimmed U.S. cartridges, which is probably how the barrel came to be separated from its original rifle.

[Bern]

Do you have an image or drawing of the pre WW2 proof marks?
Regards
Bern

[bodes]

Do you have an image or drawing of the pre WW2 proof marks?
Regards
Bern

These are the pre-WW2 commercial proof marks....Bodes

[rajko84]

I'm not 100% certain, but the barrel appears to be for a Wehrmann Gewehr (service man's rifle), single shot target rifle. I believe the proof marks are of post 1950, Suhl, East German origin.
Regards
Bern

East Germany took the same markings of imperial Germany after the war to mark their guns.