Hal, I saw a
Kimber Tactical Ultra II at Gander Mountain a few days ago, $750 used.
I didn't mess with it much, but they didn't know what they had, and I'm pretty certain what it was. I'd have looked harder, but I don't want a .45.
It was like brand new, and about half price. I almost left with it just on price alone.
I might go back and look harder. Use it for the trade-in value.
There's a gazillion renditions of that Mauser of yours, brother. It's gonna be hard to pin it down. The serial number will be a big help to narrow it down cause they sold them to lots of countries and each model they did x number of guns and started with new serials, small runs.
If your serial is high enough, you can eliminate a lot of model runs.
I think it's an early one. WWI. It'd make sense it came back here.
Not all 9's have the 9 on them, either. And your's has the same grip as the 9, less the 9.