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Posted: 2/19/2008 6:34:06 PM EDT
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Recently my grandfather died and this was one of the guns he had a 1940 k98 rifle. it was obviously sporterized some things that i can see are they put sling swivels with a sling, sanded the stock around the grip, removed blueing from part of the bolt, modified saftey it so dosent work sanded some parts, filled in orginal sling hole, cut off front part of the sock, removed sight hood.also the barrel is very mint looks unfired all numbers are either a 3932, 32 or a nazir bird with 26 by it here are some pictures i took for some reson they sanded of part of the saftey on the bolt and now it doesnt work  flat butt plate with an A looking symbol  trigger houseing with a 3932 serial number and a nazi bird with  grinding on that piece for some reson  trigger group with 32 on it  random markings on oppisite side of the reciever  big 376 small 40 big D medium 0  big 376 small 40 big D medium 0  3932 with s under it on barrel with large nazi bird no number and 3 small birds with 26 and a circle wth 8 lines coming out of it  3932 wiht s under it and on large nazi bird and a p below it but the wood hides it  243 and 1940 main reiciver markings  internal magazine thing  foller with 32 and nazi bird and 26  bottom magazine thing has 3932 with nazi bird and 26 http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o111/arfreak223/AUT_0921.jpg makings under butt plate cant mak them out  inside stock a 3932S and a br  sportized stock  way back of the whole bolt 3932 with nazi bird and 26  whole bolt shows where they removed the blueing  |
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The receiver manufacturer code 243 is Mauser-Werke AG, Werk Borsigwalde, Berlin-Borsigwalde, Eichborndamm www.radix.net/~bbrown/codes_rifle.html The receiver is ground on the left side where the bolt handle smacks up against the receiver. The bolt handle has been altered by forging or welding to where there's now less clearance for the bent part so the receiver was modified somewhat. Not uncommon altogether. The "birds" are the German eagle. They liked eagles just like we Americans like eagles for symbols of strength and whatnot. The serial number is 3932 S. All the German K98k (and Lugers, etc) use a 4 digit sequence from 1 to 9,999 then going to the next alphabet letter and another 9,999 rifles. So there are A through Z series and in some cases like 1908 Brazilian Mausers there are double letter suffixs like Ff with one capital letter and one small case. Usually the first 9,999 didn't have a letter so it'd take 27 groups of 9,999 rifles before they went to Aa or Bb or Cc for the next bunch. Each manufacturer did this so there might be a dozen K98k with a serial number 3932 S. The safety looks to have been ground for scope clearance. It wasn't the best way to do it. There are aftermarket safety levers. Check www.brownells.com Its not a big deal to instal one. The reason the safety doesn't work is unrelated to the way it was ground for scope clearance... probably. It needs to be fixed if you consider using the rifle as rifles without functional safeties are big trouble. Its not all that hard to do if you study on the parts. As a K98k it has no value as its been way too modified. But as a 8x57 bambi slayer its as good as any Remchester. Dutch |
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