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Posted: 5/30/2010 9:01:46 AM EDT
| Just picked up this Russian capture up for 150 bucks. Guy needed money. I've been on different sites until my head spins. I didn't know there were so many variants. Can anyone tell me what I've got? I see what I think is R Guns on the barrel, so I figure that is the importer. You can see the gun here: K 98 Click on a pic to make it bigger, then click on original at the top to blow that up. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. |
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Your k98 was built in factory Mauser AG Oberndorf in the town of Oberndorf Germany in 1940 . It is a Red laminate stock so you don't have to worry about the stock coming apart with water. The X marking on above the 42 code is how the russians marked there captured k98's, It is also why everything is blued. Germans left their bolts in the white, also why you don't have capture screws, cleaning rod, or a sight hood- they thought of them as extraneous uneeded parts and used them as scrap metal. The bolt is mismatched to the receiver and to itself, common practice once again for russians, they didn't care if the guns serials matched only that they worked. For 150 it is a very good deal, russian captures go for around 300 right now, hows the bore?
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| As of now, the bore looks good to me. Shiny, but it needs a good scrubbing to get the dust out of it. They guy I bought it off of said he had bought a sight hood to put on it, but can't find it now. So the Russians reblued the guns? I thought this sucker looked too good for a battle rifle. Still some cosmo in the chamber, trigger area and bolt. Safety is real hard to work. Two stage trigger is kinda weird. First stage is kinda hard, but the second stage is pretty crisp. I hope that's the cosmo in the bolt and trigger causing all that. I've been studying up on how to get this thing apart for a real cleaning. I need this like I need a hole in the head. But then again, I didn't need that Enfield Jungle carbine. That thing kicks pretty hard. Thanks for all the info. |
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As of now, the bore looks good to me. Shiny, but it needs a good scrubbing to get the dust out of it. They guy I bought it off of said he had bought a sight hood to put on it, but can't find it now. So the Russians reblued the guns? I thought this sucker looked too good for a battle rifle. Still some cosmo in the chamber, trigger area and bolt. Safety is real hard to work. Two stage trigger is kinda weird. First stage is kinda hard, but the second stage is pretty crisp. I hope that's the cosmo in the bolt and trigger causing all that. I've been studying up on how to get this thing apart for a real cleaning. I need this like I need a hole in the head. But then again, I didn't need that Enfield Jungle carbine. That thing kicks pretty hard. Thanks for all the info. Since your gun was made in 1940, the front sight is not grooved for a sight hood. The Russians took every k98 apart into it individual pieces and then reblued them. The fit wasn't always the best and this is likely the problem with your safety. BTW, the bolt was not originally in the white as was stated earlier. |
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Your k98 was built in factory Mauser AG Oberndorf in the town of Oberndorf Germany in 1940 . It is a Red laminate stock so you don't have to worry about the stock coming apart with water. The X marking on above the 42 code is how the russians marked there captured k98's, It is also why everything is blued. Germans left their bolts in the white, also why you don't have capture screws, cleaning rod, or a sight hood- they thought of them as extraneous uneeded parts and used them as scrap metal. The bolt is mismatched to the receiver and to itself, common practice once again for russians, they didn't care if the guns serials matched only that they worked. For 150 it is a very good deal, russian captures go for around 300 right now, hows the bore? Hope this helps. I read somewhere that these parts were removed to "de-mil" them so Russia could officially remove them from invantory as part of some arms reduction treaty? Maybe internet B.S. but a good story none the less. 
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Your k98 was built in factory Mauser AG Oberndorf in the town of Oberndorf Germany in 1940 . It is a Red laminate stock so you don't have to worry about the stock coming apart with water. The X marking on above the 42 code is how the russians marked there captured k98's, It is also why everything is blued. Germans left their bolts in the white, also why you don't have capture screws, cleaning rod, or a sight hood- they thought of them as extraneous uneeded parts and used them as scrap metal. The bolt is mismatched to the receiver and to itself, common practice once again for russians, they didn't care if the guns serials matched only that they worked. For 150 it is a very good deal, russian captures go for around 300 right now, hows the bore? Hope this helps. I read somewhere that these parts were removed to "de-mil" them so Russia could officially remove them from invantory as part of some arms reduction treaty? Maybe internet B.S. but a good story none the less.
If you look at period photographs from the Eastern Front you will notice the German soldiers themselves pulled a lot of that crap off the rifles. The sight hoods impeded vision when snap shooting, the cleaning rods were useless and there were plenty of tobacco can cleaning kits available. Another interesting observation is the lack of original slings which likely rotted away in the 60+ years of storage. |
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Your k98 was built in factory Mauser AG Oberndorf in the town of Oberndorf Germany in 1940 . It is a Red laminate stock so you don't have to worry about the stock coming apart with water. The X marking on above the 42 code is how the russians marked there captured k98's, It is also why everything is blued. Germans left their bolts in the white, also why you don't have capture screws, cleaning rod, or a sight hood- they thought of them as extraneous uneeded parts and used them as scrap metal. The bolt is mismatched to the receiver and to itself, common practice once again for russians, they didn't care if the guns serials matched only that they worked. For 150 it is a very good deal, russian captures go for around 300 right now, hows the bore? Hope this helps. I read somewhere that these parts were removed to "de-mil" them so Russia could officially remove them from invantory as part of some arms reduction treaty? Maybe internet B.S. but a good story none the less.
I have also heard that the Germans often took the sight hood off because snow would accumulate under the sight hood making it impossible to use the front sights. |
| Just another question. There are some spots on the stalk that looks like a build up of dirt. You can take your fingernail and scratch it off. What would be a good way of cleaning the stock without taking the finish off? Murphy's Oil Soap and one of those green scrunge pads? Or would that be too aggressive? |
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