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Posted: 8/6/2006 10:26:48 PM EDT
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Hello all, I am a bit of a Noobe but I would appreciate a bit of help if you can. This was my grandfathers gun that he purchased in Germany after WW2. He had told me that it is a Mauser and that he had it bored to a 30.06. I love the gun but just want to find out any info so I can buy spare parts to keep on hand. It is a wonderful gun to shoot. It also has a scope mounted called a Supra, which seems to be decent. There are no dates on the gun, here is the serial number and they do all match. 39376 Made is Germany, there are a number of symbols on it and the number 1060 one of the symbols looks like a strange bird NAZI symbol? the other one looks like a strange acorn. Any help would be great, my grandfather died sept 2001 best man I have ever known a true American Hero. Thanks for taking the time to read this. Josh   
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Appears to definitely be a military Mauser 98 action. Notice the stripper clip guide and left thumb cut out to push the rounds all the way down. I wouldn't doubt your grandfather for German gunsmiths do excellent work sporterizing military guns. Spare parts can be had from Nurmich Arms. CD |
| Defintely a military Mauser'98, probably sporterised sometime after the war.At one time after WWII, one could buy surplus 98K's for cheap..$10-15 there were literally millions of them around and nobody cared about collecting them.Quite a few were sporterised, and a few good 'smiths made a good buck back then doing this as well. yours looks like whoever did the work did a good job, I'm suprised they did'nt mill off the stripper clip guide to mount the scope like they would now, I'm not sure if you could get a scope mount that goes over the stripper clip guide like that now or not. How does it shoot? Mausers are usually very robust firearms, and rarely break. Parts should be easy to find I'd at least get a spare extractor, firing pin, mainspring, and possibly a ejector, you just might be better off buying a complete surplus bolt for the parts.. (just make sure the bolt is for a '98 and not a small ring mauser or a M-48 like what's on the surplus market now). The M48 bolts are shorter by 1/4" so they won't interchange. you'll probably never need them but they would be nice to have anyway. Take a look in a copy of shotgun news you can usually find parts in there. The strange bird with the swatzika is a Waffenampt, a WWII German acceptance stamp, So, yours was probably a WWII gun. The front receiver ring looks like it's been scrubbed so the manfacturing code is gone, (scrubbing the receiver was also common when sporterising ) |
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Cool guys thanks for all the info. I will take the idea's and just buy a spare bolt to keep on hand. The gun shoots great, I use it hunting when I can, other than that it's just a safe queen prob not worth much but priceless to me. The scope mount is really cool the way the scope twists on. Again thanks for the info, you are all the best. |
Nice mauser!!! Looks alot like my Kar98! 'cept my stock has battle wounds. I bet yours looked like this one in the 40's. My Grandpa gave me mine as well. It was captured by a friend of his in france 1944. He flanked 3 nazi's and they surrendered, they all had Mausers, so he shipped them home and gave one to my grandpa and now its mine. Mine is still in 8mm Mauser. Its circa 1936.    |
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