K98 Bolt Shroud Question
- Thread starter SSGMac
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Thank you David, I'm going to now have to check my dou.s for this! Looks like the same die, font, etc. If the OP shroud is a dou., then that certainly indicates process/lot/inspection stamp for dou.
waffenmeister
Senior Member
It looks to be resurfaced and renumbered.
heavy_mech
RKI- Reasonably Knowledgable Individual
Agreed. I trying blowing it up large but it's not clear enough to see the leading edge detail. That's normally where the resurfacer gets it wrong IMO. From what I can see however it looks legit.
It is possible that the collar is resurfaced and the numbers added are fake. Could be that the humper dies just coincidently look like dou font. We will know if you take good pics of the numbers on the bolt stem, the rear of the striker, the safety. I took this pic with my iphone and it is good enough to tell the story. Your pics are not good and only show one part of a bolt. Is this bolt part off of an all matching rifle? Are you sure? We need pics like these, which again, were taken on an old iphone 5S:
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SSG, from my iPhone I believe the bolt is a pretty well done restamp with a known set of MO / MB set of dies which have been available for over a decade. The bolt collar may in fact be a dou, from that "27" stamp, but it's a polished and humped bolt collar. The work is to the higher end. These are my opinions and I give them regrettably based upon what I see.
heavy_mech
RKI- Reasonably Knowledgable Individual
I must also regrettably concur. I'm sure in hand you can see and feel where the metal removal begins on each side of that bolt collar. It's very easy to see this and the profile change from your new photos. That detail is virtually impossible to hide, despite the obviously higher quality fakery.
