I made a thread. Any insights you have are welcome. Any additional info I can provide, I will happily give to you.
What was everyone's very first k98k?
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I made a thread. Any insights you have are welcome. Any additional info I can provide, I will happily give to you.
Andre-Richard
Member
My 1st and still only 98K is this BCD 41, mismatched bolt but pristine barrel.
Stephan98k
aka 8x57IS
Nice, one of the last Berlin-Lübecker K98k's.
The stock is mismatched too, right? If not, the stock completion date code behind the buttplate would be very interesting!
I wish my bore was that nice damn. Mine is pretty badMy 1st and still only 98K is this BCD 41, mismatched bolt but pristine barrel.
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Sarge
Well-known member
I got my first WW 2 German firearm, a matching byf 44 K98k in the fall of 1953 to hunt deer with. Bought it from an uncle who had brought it back. I still have it hanging on the wall. Ser nr was 159 w/o a letter.
Strange how easily and quickly those thing multiply when kept in dark rooms.
Sarge
Strange how easily and quickly those thing multiply when kept in dark rooms.
Sarge
flynaked
Repo Field Gear Collector
Also nice bore pictures guys! You’re putting some “pro dealers” to shame with those, never an easy item to capture at least for me. Even if a lot of my more collectible rifles will never see trigger time by my hands I still love to check the bore, it’s always the icing on the cake to find a crispy bore like that, I don’t really know what it is, I think it’s kind of the “what if” thinking about how much a tack driver one might be. But honestly shooting one of mine is about all I have time for anyways, and often not even that! I need to go on that note!
Luft1
Senior Member
I was a Winchester collector in the 80s when a friend offered me a matching 147 K date in a trade. Spent a week researching everything I could find on Ks, then decided Ks were neater than Winchesters, and I was hooked. Sold all of the Winchesters and have been locked into Ks ever since, primarily Luft marked and used. Still wondering if that was a sane or un-sane move!
I was referring to my first K98k not yours. Meaning my 1940 660 was my first.
I would have quoted you if referring to you and I would have to by psychic to know what yours was lol.
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reich1900
Senior Member
Yes, I see your point, my bad. If yours is anything like mine you did well. Just the psychic in me too lol.
Unfortunately mine had proofs peened but not too bad. All other waffenampts are there and is all matching except bolt but bolt matches itself. They even left stock markings in place
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edritchey
Member
byf 41
Mine was my Dad's byf 41 I don't know a lot about it other than I took it to a local gunsmith to have it checked over to make sure it was safe to shoot because I was going to use it for deer hunting here in central PA and when I went back to pick it up he told me that it was in good condition and that his son was interested in buying it because he collected German WWII stuff I sold it to his son and bought a new rifle for deer hunting probably the worst choice I ever made I really wish I still had that rifle not because it was a German 8mm rifle but because it was my Dad's.
Mine was my Dad's byf 41 I don't know a lot about it other than I took it to a local gunsmith to have it checked over to make sure it was safe to shoot because I was going to use it for deer hunting here in central PA and when I went back to pick it up he told me that it was in good condition and that his son was interested in buying it because he collected German WWII stuff I sold it to his son and bought a new rifle for deer hunting probably the worst choice I ever made I really wish I still had that rifle not because it was a German 8mm rifle but because it was my Dad's.
widowmaker
Member
Almost matching (armorer floor plate) 1940 42
