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heavy_mech said:
On a Czech rifle? Interesting. I'd love to know what that 'owl' marking is.
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Here are pictures of mine, when I said the markings are faint, I meant it. But they're definitely there. Naked eye picks them up better than the camera, but I tried.
That weird mark with the oak leaf and 9 and then WaA938 (is at the tip of my thumb(can seriously barely see a mark with the camera)
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So that's it then? It 'looks' like the stamp on the keeper is a simpler design of their logo without as much detail as the stamp used on the sling. At a minimum the size of the nine is scaled differently and I don't make out any oak leaf detail like in the sling version of the stamp.
 
heavy_mech said:
So that's it then? It 'looks' like the stamp on the keeper is a simpler design of their logo without as much detail as the stamp used on the sling. At a minimum the size of the nine is scaled differently and I don't make out any oak leaf detail like in the sling version of the stamp.
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Appears that would be the case. I'm not sure exactly what they were going for. '9' must have some sort of significance to the manufacturer.

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BSchiebs said:
Appears that would be the case. I'm not sure exactly what they were going for. '9' must have some sort of significance to the manufacturer.
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Family coat of arms? Ninth generation leather works? 9 on an oak leaf on a bear skin. 938 was the inspection team in Klagenfurt. Here's a bit better photo of the logo. 1942.jpg
 
My VERY first impression of this rifle was that it was way too early to have stamped bands, but I know little of the Czech built 98's.
 
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