Absolut
Senior Member
Usually I don't have much of passion for non-matching K98k rifles - for this one it was different. It was sold off by the farmers son since his father died and he did not have the same passion as his father who carefully had hidden the gun after WWII.
It is especially interesting not only that it comes with the clothing sling (yes, damaged - still an original!), but also the original owner has stored it very well hidden, but also cared on how it would survive there and therefore covered the whole gun thickly in grease from his tractor. The whole barrel is filled with it too, not only the action, and I really had considered leaving it that way since it is very interesting to have something like this.
Aside of this, the rifle being in the high q-block is around the swap from bnz 44 to bnz 45. So it would make it a rather early 1945 gun. In my personal guess it has had some damage or error which made them set the weapon aside, but in the end where every gun was needed it received a bolt which was at hand (and while not matching is in the same q-block and also original Steyr, so for sure it left the factory this way), a clothing sling, and then handed over to the Volkssturm.
Note the perfectly visible stock acceptance, plus something which looks like a hand carved "H" on the left side of the stock. The farmer son once needed some screws, so he took off the screw from the rear sight base and the two of the barrel bands. But these should be replaceable and I guess will be the only thing that I will do with this gun, get them back in there.
It is especially interesting not only that it comes with the clothing sling (yes, damaged - still an original!), but also the original owner has stored it very well hidden, but also cared on how it would survive there and therefore covered the whole gun thickly in grease from his tractor. The whole barrel is filled with it too, not only the action, and I really had considered leaving it that way since it is very interesting to have something like this.
Aside of this, the rifle being in the high q-block is around the swap from bnz 44 to bnz 45. So it would make it a rather early 1945 gun. In my personal guess it has had some damage or error which made them set the weapon aside, but in the end where every gun was needed it received a bolt which was at hand (and while not matching is in the same q-block and also original Steyr, so for sure it left the factory this way), a clothing sling, and then handed over to the Volkssturm.
Note the perfectly visible stock acceptance, plus something which looks like a hand carved "H" on the left side of the stock. The farmer son once needed some screws, so he took off the screw from the rear sight base and the two of the barrel bands. But these should be replaceable and I guess will be the only thing that I will do with this gun, get them back in there.
Attachments
-
bnz45_01.jpg198.1 KB · Views: 200
-
bnz45_02.jpg301.1 KB · Views: 174
-
bnz45_03.jpg323.3 KB · Views: 171
-
bnz45_04.jpg228.1 KB · Views: 182
-
bnz45_05.jpg205 KB · Views: 148
-
bnz45_06.jpg314.8 KB · Views: 173
-
bnz45_07.jpg204.7 KB · Views: 167
-
bnz45_08.jpg143.3 KB · Views: 146
-
bnz45_09.jpg298.1 KB · Views: 182
-
bnz45_10.jpg178.9 KB · Views: 145