gilldawg79
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New to the forum and Mauser 98’s. Familiar with the rifle and some of its history, but I am a total novice to these. My buddy has had a rifle laying around for years and the other day he gave it to me. He wanted it out of his way. It’s made it from one man shed to the other over the course of a few moves and this time he handed it to me.
It’s a 1907 Danzig manufacture Gew98. It’s a 4*** serial code with an “a” so (14***) in the year of 1907 I assume. The barrel I believe has been shortened, it’s missing the front sight post and rear sight base and rear sight/elevator. It’s been drilled and tapped, two holes in the front over the crest and one in the rear. Bore is decent, I’ve seen worse. Action is nice and smooth. The stock, I have no idea what it’s story is, but it’s a surplus stock, just not sure for what.
Here’s what I’d like to do with this thing. Unless I’m ignorant and don’t know what I have, then I’ll leave it alone, but I’d prefer to get all the hardware back on it that it’s missing, regardless of its current configuration and get it checked out and make a shooter out of it. I may reblue it in the style of the older G98’s, (raw receiver and bolt), just need some help procuring the parts I may need. I’ve been seeing some vz24 parts that may fit....
Thanks in advance and look forward to hearing from y’all.
It’s a 1907 Danzig manufacture Gew98. It’s a 4*** serial code with an “a” so (14***) in the year of 1907 I assume. The barrel I believe has been shortened, it’s missing the front sight post and rear sight base and rear sight/elevator. It’s been drilled and tapped, two holes in the front over the crest and one in the rear. Bore is decent, I’ve seen worse. Action is nice and smooth. The stock, I have no idea what it’s story is, but it’s a surplus stock, just not sure for what.
Here’s what I’d like to do with this thing. Unless I’m ignorant and don’t know what I have, then I’ll leave it alone, but I’d prefer to get all the hardware back on it that it’s missing, regardless of its current configuration and get it checked out and make a shooter out of it. I may reblue it in the style of the older G98’s, (raw receiver and bolt), just need some help procuring the parts I may need. I’ve been seeing some vz24 parts that may fit....
Thanks in advance and look forward to hearing from y’all.