Hello all,
I'm a new Karabiner 98K owner looking for information on my new rifle. Not long ago I decided to start collecting the rifles of WWII. I recently purchased a Karabiner 98K and a Type 99 Arisaka to go with my Winchester and Springfield Armory M1 Garands.
The K98K that I purchased is a numbers matching rifle with no import marks. From my research, the rifle was manufactured in 1940 by Mauser. That is the extent of what I've been able to discover on my own. The person that I bought the rifle from said that it is a Kriegsmarine rifle, but I don't know enough about the markings to determine whether it was issued to the Kriegsmarine or the Heer. What markings identify this rifle as being issued to the Kriegsmarine? I'm attaching a link to an imgur photo album with pics.
Thank you for your time and knowledge.
https://imgur.com/a/rkvsGwo
Here's a photo album of my Type 99 in case any of you are interested in it. It is also numbers matching, no import mark, and the mum is intact.
https://imgur.com/a/XSS8OmG
I'm a new Karabiner 98K owner looking for information on my new rifle. Not long ago I decided to start collecting the rifles of WWII. I recently purchased a Karabiner 98K and a Type 99 Arisaka to go with my Winchester and Springfield Armory M1 Garands.
The K98K that I purchased is a numbers matching rifle with no import marks. From my research, the rifle was manufactured in 1940 by Mauser. That is the extent of what I've been able to discover on my own. The person that I bought the rifle from said that it is a Kriegsmarine rifle, but I don't know enough about the markings to determine whether it was issued to the Kriegsmarine or the Heer. What markings identify this rifle as being issued to the Kriegsmarine? I'm attaching a link to an imgur photo album with pics.
Thank you for your time and knowledge.
https://imgur.com/a/rkvsGwo
Here's a photo album of my Type 99 in case any of you are interested in it. It is also numbers matching, no import mark, and the mum is intact.
https://imgur.com/a/XSS8OmG
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