Mauser4me
Senior Member
So I picked up a nearly all-matching gew98m recently. I am swapping out the refinished (non-matching) stock, and also was thinking about the bolt.
Were the Gew 98m bolts usually blued when they were updated to '98m'? I received this rifle with a mismatching to rifle, but matching to self bolt (straight handle gew 98 bolt) that is blued. I have other in-the-white gew 98 bolts I could use. What is more correct for a gewehr 98m, a blued or in the white bolt? Wondering if anyone with alot of experience knows. Any online research I do is pretty much pointless as 98m bolts rarely match the receiver. Like all mausers the bolts get swapped around over the years so I can't tell what's correct. Basically, woud the germans have blued the bolts when they updated the gewehr 98's to '98m', or was it completely on a case-by-case basis and there's no real correct answer?
Thanks in advance!
Were the Gew 98m bolts usually blued when they were updated to '98m'? I received this rifle with a mismatching to rifle, but matching to self bolt (straight handle gew 98 bolt) that is blued. I have other in-the-white gew 98 bolts I could use. What is more correct for a gewehr 98m, a blued or in the white bolt? Wondering if anyone with alot of experience knows. Any online research I do is pretty much pointless as 98m bolts rarely match the receiver. Like all mausers the bolts get swapped around over the years so I can't tell what's correct. Basically, woud the germans have blued the bolts when they updated the gewehr 98's to '98m', or was it completely on a case-by-case basis and there's no real correct answer?
Thanks in advance!