Dbuffington
Member
Hi Folks!
Long time lurker, first time caller.
Actually, I'be been hanging around here for awhile, mainly in the Small Bore section. And because of that, I jumped at the chance, a few weeks back, to buy an Erma K98 small bore conversion kit, and that required me to buy a K98:
But I'm not entirely sure exactly what I bought. Yes, I know the basics:
It appears to be Mauser made (byf).The stock is laminate. It definitely, if very carefully, was duffle cut. There are no import marks I can find. All the easily visible numbers match.
Someone did, however, carve a name into the stock:
From all of this, I conclude this is an original Mauser build, not a rebuild, Russian or otherwise. Most likely, it was a GI bring back gun. Agreed?
I should note that what you see is the result of nothing more than a basic cleaning. However, the bore was simply filthy with plain old dirt. It cleaned up well, although it was definitely shot:
Any thoughts would be welcome.
Thanks!
Dave
Long time lurker, first time caller.
Actually, I'be been hanging around here for awhile, mainly in the Small Bore section. And because of that, I jumped at the chance, a few weeks back, to buy an Erma K98 small bore conversion kit, and that required me to buy a K98:
But I'm not entirely sure exactly what I bought. Yes, I know the basics:
It appears to be Mauser made (byf).The stock is laminate. It definitely, if very carefully, was duffle cut. There are no import marks I can find. All the easily visible numbers match.
Someone did, however, carve a name into the stock:
From all of this, I conclude this is an original Mauser build, not a rebuild, Russian or otherwise. Most likely, it was a GI bring back gun. Agreed?
I should note that what you see is the result of nothing more than a basic cleaning. However, the bore was simply filthy with plain old dirt. It cleaned up well, although it was definitely shot:
Any thoughts would be welcome.
Thanks!
Dave
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