What was your first 98k in your collection
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sheepdog
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This 1937 S 147 super mixmaster. Probably started it's journey as an RC but there's no X and not much Russian BBQ black paint. It also was sitting in an early Sauer walnut stock. The next year I found an almost identical 1937 S147 bring back just 9,000 numbers off. Went on to collecting Swedes after that, not as many mines to step on.
sheepdog
Potential Future Early War Armchair Internet Expe
This 1937 S 147 super mixmaster. Probably started it's journey as an RC but there's no X and not much Russian BBQ black paint. It also was sitting in an early Sauer walnut stock. The next year I found an almost identical 1937 S147 bring back just 9,000 numbers off. Went on to collecting Swedes after that, not as many mines to step on.
My range just reopened this week, going to go shoot it today.
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My range just reopened this week, going to go shoot it today.
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internet troll
Troll
1997.....
My buddy had just gotten his Curio and Relic and told me about these awesome German Mausers that SOG was selling for $80..
I paid him and a week later I received my first K98. Pinged birdies and a sewer pipe bore. I eventually replaced the barrel (rather crudely) and some years later sold it to my buddy who was just getting into the hobby.
My buddy had just gotten his Curio and Relic and told me about these awesome German Mausers that SOG was selling for $80..
I paid him and a week later I received my first K98. Pinged birdies and a sewer pipe bore. I eventually replaced the barrel (rather crudely) and some years later sold it to my buddy who was just getting into the hobby.
silent_jaguar
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Jakeman664
Junior Member
My first was the last of the yugo captures my grandfather kept (he turned the rest into hunting rifles). First I purchased myself was a matching action CE43 in a cut down original stock.
wolfgolf96
Senior Member
I gave my parents money to order me one from J&G sales about ten years ago. I was 14. $279 for a Russian Capture 147 1939. Shot 20+ inches high at 100 yards but was dead on money at 300. Sold it to buy a BNZ 44 Bolt and Stock M/M. I regret it. Still looking for a 147 1939 to replace it.
Intruder196
Senior Member
A large letter BNZ44. Non-import marked but it was mismatched. I no longer have that one.
Rrudo74901
Senior Member
1938 Mauser S 42 code all matching armorers replacement safety (unmarked)
Sexton
Member
First, along came a sporterized BCD43 bring back. Searching for the missing parts to return it to original, if not matching configuration was an education. About a year later, at another show I saw this BCD43, all matching, on a table. Our friend Wapruf2 was there, and I asked him his thoughts on it, as well as the seller. He stated the seller was a good guy and opined it was a good piece at a good price. I bought it and brought it over to him, where he exclaimed; "say, this one is better than I thought".
tsmgguy
Senior Member
A nice bolt mismatch dou 42 that I inherited when my grandmother passed. Her youngest son, my uncle, had taken it as a souvenir when the Germans surrendered the French Brittany port of St. Nazaire. He shipped the rifle home to my grandfather and it's been in the family since.
