What was everyone's very first k98k?

My first K98k was a Russian capture BNZ 44 that I bought in 2008 when I got out of high-school on my 18th birthday. It was the first long gun I bought. Shot alot of rounds out of that rifle and it is what really caused the spark for my K98k drive. Of course I always wanted one since I was kid though. Sold it years ago when I started upgrading my collection.
 
P1070288.jpgMine was a superb matching 1937 S/42 Laminate I swapped for 1/2 ton of oat seed [$100] in 1972.still have it obviously.Richard Law had it as the earliest known laminate [V suffix]at one stage.Thought I will buy some more,but it took 20 years to find an average one .My father served in Montys Eighth Army In North Africa,chassing Rommel up and down.They often over ran German positions,often at oasis and after checking for Booby trapped lugers etc lying around,they would often shoot off all the German ammo,through the German guns,up at 45 degrees at the Nazis last seen position.My father noted the quality of all these german weapons.He also said why do you collect Lugers,i had 3 surrendered by 11 am one day.
 
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Byf 44 ZF41 sniper with scope in 1978 at Springfield Mo show for a whole two fifty traded m1 carbine in on it so got it for one fifty regret selling it but got about four times I paid those were the days. timothy
 
I got a byf 43 when i was a kid that had been smoothbored to 410 shotgun and then had the barrel cut back to its original length by a drink blind bubba with a hacksaw before it was de activated but I didn't care because it was a nazi rifle and had lots of waffenampt stamps that looked cool on my bedroom wall.I still have it though it lives in the gun room now.
 
1937 S/42,

I used to play with it in our backyard, dressed in my fathers army uniform when I was 9 or 10 years old :laugh:

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bcd 41 RC
First milsup other than an SKS-D about 10 years prior. Started an addiction to K98's and milsup rifles.
 
RC 337 1940, still have it. Went to a gun show specifically looking for a 337 and found two there. Bought the one with a very nice MO stock that got very little Russian "treatment" other than the serial number. Wish I would have bought them both!
 
My first was a 1940 660 code that I bought many years ago for $65 with a bayonet and scabbard. Still have both.
 
1940 660 likely Romanian used. Matching except the bolt.

First matching German was a 1944 dou bringback (actually shipped back in pieces according to the family).

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Lots of interesting omissions. It appear nearly all of us dug up something unusual first off.
 
Sauer code 147, 1938 that my dad bought in the 1960s at Interarms "Ye Old Hunter" store in Alexandria, Va. All matching with Commonwealth capture markings. Still have it. It will be the last one I will part with.
 
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