Recent content by Mauserguy85

Yea, that’s fair imo. $185 for a fellow collector would be “nicer” lol. Not easy to find though. Nice set and can be used to restore a late war Mauser Oberndorf svw mb or similar.

IMO 99% done post-war in the US. This was fairly common practice to “sporterize” k98ks. That’s looks like a typical quality wood sporter stock common in the 50’s-60’s. If you’re asking directly was this German WW2 done? No it was not. In the second pic above, it looks like someone installed a...

The reason why you’re having trouble with the stock is because it’s been butchered or is even a aftermarket sporter stock. It’doesn’t even have the recoil lug. As said above, the rear sight sleeve and its components have been removed and another set hole drilled on the top of the barrel...

Welcome, but any reason you’re not creating your own post? No possibility of it being a legitimate variation. It was once a late Mauser Oberndorf. Barrel shortened and muzzle crowned. Stock is a shortened yugo (see the vertical serial on the left side of the buttstock). Bands are incorrect...

Yes, the 37 is definitely not part of that FP stamp. That was hand stamped separately and after that FP. Perhaps it’s some kind of identifying number done by the depot? Knowing how the Germans were with their record keeping and details, it wouldn’t surprise me that it must of coincided with some...

@RyanE, I went through pics of most of my late Sauer barrels on my k98k examples and I don’t see any of them with the large eagle 37 like @Gman06 has on the bottom of his example? It looks like a Sauer firing proof to me but the 37 is pretty big. Is that possibly consistent with late sauer...

You also have to consider a couple of things and I know this first hand with buying and selling (rare for me because I’m a hoarder) here. A lot of senior collectors will not admit pricing or deal publicly on wtb posts but instead deal via PM. I know quite a few well known members here who I...

Honestly, on the Byf44… I would think it would deserve to get a premium price bump due to the fact that it’s fully featured in a famous collector’s book. That earns it notoriety, bragging rights, validity, etc…. A mint Byf44 with untouched stock would probably have an asking price of...

No no no. Post war Czech k98k rifles are nothing like Russian capture k98ks which are complete mixmasters assembled from random used parts stripped from other rifles. The Soviets just assembled them for fit and function and they were not even fired for accuracy tests. Comparing that to Czech...

They are good enough. Just would like to see the top of the bolt root as well. That will tell a lot about the bolt. Also the firing proof is located on the back. You posted pictures of the front and bottom of the bolt root. In order to get a pic of the firing proof on the back of the root, you...

That’s what I was thinking… Mainz or the other depot with the smaller style FP (forgot the name). Reworks are really difficult to positively identify unless they are the XX, XI, etc… at least for me. However if this is fake, somebody knew what they are doing. That’s why I’m having so much...

To the left of the barrel serial

Gman06, can you get us a clear straight on pic of the firing proof on the barrel?

JPS was definitely producing spares like barrels even into 1944 from what I understand. As to this being a post-war creation. My thinking is that it does follow the depot rework trends. Every depot had their own “tweaks” or characteristics in how they rebuilt/repaired rifles. A humper/forger I...

That would make sense from the type of components replaced. Of course we can only speculate.