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Oil and headspace You have two problems: oil and barrel. Brownells has a whiting compound that you apply to wood to draw out oil. I have used it with great success. It is white and as it draws out oil it turns brown. It will dry out wood. The gap between the receiver and barrel is a...

Matiching partsb A all matched rifle is how it left the factory and , unless it has been fooled with, is generally safe to shoot. A mismatch rifle you do not know. People say they are shooters. That may or not be true. Is the headspace correct? Is the firing pin protrusion correct? Is the...

Firing pin Who ever replaced the tip: did not get it centered, used the wrong steel, or did not get the taper correct. I collect nambu’s and often their firing pins were clipped. When I went to shoot one I just drop in a working firing pin and when I put it away put the original pin back in...

Well That answers that. Do not think I will be buying that. Thanks to fourm members.

Tell me The person who has this rifle lives just down the street. It is a interesting rifle. The stock appears to be Birdseye maple with a varnish finish applied. So would some forum member tell me what is wrong. Is it a total modern made fake or a correct action in modern wood or what. I...

I know very little about 98 Mausers. I know that over a 100 million were made by many manufacturers over a long period of time. I do not know what the word humped means when applied to a rifle. Humped can be used as a noun or a verb to describe a raised bump. Nowhere does it mean fake. It...

I shot it with 20 rounds of ammo of unknown Middle East headstamps. It shot just fine as the lock up is like new.

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Attempt tp post pictures of my takedown

I think the only way you can make a interrupted thread woul be to fit a barrel, headspace it, index it, then mill out the area between the threads. The barrel would not be too hard but the receiver would take some skill.

This is a interesting picture the taktown lever appears upside dow and much larger then others.

I think you are right. I took a close look at the stock and it appears to be sanded and the numbers restamped. The stock is flatten and below the buttplate. Also the stock is broken out under the takedown plate. The fit of the trigger guard is not up to factory. All the evidence leads to a...

So here is where we are. The rifle appeared in some auction a few years back. Did the man who sold it to me buy it at that auction? Did he put it in the auction and it did not sell and he got it back? Did the auction house refuse to sell it because they thought it might be a fake? I took it...

GunKraut, thank you for the picture. Do any fourm members know anything about this. The straight bolt is different. I am learning more the the previous 20 years when all I knew was based on a false story

The pictures from RayonE just came up and I think he is right. It sounds like the old man told me what I wanted to hear. So we are making headway as this gun was sold by a aucton house. Can any body find out what it was described as and how much it sold for?

Why do people like hambone think just because something is found somebody is up to something? I never seen a folding stock 98 and I am not even close to being a expert on the 98. I just bought this from a WWII veteran. I bought it because I thought it was neat. I Am 80 years old and had a...

Thank you bruce98k. This is what I hoped a forum member could furnish. Pictures from a known real one. My gun was a battle field pick up and over the years two crude repairs were made to the takedown furnature. One forum member said I had my mind made up and did not want to see the facts...

These were all handmade and had a reputation of poor workmanship. They were never used by the paratroopers. This rifle went through the war with all the benefits of war time use. I have shot this with ball ammo and it worked just fine.

Takedown These rifles were hand made and had a reputation of poor workmanship they were never adapted by the paratroopers. This rifle went through the war and was abused along the way. I have shot it will ball ammo and it shoots just fine.

I have had this 42 BYF takedown 98 for years. I have been trying to figure if it is real or fake. I do not know how to post pictures which is what I need but it is EXACTLY like the one in the “The book on Mauser rifles”. The only difference is my rifle has only two proof marks on the right of...