Gew 98 sniper bolt? Markings ID

[Volhv]

Hopefully someone know something about this bolt. It looks to me like it started out as a straight gew98 bolt, and than it was bent and reproofed. The remnants of the original eagle proof above the (letter) crown inspection stamp is visible. After it was bent it looks like another fireproof eagle was stamped next to the inspectors mark.
The ball is cut and checked as a kar98 bolt would be, but instead of a gradual curve is has a sharp bend like a k98k bolt. Comparing it to a k98k bolt it has a sharper bend.

Am I on the right track? Or did Bubba make himself a kar98 bolt.

 

[GEM]

I don't know enough about snipers to comment about that possibility. It started out as a standard G98 bolt. But it looks to me like the bolt was cut and re-welded and it has the "feel" of a bolt from one of the post-WWI sporters made up from service rifles and spares. I am sure the sniper guys will chime in on this.

 

[Volhv]

Well, it's been a few days, and I suppose some stuff is just too oddball to get any responses.

Thanks GEM for the sole reply!

I'd say it obviously looks to have just been heated and bent because it still retains most of the original shape of the handle root. And, there is deformation where it stretched down, as well as a small belly where the material bunched up on the inside of the joint.
After that a new eagle proof was applied. This must mean it was done officially at an armourly prior to the Weimar period.
No realy way to tell when the bluing was applied, but it's pretty worn from use in the typical areas and brown in a lot of spots. It was super grimy when I got it.

Unless we can point to another one done in a similar way, we cant say with certainty, who why where or when.

 

[biggymu]

I can add that it was the custom for an armor bending the bolt to stamp his mark on the rear of the bolt at the bend. This has such a mark. Odd numbers on the front of the bend.
Perhaps a depot made a replacement bolt for a Kar98 from a Gew98 bolt?

 

[Volhv]

I see no flaws in that argument, biggymu.
Provides a reason for the checkering,
Arsenal rebuild is why it's blued,
What appears to be a 2nd serial number,

Thanks