Recently purchased WW2 German k98 mauser rifle adopted by Israel re-barreled 7.62

[shaunman79]

I just bought this rifle from my friends dad, 1 more to the collection it looks like a old war horse! the metal has lost most of its blueing, I might take this one on as a project, these have quiete a bit of history from what I have been reading about them, I always found it weird that israel used nazi rifles to support their cause kind of like a final slap in hitlers face but it was more to do with cost than anything else cant beat a bolt action.

 

[jbmauser]

Nice Israeli! I've always found the history and irony of these interesting.

 

[shaunman79]

Update & Question

I just bought this rifle from my friends dad, 1 more to the collection it looks like a old war horse! the metal has lost most of its blueing, I might take this one on as a project, these have quiete a bit of history from what I have been reading about them, I always found it weird that israel used nazi rifles to support their cause kind of like a final slap in hitlers face but it was more to do with cost than anything else cant beat a bolt action.

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After dissasembly I found this marking on the trigger and also noticed that this rifle was possibly a rare variant? from what I have read that the navy parts were parkerized? please correct me if i am wrong, I do not see any clover stamps which would indicate navy service?, not sure what thread I found that mentioned it but his looks identical to this israeli model, I even found sand under the stock and in all the peices, middle eastern sand? here is a picture of the trigger stamp i found R over W? this thing has more stamps than the post office lol.

 

[hrvatski]

You have a nice rifle there. It's got a little more history than you think. On the left side rail just behind the receiver you have the initials G.B. In 1939/40 Sweden purchased 5000 K98's from Germany. The G.B stands for Capatin Gustaf Bjorkenstam who was the inspection officer at Carl Gustafs factory up until 1942. He accepted your rifle into Swedish service. Most of these were rechambered to take the 8x63 Swedish machine gun cartridge. They were called the M40. All the rifles carried the 1940 date on the receiver along with the three digit numeric codes 147,243 or 337.

Sweden sold the lot to the Israelis post WW2 and they were converted to 7.62 and pressed into service. I own a 147 1940 in the "b" block that was in Swedish service. Mine bears the acceptance S.S. which stands for Captain Sten Stenmo who followed Bjorkenstam as cheif inspector at CG. Pretty interesting rifles if you ask me.

Ski

 

[shaunman79]

You have a nice rifle there. It's got a little more history than you think. On the left side rail just behind the receiver you have the initials G.B. In 1939/40 Sweden purchased 5000 K98's from Germany. The G.B stands for Capatin Gustaf Bjorkenstam who was the inspection officer at Carl Gustafs factory up until 1942. He accepted your rifle into Swedish service. Most of these were rechambered to take the 8x63 Swedish machine gun cartridge. They were called the M40. All the rifles carried the 1940 date on the receiver along with the three digit numeric codes 147,243 or 337.

Sweden sold the lot to the Israelis post WW2 and they were converted to 7.62 and pressed into service. I own a 147 1940 in the "b" block that was in Swedish service. Mine bears the acceptance S.S. which stands for Captain Sten Stenmo who followed Bjorkenstam as cheif inspector at CG. Pretty interesting rifles if you ask me.

Ski

Excellent!, thanks for the info and reply Ski, I knew it has been through hell more than once just by the look of everything except for the bore is in perfect condition lands and grooves are tight and shiny! go figure?

 

[hrvatski]

I know that some of these went to Central America before being imported into the US. Mine shows some moderate external pitting in spots
so I figure it came from South of the border.

Ski