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KAR 98K Rifle / Re: Mismatched K98 parts. Whats your opinion
« on: October 15, 2014, 09:08:07 AM »
I can only echo what has already been said here.
Returning a rifle to the original configuration probably won't give you any additional financial value, but the reward is a more personal one.
A few years ago I gave a home to a K98 that niggled me because it just didn't 'look or feel' like all the others, but all the serial numbers matched up.
The rifle was acquired having sat in a Russian arsenal for however many years, in preservation.
Researching it led us down an interesting path - it was a Model 30, one of the batch exported to Yugoslavia in 1935. It picked up stamps and other Yugoslav markings along the way but the remarkable thing given the propensity for Russian arsenals to separate bolts from the rifles and store then using the "put all the bolts in the bucket" methodology is that all the serial numbers stayed together, probably because the rifle was packed in cosmoline up until the day I started stripping and cleaning it.
The scary thing was that it had a recent proof testing stamp on it, yet the barrel was completely clogged with 50 year old preserving wax; so I got the rifle rechecked before I shot it - just in case!
Returning a rifle to the original configuration probably won't give you any additional financial value, but the reward is a more personal one.
A few years ago I gave a home to a K98 that niggled me because it just didn't 'look or feel' like all the others, but all the serial numbers matched up.
The rifle was acquired having sat in a Russian arsenal for however many years, in preservation.
Researching it led us down an interesting path - it was a Model 30, one of the batch exported to Yugoslavia in 1935. It picked up stamps and other Yugoslav markings along the way but the remarkable thing given the propensity for Russian arsenals to separate bolts from the rifles and store then using the "put all the bolts in the bucket" methodology is that all the serial numbers stayed together, probably because the rifle was packed in cosmoline up until the day I started stripping and cleaning it.
The scary thing was that it had a recent proof testing stamp on it, yet the barrel was completely clogged with 50 year old preserving wax; so I got the rifle rechecked before I shot it - just in case!