Got My K98 At Last !

Great pic & great read Martin
My friend at work was close to buy one last week & was telling me that the Russian refurbish loads of the guns after the war & did not make a good job of it

 

That's true, I'm afraid. The Soviet refurbs were generally quite rough ( this applies to other weapons, such as Luger pistols, too ). OTOH, the Yugoslavian arsenals worked to much higher standards ; their 'blueing' in particular being very good.....

 

Very very nice! Hard to believe that thing was in the field at all!

 

My 'other' K98 was definitely 'in the field'......

 

Great picture Martin! A variant of the now and then pictures. Actually the other one could be restored. I have a friend who does this. He once found a LEBEL rifle in a well in a worse condition and now it looks great.

 

Nice rifle and pictures.

 

Nice! Got one myself!

i'll show it off to

I now got a K98k & a Luger!

German weapons, because i've others too (Belgian, Brittish..)

 

In my opinion thats destroying history... I really can't stand people who do this kind of stuff. The relic was thrown away 60 years ago... its old.. not new. The complete story of what a dugup relic could "tell" you is simply lost in this way.

@ Martin, nice K98, I think the bleuing is done after the war but still a nice one. I myself prefer to have a 100% matching one who is in the same condition as back than... cost a little bit more... but thats not a problem for me, I will pay good money for a 100% good item.

Regards,
Nick

 

In the UK these days, a BIG bit more ! It's now very difficult indeed to find really good late-war K98s ( I should have bought five years earlier ), so I'm happy to have my 'look-alike' even though as you quite rightly say, it's re-worked ( albeit very nicely ).

As for the relic, I agree - I've left it 'as found' and sold to me by a German dealer at the Beltring Fair in 2002. When I got it home, it still had a live round in the breech ( ) the propellant of which which I very carefully cleaned out - the bullet itself is still in there.....

 

HAHAHAHA!!:lol:

Quite a difference there!!