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A friend showed me a rifle today that has me confused. It is a K98 without much in the way of markings, and those that I can find are strange to me. It appears to be all matching, including the stock. The reciever is stamped with a 'T' in a circle, in at least two places. There is an 'HK' in a circle. There is what looks like a flying eagle. There are none of markings I am familiar with from WWII firearms. The stock has never had a disc, but otherwise looks to be standard K98. The bands, but plate, bayonete lug, and other small hardware are all chromed. The barrel and reciever are blued and show little wear and few handling marks. However, there are obvious machining marks and the trigger guard, floor plate and magazine follower are all sheet metal. Any ideas on what he has here?
 
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A friend showed me a rifle today that has me confused. It is a K98 without much in the way of markings, and those that I can find are strange to me. It appears to be all matching, including the stock. The reciever is stamped with a 'T' in a circle, in at least two places. There is an 'HK' in a circle. There is what looks like a flying eagle. There are none of markings I am familiar with from WWII firearms. The stock has never had a disc, but otherwise looks to be standard K98. The bands, but plate, bayonete lug, and other small hardware are all chromed. The barrel and reciever are blued and show little wear and few handling marks. However, there are obvious machining marks and the trigger guard, floor plate and magazine follower are all sheet metal. Any ideas on what he has here?
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might your "flying eagle" be a "flying condor"?
That would be Bolivia.
Only flying bird I've ever seen on a Mauser, but than I haven't seen a lot.
 
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Coyote, sorry, no pics. I had no camera when I was out his way.

Altaberg, certainly might be a condor.

Bryan14, the HK are capital letters, not handwritten. I will check the link, thank you.
 
It sounds like a post war build by the Czechs or East Germans using some wartime parts (kriegs stock, stamped metal parts). Is the 'flying eagle' on side of the reciever? It might be a wartime reciever.
 
I may have that flying eagle (or flying condor) wrong. I will need to go back and get some photos. I have now read that a couple of countries built post war 98's, and this may be one of them. But still have no explanation for the HK an T circled stamps.
 
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