98 ID help please

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how to properly classify this 98? Thanks in advance

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I am pretty sure that is a Spanish M44 Mauser made for the Spanish Air Force (which is what that crest on the receiver is). Caliber should be 7.92x57 (8mm Mauser) unless it was changed somewhere along the way.
 
I asked for help to identify the piece not to compare the numbers for an opinion if they're the same! I can usually handle that unless one's in Farsi.
 
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From my experience these seem to be more nicely made than the M43's. There is some info to suggest they are not even Spanish made like the M43's but maybe Polish in origin. I've seen several with German made parts on them, particularly the rear sight components.

Your's is a nice looking example. Too bad the bolt is a m/m but it's not the end of the world.
 
How would it be even possible? I mean for Poland to manufacture them - when, in 1945 and afterwards? Under Soviet liberation/occupation?
 
Nabs said:
Possibly scrubbed Polish mausers that found their way to Spain during the SCW ?
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Winner winner chicken dinner.

Many WZ 29s made there way into Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Post war many had there markings scrubbed and were re-manufactured into the newly standardized Spanish Mauser patterns.
 
Eaglelord17 said:
Winner winner chicken dinner.

Many WZ 29s made there way into Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Post war many had there markings scrubbed and were re-manufactured into the newly standardized Spanish Mauser patterns.
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There was a glut of surplus WW1 guns in Europe, and both sides did their damnedest to equip their burgeoning armies. The nationalists (the eventual losers) did not have significant arsenals to repair everything, although they tried hard. The royalists or Francoists (the eventual winners, if you can say that after a civil war) did control more of the infrastructure. So, if this is a scrubbed action, that was remanufactured into a common service pattern, it was probably used by the royalists.

Goofle Spanish Civil War guns for a much more complete story.
 
The M43 and m44 mausers are quite under rated in my opinion. Im unsure what fault you could find with them, especially the air force 44.
 
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