98K - Sporterized

smellie said:
The sights are designed to be bang-on when you are using MILSPEC ammo.

For the Kar98k this means the 7.92x57JsS loading: 196-grain FMJBT slug at about 2650 at the muzzle. This was the late-World-War-I ANTI-TANK loading. :eek:Very hot, BRUTAL at the buttplate. MOST of World War Two was fought with the SmE and SmK loadings: ferrous cores of about 178 grains, running at almost .30-06 velocities.... and the '06 was only shooting a 152. Nasty stuff to shoot. Be happy you don't have any!:runaway:

Be sure to keep that original stock, too, even if you do restore it. It is fitted to this rifle and it is an excellent sporting stock as-is.:D:D

Have fun!

Hope this helps.
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Thanks...:D Much Appreciated
 
Nice rifle. Those are commercial markings, I don't know if they are post war or late war. The book "Kriegsmodell" has a chapter on commercially marked WWII K98's, usually presented to VIP's etc. Some were done post war as there were many K98's lying around.

Try posting pics at www.k98kforum.com there are many experts there.
 
I did a little researching. The crest is the final proof, crown and "U" is an inspection proof the Suhl proofhouse in East Germany from 1950 to 1992.

Have not been able to find concrete information on the "DE" marking or the "1001" marking.

I did find the original "1" inspection code for the Gustloff (BCD) on the right side of the receiver. I suspect the rifle was re-barreled. The bolt has the "37" inspection stamp.

My Son and I are quite pumped at this little gem. :D
 
It will definitely be safe to shoot ammo through this rifle which copies the ORIGINAL performance figures for the military cartridge.

As modified in 1904, this means a 154-gain pointed bullet at 2880 ft/sec. They got this by using 48.4 grains of lake nitrocellulose powder and the pressure was 17.5 Imperial Long Tons per squre inch: 39,200 psi. NOT EVEN 40 thousand! Granted, that WAS with a 29-inch barrel, but flake powders tend not to be very progressive in their burning. They can't be: the shape of the powder grains militates against this.

The .30-'06 was introduced 2 years later, in 1906. It used the same casing, just stretched out a quarter of an inch in an effort to keep the pressures somewhere within the realm of sanity. It used a 150-grain bullet at 2700 ft/sec and had a pressure of approximately 50,000 psi. Later loadings of the .30-'06 upped this to a 152 at 2800 and a pressure max (service) of 52k.

A good part of the difference lies in the powder forms, respectively, but another reason for the difference is in the diameters of the bullets. The Mauser .323" slug has more base area for the pressure to work on, so starts faster and keeps pressures down.

You can safely run loads in your rifle of MILITARY .30-'06 power..... and that is nothing to sneeze at.

Factory ammo for the 8x57, in North America, is downloaded pitifully because everybody is afraid of it being used in one of the old 1888 rifles with the thin chamber which liked to lift out. You don't have this problem, friend.

Your rifle will flatten any Moose that is silly enough to walk in front of it, given that you are shooting 175s or 200s. Use 150 Hornadys and you have one damfine rifle for Bambi or Antelope..... and they bounce REAL fast!

Have fun!

Hope this helps.
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DE is a WWII barrel contractor code marking. Kreigsmodell has the codes listed and their associated factories. Sadly my book is 200+km away at the moment. That contractor was common on bcd rifles.
 
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