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Coyote Ugly said:
Making a mismatched part match by butchering and magically renumbering it in a postwar arsenal. ;)

That would be taking a K98 bolt that has a different number than the rifle it is going into, either grinding it down on the bolt root where the old number was and applying the new serial number with number dies (stamps) or electropencil.

Can also be done on any other part like a floor plate or trigger guard, band, and you may see the old number x'd out (###XX) or lined out (-------) with the new serial number applied beside the old number.

Applies to reworks, some East German, VOPO, Czech, RC...
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I get what the term "force matched" applies to just want people to realize the rifle is in no way matching. There are some really nice East German and Czech refurbs but they are in no way matching except that the barrel is sometimes original and matches the action. I wish there were more German K98's floating around Canada but they are really scarce. If you are on the American forums it seems that every U.S. serviceman in the E.T.O. must have brought home a K98k.
 
On rifles, such as the Mausers, "correctness" of matching numbered parts is important for the collector, but not necessarily for the functionality and safety of the piece.
I have a M/38 1942 dated Swedish Husqvarna with the receiver number ending in 425, yet the bolt body, bolt shroud, safety, and cocking piece are numbered 524. Headspace is good and functionality is as it should be. Matching, mis-matched or just a dyslexic number stamper?:confused:
 
A Roman standard is called a Roman standard. Rome ate the WORLD and slaughtered countless millons for public entertainment for half a millennium, something like 4,000,000 in ONE BUILDING. But they are okay.

A Napoleonic Eagle is called a Napoleonic Eagle and still is venerated for the heroism it represents. Napoleon kept the whole world in a state of war for nearly 25 years, ripping through Spain and Portugal, modern Germany and Austria, Egypt, neutral Switzerland, most of the rest of Central Europe, the Baltic countries, Poland, and Russia. He threw away two entire Navies, let an entire Army freeze to death.... and still he is venerated. How many people died for his ambitions? I don't think anyone has bothered to count. Pour la Gloire de la France: seems to excuse anything.

But an ownership stamp from the 1935 - 1945 period in Germany is called a "dirty bird". I don't understand this. Where is the balance? I remember going to the rifle range with a Kar98k and being called a Nazi by some ignorant yahoo. I bought the rifle from Alan Lever, who was a damned decent man and happened to be Jewish. But I became a "Nazi" for owning the thing. Nice rifle..... but it was built about the time I got my first diaper.

Communism likely killed 20 times as many people as did the Nazis, when you get right down to it. I regard the human wave attacks and the three-men-per-rifle attacks and the tank-riders as exercises in destroying your own manpower. Let's not even mention the heavily-armed NKVD guys BEHIND the attacking troops. Right now, everybody is buying Moisin-Nagants and SKSs.... and they are having fun with them, which is a lot nicer than slaughtering your neighbours with them. But that's what they were built for..... so do we refer to a Tula star as "Commie Crap" or "Sov sh*t" or something of that order? No. We call it a Tula factory marking or an Izhevsk or whatever. But we don't slag it, even though most of them were made for a grasping, murderous SOB who, with his wonderful successors (the Troika, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and the like) held the world in terror for 50 years. We keep the politics separated from the firearms.

So let's just TRY to sort out the politics from the firearms this time, too.
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