Help! can anybody give me info on my Mauser and my mystery bayonet

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Alright, I have this great looking Mauser but it doesn't have very many markings on it, just a few stamps and a 4 digit serial number which doesn't help very much. I traded some useless stuff to a buddy at work to get this gun. I also have this mystery bayonet that has no markings on it at all. All i know is I picked it up a a trade show more than 10 years ago. If anybody has ever seen one of these blades or know what country my mauser was produced I'd be happy to hear. And no I haven't tried to fit the bayonet to the mauser, although I would like to try.

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The Mauser has the Czech oversized winter triggerguard on it so it was likely assembled postwar with a majority of leftover wartime parts. There is no marking on the top of the receiver like Dou or Swp? It could be a blank postwar receiver also. Any waffens on the rifle?
 
contact148 said:
bayo is ak for sure and looks to be polish or romainian you can buy them in canada for less then $30.00
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I am going to go with the bayonet being Hungarian. I used to have one in my collection and this one is a dead ringer for it. The Polish ones have a swirled orange bakelite handle and the attatchment point at the rear is metal, not plastic. The Romy ones usually look like crap, this one pictured seems to have decent workmanship.
 
The mauser has no other significant markings on the receiver. There are some very small numbers on the other side of the sight post, so small my camera couldn't focus on them.
The front site has a lion stamped on it, very hard to make out in the pic, but I'm sure you all have one.

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Thanks for the info on the bayonet, i think i payed 35 bucks for is 10 years ago or more. Good to know what it will fit on finally.
 
The lion is a Czech marking. Yep, looks like a Czech post war rifle assembled with wartime parts. Sometimes they used wartime receivers but yours might be a postwar receiver. The winter triggerguard is the giveaway.
 
K98?

I could be wrong but towards the end of WW2 the German rifles were produced as fast as possible the sloppy large ring machining gives that away.
Id say 1943-44.

By the way K98's also had in certain cases a winter triggerguard. Plus the butt stock has the appropiate K98 sling set up. Czech sight protector. Parts gun.

My 2 cents.
 
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steve1973 said:
The lion is a Czech marking. Yep, looks like a Czech post war rifle assembled with wartime parts. Sometimes they used wartime receivers but yours might be a postwar receiver. The winter triggerguard is the giveaway.
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I think Steve is right .. :cheers:

I'd say it's a Czech rebuild... :)

Regards,
Badger
 
I have a BYF44 with all matching numbers. It was never refurbed and came straight out of the crate wrapped in brown paper and tied with red ribbons.
It has the same sight protector.

I don't know when the use of those protectors was first started, but I thought I should throw that in.

I also have another matching BYF42 without the sight protector.

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bearhunter said:
I have a BYF44 with all matching numbers. It was never refurbed and came straight out of the crate wrapped in brown paper and tied with red ribbons.
It has the same sight protector.

I don't know when the use of those protectors was first started, but I thought I should throw that in.

I also have another matching BYF42 without the sight protector.

bearhunter
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It is most likely a post war Czech rebuild that was re-serial numbered to match, but without pics it's difficult to know. I would guess Czech re-build, only because as sail32 mentioned, the type of front sight protector used by them was the same as used on their vZ24's. Here's a pic of another Czech K98k post war rebuild.


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Do you have any pics so we can identify it for sure for you? :)

Regards,
Badger
 
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