Help to identify a k98

[Alex_Zues]

I recently purchased a k98 kurz, military stock/sights, but non-matching.

Bolt,floorplate, and reciever match, barrel bands do not, barrel itself I don't know (haven't taken it out to check under barrel). Nothing on buttplate. On the reciever it's Mauser Obendorf 1945 (byf 45). Not a Kreigsmodel judging by the oval cooling holes on the bolt. I was told that it is not a Russian capture. How would one tell if it was? I ask because there's a funny little star stamped on the rear sling swivel.

Anyways, the stock looks to have been sanded. Though it was lightly done I can't seem to find any serial #s, though there is a strange series of 'SSS' in front of the floorplate. It doesn't feel to have been refinished. I know it loses some originality points due to the sanding, but what kind of oil/finish could I use to give it a bit of added protection? What did Jerry use?

I've got a few pictures taken on my cell phone camera. If others are needed, let me know.

I've done some google searching, but I'm interested to hear what the CGN dwellers know, as I usually hear the really obscure details in these threads that teach me more than a wikipedia page ever could.
Cheers, Al.

 

[Honk...Honk...Boom]

Yugo rework? The great thing about K98's are that after the war they were scattered everywhere from Iraq to Yugoslovia, Israel, etc. The SSS could be an arsenal that did the rework, there were some really obscure arsenals in Yugoslovia for instance. Start with that. I'll look into it to : )

 

[Desert_Fox]

Ralph Kleins personal K98???

SSS "Shoot, Shovel, Shut up!"

The stock is almost a standard early war hardwood K98 stock, but the bottom sling swivels probably make it a Post War refurb/reissue to any number of nations like was already stated... Yugo, Israeli, Czech, etc...

Could be French Post War issue as they used a star symbol sometimes, and they captured the Mauser Oberndorf factory at the end of the war (which had the byf code).. Though, the French usually changed the rear sling hole to use a bar so that French slings could be used...

 

[maple_leaf_eh]

Kurz or Karbiner? The former is a little short cartridge, the latter is a shorter rifle. There are 5 identifiers to definitively ID an individual German military Mauser.

The arsenal,
The year,
The serial number,
The left sidewall marking, and
The letter code.

 

[Alex_Zues]

I meant Kurz as in a Karabiner 98 Kurz, to distinguish it from the Karabiner 98A or B of WWI. Oh, but to get a hold of one of those...
Anyone have any ideas on wood finish?

 

[dgradinaru]

Whats with the extra sling swivels.

 

[Alex_Zues]

Whats with the extra sling swivels.

That's part of my confusion. As someone already pointed out, the French added thier own type to some, but it looked very different. I've seen some variations of Yugoslavian mausers with the same sort of sling, so I'm wondering if they're the culprits. Haven't yet figured out what the SSS is for.

 

[smellie]

Won't be Russian: there is no "S" in the Cyrillic alphabet; they use a "C" for that sound.

Yugo?
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[gaff]

when I looked at bearhunters Mauser sniper pictures, a few weeks ago, he had one of these stocks also. with the added sling swivel .I was told it was a French mod. years ago.

 

[Claven2]

Almost certainly French assembled and used. The sling swivel and byf45 code are VERY typical of French K98k's.

 

[granite]

late gun/early parts

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