I have your bolt, do you have mine?

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Dad just gave me a GEW98 almost matching, except of course the bolt....

If your GEW98 needs a bolt marked 828, I have your bolt. ;)

If your bolt is marked 1265, you have my bolt!

Insane long shot, it's probably in the bottom of a filled in trench in France, but why not try eh? In either situation I would be happy to talk about a trade [or purchase as the case may be]

-thanks
-sean
 
CanadianAR said:
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Lets see the gew98!
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I guess I spend too much time b****ing about pic-less threads in EE to not post some ;)

here ya go!


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I have been pondering the feasibility of starting a thread like this for each of the commonly mismatched milsurps in canada- Enfields, mausers, etc. I have a 98K and a couple of No5's that are mismatched.

So, you could go to the thread, post serial numbers of what you have and what you need, and/or use the search function to bring up a number (rather than compiling a list). I recall this being successful for a bayonet match.
 
bgcameron said:
I have been pondering the feasibility of starting a thread like this for each of the commonly mismatched milsurps in canada- Enfields, mausers, etc. I have a 98K and a couple of No5's that are mismatched.

So, you could go to the thread, post serial numbers of what you have and what you need, and/or use the search function to bring up a number (rather than compiling a list). I recall this being successful for a bayonet match.
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Actually, I had been tinkering with the idea of creating a web application/database do do exactly that... started out with the thought that I needed to find the matching scabbards for some bayonets ... now mis-matched rifle parts? I dunno - it's a fair bit of work.. [to do it right that is ;) ]

-sean
 
That's a nice GEW 98! Congrats. It has a nice patina to it.

A data base/thread to match up serials would be great. Chances of matching up parts would be slim but a guy could always hope.
 
jbmauser said:
That's a nice GEW 98! Congrats. It has a nice patina to it.

A data base/thread to match up serials would be great. Chances of matching up parts would be slim but a guy could always hope.
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Thanks, there's only a little bit of active rust in the receiver that I should take care of but yes - I agree it does have a nice patina, gives it lots of character... :)

The database does present it's challenges, I've noticed a lot of people are somewhat secretive with their serials, [which I do kind of understand...] I guess there would have to be some kind of 'secret handshake' notify the person that a match has been found, but not who or where.... then let the 2 matching owners sort it out. We don't need an another gun registry now, do we... !
 
There is another active service such as this over at milsurps dot com. Check out the forum titled ANGEL'S MATCHMAKING SERVICE. They list MANY bolts looking for homes and many more being sought.
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Great Idea: should be more of these.... and something to search them ALL is very important.
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I am contemplating building a website that would automatically process parts matching. People would make an account with the part numbers they are looking for and the ones they have, and if there is a match, alert whoever is looking for them.

Just need to get off my lazy ass.
 
I was just looking at my 1917 m-96 and as far as matching numbers go there would be 420 different bolts that would make my rifle numbers matching up to that year and I don't know how many more after that. Those three numbers would repeat every 1000 rifles, would they not? Thus, finding a matching number bolt might not headspace correctly. BTW, my ser. # is 420### and it's only the last three numbers on the parts that match. That's my take on it unless someone can prove me wrong.

Walt
 
wjt said:
I was just looking at my 1917 m-96 and as far as matching numbers go there would be 420 different bolts that would make my rifle numbers matching up to that year and I don't know how many more after that. Those three numbers would repeat every 1000 rifles, would they not? Thus, finding a matching number bolt might not headspace correctly. BTW, my ser. # is 420### and it's only the last three numbers on the parts that match. That's my take on it unless someone can prove me wrong.

Walt
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I've been scratching my head on that one too, wondering if there is a definitive way to look at a bolt & say that it definitely comes from rifle X .... 11 different arsenals cranking these things out, all with their own serial numbers .... there has to be 100's of possibilities...

Although, some items [bayonets and later rifles etc.] do have the full serial on bolt & receiver, my Czech and Yugo Mausers for example, as were I believe the k98s.... [not 100% sure on that]
 
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