K98 - 09/26 Gently Bubba'd

[tokguy]

Spent my break time in the last day & half putting better wood on a tired old Scrubbed Sportered K98.
Picked the Sporter in 8 x 57 up for 175 $, it came with a 48M Lyman peep. Double set triggers & a knife handle bolt...thing shoots dandy for having a 20.5" bbl. But the stock was split badly at the wrist and an especially large primer hole ( which made it seem like 'Bad primer flow'...it's not, verified it with another K98 bolt). It's showing a serious lack of love IMO
Enter a 09/26 Argentine stock...had to shorten it a touch. But South American parts don't garner much interest, despite the high quality of the guns.
Nothing ground breaking but now I have a Mannlicher style carbine in 8 x 57...which is cool in my world. Should be a touch brisk to shoot LOL

A little more to do (inletting for the Lyman 48 and mounting) then ship it off to my son to get the finish snazzed up.
Cheers
Tokguy

 

[Philthy1]

That's one cool, and weird looking gun. I love it! That trigger and butter knife must feel a bit extravagant on that rifle

 

[bearhunter]

Good job tokguy.

It takes a real gunnie to fully appreciate what you did there. Nice clean work as well.

 

[stsfld66]

Makes a guy want to stare. Cool project.

 

[tokguy]

Good job tokguy.

It takes a real gunnie to fully appreciate what you did there. Nice clean work as well.

Thanks Bearhunter. I struggle with successfully handling wood, perhaps this is that old guy patience thing finally arriving. I'll be wandering out after a coffee and a little surfing. Finish inleting the spot for the peep sight, maybe see about reloading a couple dozen rounds with the 8 x 63 components.
I like the cavalry style carbines, but don't want to mess up a real milsurp...this was serendipity at it's best. I'm going to push for a BLO finish...but my son paid for the wood, so he has a say in the deal. Sometimes folks other than milsurp use this shiny thing called 'Varnish'...not familiar with it...going to steer away from that.
The wood has been sanded, the buttplate is quite proud, the carbine wood is about 100 years now...but it didn't shrink that much.
I thought that this was a perfect way to get another run out of what is basically spare parts.
I've a US pattern sling of some sort that is going to get reproduced for this fella.
Its gonna have enough Panache that I think we'll name this one. Half Argentine and half Prussian... think a German / Spanish moniker will do. Fernando, Ferdinand, ( Pancho, lol) ... something along those lines.
And thanks for the input all.