K98 expert, need your help!!!

jpboivin

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Hi guys , I bought this k98 5 days ago because I found it beautiful but I'm a newbie in the K98K world so now I don't know what I have in my hand.
Please help me!!!!
My 1st question is : what she worth?
My 2nd question is: is she rare ? ( collectible)
My 3rd question is: should i keep it?

It appear that the rifle is mismatch ,
- The receiver match with the all the trigger parts
- The bolt is totally mismatch
- The barrel match itself and in like new condition
- The stock match with handguard with WaA stamp
- And the 2 front band are matching with WaA stamp
I know that is a Chinese Mauser, so is it possible that the Chinese's make new rifle with mismatch parts?

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Bad restoration, using Nazi parts on a Chinese Chang-Kai-Chek Mauser. No collectors value at all.
 
x3 Chinese made Mauser standard model copy from the 1930s if I remember correctly. As others mentioned, she is sitting in German stock with Kar98k parts.

Nice stock cartouche on the right side of that butt stock though.

1. What is she worth ?

-Not as much as a RC Kar98k, probably the value of the parts themselves between $200 and $300 ??

2. Collector value ?

-Perhaps the action for a Chinese mauser collector, the Chinese had their own interesting civil wars in addition to fighting the Japanese in the mid to late 1930s.

3. Should I keep it ?

-If you like her, she fits your shoulder, and shoots well, than I would keep her.
 
It looks like a nice shooter. How's the bore? Too bad about the polished parts, probably had a nice patina started before they were taken to the wheel.

If you're not pressed for $$$ keep it. OR there is a german barreled action in the EE that might look more at home in that stock and you can sell yours. Re-blue the metal bits and away you go.

Bitser k98s are like 1970's muscle cars. They're worth exactly what someone else is willing to pay you for it =P
 
Yah, I know I'm an old fuddy-duddy, but that one IS pretty.

And it illustrates one very important point: the Mauser system was so brilliantly simple to copy, once it all had been worked out by that genius Paul Mauser, that the technology could be transferred anywhere and get good results.

REALLY hope she has a nice bore: a lifetime of fun on the range.

Mismatch.... but still a Nice Toy.
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Someone spent alot of time re-finishing this rifle. I believe the Stock Cartouche Eagle/WaA 135 is probably a repro done with a fake stamp purchased from Numrich. The rest of the stock is too sanded to have that crisp of a cartouche.
 
Um, ports have a subcontractor code(brg, I think) on the buttplate, and a small cross.
Bottom of butt has a Waa, "H", Waa at wrist, and port crest on left side of butt.
 
WaA 135 is a Mauser Obendorf code, but beware as Numrich sells a fake stock cartouche stamp with this code. Also small eagle 63
 
If it were a Portugese stock, it would have a big Portugese Crest stamped on the LHS of the stock.
 
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