K98K Front Band, Need Info re Removal

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Finally picked up an israeli Mauser with a mint bore! :rockOn:

I'm going to detail strip and clean her. This is not my first Mauser. I'm familiar with the rifle but this type I've not seen yet.
She's a late war 1945 dou Bystrica made K98 receiver but the stock is obviously not matching.

All mausers I have stripped at the front/rear band have had a once piece spring which retains the front and rear stock bands.
This one has a pin through stock config and only retains the rear band.

This front band has two pins. One on each side but the spring which holds the rear band on only goes rearwards to hold the rear band from slipping forward :confused: I've never seen this type on a Nazi Mauser stock leading me to believe it may be Czech/Swiss/IDF type stock perhaps?

So what the hell are the pin holes/pins on each side of the front band? How do I remove the front band? Is it a drift/cross pin that just goes right through the front band spring which just needs to be drifted through?

I have researched this and turned up nothing at all on the interwebs.
 
just drift with a smaller size punch, the front one out. the rear one will need to be pushed in to compress. does the fore stock have finger groves ?and 7.62 burned into the toe area ?
any pictures yet ?
 
Sounds like a VZ24 or VZ24 band. Use a tiny needle nose pliers in the holes, a correct sized spanner wrench, or what I do, use snap ring pliers and turn CCW to remove.

* EDIT *. I think I read it too fast... sound like an IDF Mauser stock, though the problem you describe is a new one to me.
 
gaff said:
just drift with a smaller size punch, the front one out. the rear one will need to be pushed in to compress. does the fore stock have finger groves ?and 7.62 burned into the toe area ?
any pictures yet ?
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Ys Sir that's the one.
I'm thinking IDF specific stock.

So it's a drift pin I just punch through then?
The rear band spring is simple.
 
YouTube helps for visual
Use a empty brass case or brass tap against the spring and tap off it's shockingly easy if done right..... next to impossible otherwise good luck.
 
I just don't want to try and drift the pin through and find out it's not a pin that goes through the front band but some kind of retaining spring that I have now dicked lol

The rear band spring is essentially like a Mosin Nagant style ie a pin that goes through the stock and a spring which only points rearwards to hold the rear band in place.
It is not a standard one piece spring that just sits in the channel of the stock and holds the front and rear at the same time. Never seen it on any mauser I've taken apart/owned.
Will post a pic.
 
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I'm going to give it a light tap or two and see if it just drifts or springs back.
There are no markings on the stock except some hebrew letters in a rectangle and the classic burned in 7.62 on the heel.
It looks like a beech wood IDF stock I guess they found it easier to just drill a hole through and drift in a pin.
 
It was indeed a drifter.
Not like standard though however Sir. K98 German rifles have a single piece spring that retains both the rear and front band. You have to depress the rear of the spring to slide the rear band forward then depress the front of the same spring to slide the front band forward. Same as on the Yugo Mausers and many others. I've not seen this type before, I've owned a few mausers in the past.

Interesting on this one once I took her apart. She's an "a" block 1945 dou receiver. So early 1945 last ditch production by the Krauts. The receiver was definitely out and about in the last ditches of the war. There is some heavy corrosion/pitting on the underside of it that was blasted, stopped and sealed when the Israeli's refurbed and re-barreled her.
The bore is literally like new.
Can't wait to shoot her! :rockOn:
 
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