Pics of my Kar98K, also found a rifle in a buddy's grandfathers basement.

Thanks for all the compliments, i've never shown my rifle on a website.

All the serial numbers match on my rifle, even the firing pin. All wood stamped with serial numbers, bolt, butt plate, magazine, trigger gaurd etc..etc.... Only one thing doesn't match is the serial number stamped on the barrel just forward of the large round section with the byf44.

Took me a while to figure out why in every picture i seen of a K98 it had the silver button in the stock where you put the bolt in to remove the firing pin, then i relized only late war models came without, i think that is really unique
 
"Value" is sometimes in the eyes of the buyer, or the seller, and sometimes in the eyes of the keeper, but not always in all three at once. I have rifles that have very little "value" dollar wise, but are valuable to me because of their history as it concerns me. I also have rifles that are worth some meaningful money, but aren't for sale.

The 98 featured in this thread, unless it is for sale, is likely quite valuable to the owner. Great rifle, good thread. Thanks for posting the pics!!
 
kjohn has hit upon a Universal Truth, one which separates the Collectors from the Dealers.

To a Dealer, everything has a price tag and there is a price tag on everything. Boring people who only use this forum to make money out of somebody else's hard work.

Collectors are more fun because they still have the excitement of true Students. There aren't enough of them.

MOST of us are partway between, leaning toward one category or the other.

I have a few very rare pieces and a whole bunch of junk (which I prefer to think of as "junque": high-class junk). These bits include such things as an unfired Martini-Henry, possibly the best Nepalese Snider in the country, a couple of unique prototypes and a super-rare Armaguerra 39.... but my absolute "keepers" are a Vetterli-Vitali-Mannlicher 1870/87/1915 (my first rifle) and a mixmaster SMLE MarkI*** Navy rifle with the conversion done incorrectly (my first restoration, inspired by the picture of the rear sight in Reynolds's book). Neither is worth a lot, but neither is for sale.

There is definitely something very "real" about a rifle which has "been there, done that, got the rebuild to prove it".

Have fun with your keeper. It's real.
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I'm no Mauser expert but I don't think Oberndorf serial numbered barrels to actions in '44. The East Germans rebarrelled some but if the numbers and letters run perpendicular to the stock line around the periphery of the barrel it is likely a barrel code denoting manufacturer and production data.
 
brunetp said:
Everything that we could see was all numbers matching. It's missing the end cap piece for the bolt. Is it a collectable rifle?
The stock actually looked very good, didn't seem like it had been touched. I think you are right about the 7.92X57. so it shoots the same ammo as my mauser but making sure it's the north american loads right?
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Doesn't seem to get the recognition I think it deserves, but then they can be had for cheap I guess...

I got my numbers-matching from a member here - slickest action of any of the bolt guns I own. If you haven't already, strip the stock off it and check for rust - There's almost always some ;)

I tried some 170gr Federal Power-Shok and liked the results (on steel anyways) Might replace my Izzy M38 as my favorite milsurp hunting rifle.
 
smellie said:
kjohn has hit upon a Universal Truth, one which separates the Collectors from the Dealers.

To a Dealer, everything has a price tag and there is a price tag on everything. Boring people who only use this forum to make money out of somebody else's hard work.

Collectors are more fun because they still have the excitement of true Students. There aren't enough of them.

MOST of us are partway between, leaning toward one category or the other.
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Most importantly though:

Always keep your current gun values written down in your will, a book or on a price tag left on the trigger guard in the event that you pass away.
Otherwise your wife or estate might sell a $5000 gun for $50 bucks,
and beware, there is the share of Hustlers trying to get it from you for $50 bucks even when you are still alive!
 
That is a fine piece. I would be proud to own that. Give it a few years and she'll go up in value! Most K98 Mausers on the market today are mismatched, beat-up junk. I'd take an East German refurb over a mismatch any day of the week. Thanks for sharing.
 
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I have no idea what morally-handicapped clown programmed this thing's automagical "change the spelling" function, but it seems okay on this board to tell someone STFU or to tell someone to go and fuq themself....... but you can NOT spell out a perfectly clean and clear Latin word such as "see you emm": with.

I'll say it again in baby-talk: there are very few to be found.
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lol I was trying to figure out what you were saying. *** poop ######.
 
Really weird thing is that all those terrible words that we aren't supposed to say are PROPER ENGLISH, including the names of various parts of the body, functions thereof.

What happened was that a bunch of well-educated Classical scholars about 250 years ago decided that the English words were "vulgar" (which is a Latin word meaning "used by the ordinary people") and that we all had to be "civilised" (which is a Latin word meaning "living in a city"). So they deliberately left all the ordinary words out of the dictionaries which were becoming popular to write.... and substituted the Latin words for exactly the same things and parts!!!!!!! The result today is that quite likely on a forum such as this you can't even prick yourself with a pin (let's check that: word meaning an injury from a sharp-pointed object such as a pin). You definitely can't have a #### (word sometimes used for a male chicken) on your flinter, and that's the only word for that part: flinters don't have hammers!

Same thing happened after the Norman Conquest: the names of the ANIMALS stayed English but the names of the MEATS became French. Dead cow became "beef", dead pig became "pork", dead sheep became "mutton", dead calf became "veal": each one of the high-class new words was the French word for the animal..... boeuf, porc, mouton, veau and so forth.

I think this is part of the reason that we love to hate each other. and, when the chips are down, we hate to love each other. Or something, anyway. But William the Bastard didn't do intercultural relations any good at all when he made French the official language of England!

Now, let's see.....
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A small chicken is still called a pullet: from 'poulet', French again.

I guess 'poisson' was just a little too close to 'poison' for some folks!

Coming up from The Rock, through Northern NB and into Quebec, stopped in a little 24-hour coffee shop, had 'grape pie' one night: tarte au raisin. Folks running the place had English that was even worse than my (terrible) French, menu/menu/carte was almost unreadable because the languages were confused pretty badly, but I had lunch and they got paid, so it all worked out fine in the end. As long as people try, we'll all get along.


Ever had a Grosser Mac? MacDonald's, about 300 yards from the Dom des Drei Heilige Konigen in Koln. Tastes just like a Big Mac, costs almost 3 times as much!
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smellie said:
A small chicken is still called a pullet: from 'poulet', French again.

I guess 'poisson' was just a little too close to 'poison' for some folks!

Coming up from The Rock, through Northern NB and into Quebec, stopped in a little 24-hour coffee shop, had 'grape pie' one night: tarte au raisin. Folks running the place had English that was even worse than my (terrible) French, menu/menu/carte was almost unreadable because the languages were confused pretty badly, but I had lunch and they got paid, so it all worked out fine in the end. As long as people try, we'll all get along.


Ever had a Grosser Mac? MacDonald's, about 300 yards from the Dom des Drei Heilige Konigen in Koln. Tastes just like a Big Mac, costs almost 3 times as much!
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I know what you mean..

I couldn't believe it after I had ordered a Big Mac Combo in Köln as well. I gasped when she asked for close to 10 Euros!! 10 years ago....

A Gross Mac for a Gross Deutschland! ;)
 
"Ever had a Grosser Mac? MacDonald's, about 300 yards from the Dom des Drei Heilige Konigen in Koln. Tastes just like a Big Mac, costs almost 3 times as much!"

YES & it tasted like sh!t there too. I would not have ate it if I had no been drinking in the Turk section the night before.....
By the way still a very nice example of a K98.
 
I'm still confused about what part of the chicken the "fingers" and "nuggets" come from.;) Being an old farm boy I used to have to dig under the old hens for eggs, something I never liked doing. Never found any "fingers" or "nuggets", but did learn what "peckish" meant.:p Then there's buffalo "wings", another of modern society's great nutritional enigmas.

With all of the great food in Germany, I could never understand why anyone would go into a McDildoes over there.:eek: Maybe just curiosity.
 
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