Rc K98 Stock Wood Used??

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ALL follow the link to pics of my RC K98, does anyone have a guess as to what type of mauser stock wood this is? It is not your average nice laminated triangular pattern which I really like. I just want to know if anyone has any ideas as to type of wood weather walnut, european beech etc..

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Walnut it is... Thanks guys, I guess I have one of the harder to find stock types. But I surely do like the nice pattern of a laminated blondie. Still in the market for one. What do you guys thinks is a better stock?
 
laminates are stronger and much more resistant to the elements. Walnut is much prettier. Take your pick......:)
 
I wouldn't say the laminates ar ALOT stronger, but they are sturdier stocks. Walnut K98 stocks look better, are less common, and lighter.
 
NO WAY DUDE! Can I SEE a pic of it!!!:runaway: Ya I thought a pic in the snow was appropriate. I call those pics Liberated K98's free to fight another day even in a harsh Russian Winter.

Your Opa was lucky, my wife has uncles that never came back and have no know grave site. WTF.:eek:
 
Well, Opa may have carried his Mauser back, but not to Canada! Many German graves were marked because they carried dog tags but of course not all. Many German POWs never came back from Russia either. Many stayed (and died) in captivity under harsh conditions until well after Stalin's death some 10 years later! Russian soldiers almost never got a marked grave.

Question for the collectors out there: am I correct that the cupped buttplate was supplied with the earlier rifles and that it was later changed to flat? I have to assume machined trigger guard and barrel bands too for the early models.

There's a RC I'm interested as picking up for a shooter and I want to try and get one with at least mostly correctly matching stock, buttplate, bands etc. My collector friend says buy a prewar action as the best, followed by 39-41 (before Russian war), finally quality slipping the most towards the end.

PS - is that rust, cosmoline or something else on your bolt? I would completely take the rifle down and clean the heck out of it. If you have the drunken Boris electropenciling, keep in touch. I think I'm going to try and remove it from an RC and reblue as necessary.
 
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It is actually the reverse of that. The early rifles had flat buttplates and then the later models had the cupped buttplate. The cupped buttplate was implemented to help cut down on damage to the rear of the buttstock. You are correct with the machined milled parts. Milled parts are early and stamped parts are late.
 
Originally, there was a period of a year or two where you will see laminate stocks with flat buttplates on factory German K98's when they were switching over. Also, several factories still had very limited use of walnut until the end of the war with the cupped buttplate. Generally though, walnut=flat buttplate and cupped=laminate stocks. Because of the way the stock is cut with a cupped buttplate, the flat plate and cupped are not interchangeable so the Russians stuck with whatever was originally done.
 
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