Replacing K98 bolts?

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Wondering how easy it is to get spare bolts for K98's and have them properly headspace? I'm looking for a bolt for a yugoslavian Kar 98 that is missing its bolt and really am unsure if most k98 style bolts in good condition should work, if yugo's are unique, or if this is going to be a big mess no matter what? I'm far more familiar with the enfield style of removeable bolt heads of varying lenght :p

This gun is not an M48. I know m48 bolts are not interchangeable with k98's however this is a Mod 98 produced in yugoslavia, hence the question.


Edit - I fully get that this is a stupid question, but I'm exhausted and logic isn't a strong point right now :p
 
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Hink yugos are intermediate length, so any k98 bolt won't do.

If it is full size k98, any bolt should fit. And odds are it will headspace ok. I've had 10 or so k98s, and I have swapped all the bolts around, and every one in every gun passed go/no go guages.
 
Hmm - I know the M48's and M24/47's are intermediates, but I was under the impression that the yugo k98's were basically just german guns produced under occupation by yugoslavians. There's relatively little info on the preduzece 44 Mod 98 guns.
 
If it is a Yugo k98k then it was German made and refurbished by the Yugo's post war. Any K98k bolt should work and as CanadianAR pointed out the vast majority should headspace properly. I would still check it of course but it should work.
 
A few years ago, I picked up three Itajuba made bolts for their version of the 98 Mauser. The Brazilians bought Mod 1908, mod 1924 and Mod 1935 standard size 98 rifles from Germany. Then, they converted some of them to 30-06 and 7,62 Nato. They also made a bunch of rifles in their Itajuba plant.

I used all of those bolts in a mixed batch of 98 receivers I had picked up over the years. All of the receivers had barrels with excellent bores, so I didn't swap out the barrels. One bbled receiver, was Chinese, one was Czeck and one was German. All had some sort of bubba done, like drilling and tapping, grinding off the charger bridge etc. All had rough exteriors and needed to be cleaned up before reblue and install into sporter stocks.

Those Brazillian made bolts fit just fine and all had headspace within factory specs.

I was surprised to say the least but I shouldn't have been. Every mismatched Mauser I've checked has been within spec, unless the lugs had been set back with high pressure reloads, or someone had done a bad job on a rebarrel.

IMHO, you should be OK to go.
 
Fwiw, Mauser bbls seat on a shoulder in the receiver, so unless the chamber is reamed out of spec or the built improperly made, you should be gtg.
 
H'ok - so since this gun isn't an M48, but a Mod 98 produced in yugoslavia, it should work? Apologies for asking again but the repeated references to the M48's are throwing me off a bit.
 
H Wally said:
H'ok - so since this gun isn't an M48, but a Mod 98 produced in yugoslavia, it should work? Apologies for asking again but the repeated references to the M48's are throwing me off a bit.
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Some people fail to understand that some Yugo Mausers are not built on an Intermediate length action. Yours is a M98, thus is a Standard length action and any M98 bolt will "fit".
 
Andy said:
Some people fail to understand that some Yugo Mausers are not built on an Intermediate length action. Yours is a M98, thus is a Standard length action and any M98 bolt will "fit".
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This.

You don't have a M48 so you don't have an intermediate length bolt. A standard length, K98k bolt will work in your Yugo capture K98k.
 
Preduzece 44 has nothing to do with german WW2 production, it is actually Factory 44 a Post War name. So it could be a rebuilt 98K, but it could also be an M48 .
 
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JP said:
Preduzece 44 has nothing to do with german WW2 production, it is actually Factory 44 a Post War name. So it could be a rebuilt 98K, but it could also be an M48 .
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That is unless the receiver is marked as shown, such as the OP indicated. http://www.marstar.ca/html/reflibrary/k98-M98.html

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Just when you think it's clear.......................
 
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