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Interestingly enough, those turk 98's have some really nice wood, once you clean the dirt off.
Why are GEW 98 Rifles So Scarce?
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Not to my knowledge. The Kar98K was a new pattern but it's reasonable that the thrifty Wehrmact used existing Gew 98 marked receivers on hand initially to augment new production. Why toss a good reciever and use expensive resources to make all of the new ones? Convert existing patterns to the new standard. Earlier Kar98 were also so used. Happened in a few other armies at the time. Russia using 1891 receivers of various ages to build new 91/30s during the early 30s and even later is but one example.
i am so embarrased to say but my father bought me a israeili converted gew 98 in 308 and me being young and enthusiastis i cut the thing down and did a horrible attempt at sportorizing it, and soon after sold it what a stupid thing to have done
Gew 98's
Jcbruno you just did it to a converted model not to a pristene Gew 98.
Everyone has done it at one time or another so don't feel bad.
There were a large quantity of Gew 98's converted to shotguns and I have three of them in my rack. They are mentioned in Olsons book on Mausers.
I would imagine lots of Gew 98's were converted by many countries trying to equip their military with better guns. Like the Americans, British, and Russians, the Gremans sent many to other countries as "Foreign Aid".
I have a VG Peruvian 1909 which is the duplicate of the Gew 98. There are a few noticable differences to the Gew. The receiver is polished, bolt knob is pear shaped, and bolt releaseand and ejector housing extends up to the stripper clip guide.
Whats the best way to clean stocks and restore them? I don't use sand paper because it ruins a stock.
Jcbruno you just did it to a converted model not to a pristene Gew 98.
Everyone has done it at one time or another so don't feel bad.
There were a large quantity of Gew 98's converted to shotguns and I have three of them in my rack. They are mentioned in Olsons book on Mausers.
I would imagine lots of Gew 98's were converted by many countries trying to equip their military with better guns. Like the Americans, British, and Russians, the Gremans sent many to other countries as "Foreign Aid".
I have a VG Peruvian 1909 which is the duplicate of the Gew 98. There are a few noticable differences to the Gew. The receiver is polished, bolt knob is pear shaped, and bolt releaseand and ejector housing extends up to the stripper clip guide.
Whats the best way to clean stocks and restore them? I don't use sand paper because it ruins a stock.
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Just rub the wood with a rag soaked with linseed oil. The dirt is part of its history. The linseed oil soaked rag will probably be black and that will be the excess dirt coming off which is gentle and OK for the finish. It will provide a more uniform aged finish. The oil will also seal the wood and prevent it from drying out and cracking.
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A Mauser (or any other rifle) should never be sanded or steel wooled unless you want to really hurt the collector value $$$ and be called Bubba.
More stocks have been ruined by people not knowing what they are doing.
The best thing to use on a Mauser stock is either to do nothing or to use very sparingly Howards Feed n Wax.
Don't Clean it, don't mess or F$#% with it, if it's Original.
More stocks have been ruined by people not knowing what they are doing.
The best thing to use on a Mauser stock is either to do nothing or to use very sparingly Howards Feed n Wax.
Don't Clean it, don't mess or F$#% with it, if it's Original.
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I remember a few passing through a while ago...
Not sure if they sold, but the archive still shows them ...
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Message Found In Turk Gew 98
Here are pictures of the Message or note left under the handguard of a Gew 98. If someone can transelate it I would appreciate it. The Gew 98 with the tape on the cleaning rod is the gun I found the note under the handguard.
Here are pictures of the Message or note left under the handguard of a Gew 98. If someone can transelate it I would appreciate it. The Gew 98 with the tape on the cleaning rod is the gun I found the note under the handguard.
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I've seen probably 12 or so personally.
2 were Isreali 7.62 conversions of ww2 nazi conversions of ww1 G98's.
3 were "luftampt" K98k's build in the luftampt "e-block", though 2 of thsoe were RC's.
The remainder were standard K98k rifles converted from G98's - most had SS markings of one type or another on them. Nearly all thoses were sporting huge price tags at big gunshows down south.
I've seen more Kar98b's than K98k's converted from G98's though.
That note is in Turkish I think. Trabzon and the name on there were the clues. I tried to run some of the lines through online translators and get snippets about "remember" and "behind battery". The rest wont' translate, it's probably not spelled right or in a non-formal dialect perhaps or I'm typing the notes lines in without the proper spacing/misrecognizing words.
You need someone who can speak Turkish.
You need someone who can speak Turkish.
Using Webtrance, I translated from:
amari arkadasim cok dikkat et fujek pozuk kugan geri atmiyot ocagin batar hamdi cakmak bukarban kurtaldu allahda seni butufelde kurdarsin
and got:
My bitter arkadas heeds Cok Fujek pozuk kug sinks Geri atmiyot ocagin Traitor di cakmak bukarb was kurtal Allah da Its year is in the institution in butufel Rsin
amari arkadasim cok dikkat et fujek pozuk kugan geri atmiyot ocagin batar hamdi cakmak bukarban kurtaldu allahda seni butufelde kurdarsin
and got:
My bitter arkadas heeds Cok Fujek pozuk kug sinks Geri atmiyot ocagin Traitor di cakmak bukarb was kurtal Allah da Its year is in the institution in butufel Rsin
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