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  • skywagon
    Member
    • Dec 2009
    • 62

    #1

    K98 help.

    These rifles are new to me and any info on them would be great.
    Thankshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/57147183@N02/sets/72157625722693618/
    gerry
    Sorry there are 3 posts below with 3 different rifles.
    Last edited by skywagon; 01-01-2011, 02:28.
  • skywagon
    Member
    • Dec 2009
    • 62

    #2
    rec. 27/1939 left side 4744/k right side 3 waa280 stamps botl 2922 upper band & floor plate 4744 no import marks

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    • skywagon
      Member
      • Dec 2009
      • 62

      #3
      rec. GESKO SLOVENSKA ZBROJOVKA,AS,BRNO 510/j bolt 510/j barrel KB floor plate and upper band stamped

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      • skywagon
        Member
        • Dec 2009
        • 62

        #4
        rec.s/42 1937 1092 right side WaA53? barrel HESE 1092 8*57IS 4 65 bolt electro pen 2048 floor plate 7523 no US import mark

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        • Beachbumbob
          Senior Member
          • Aug 2010
          • 192

          #5
          Manufacturer's code 27 = B. Geipel GmbH, Waffenfabrik Erma, Erfurt (replaced by ayf); alternatively Feinmechanische Werke, Erfurt (superseded by 'ax').

          Manufactured in 1939

          Bolt not matched to gun but matching to itself.

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          • Beachbumbob
            Senior Member
            • Aug 2010
            • 192

            #6
            Post WW2 rifle either remanufactured from battlefield pick ups OR newly manufactured using left over parts. Not enough information to discern which although the lack of German proofs on the barrel TENDS to indicate new manufacture. Take that with more than several grains of salt............

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            • tomhorn1913
              Junior Member
              • Jan 2011
              • 12

              #7
              That's a postwar rifle,

              Built by the Czechs @ Brno. Late war style stock, postwar large stamped trigger guard, Czech lion proofs. Receiver rings were frequently scrubbed of the German markings, but the barrel still bears the wartime dot marking (in the small shield stamp). dot was the late war code for the Brno plant. The serial number on the receiver ring is also postwar applied. Interestingly, these K98s are also found w/the original German codes still intact on the receiver rings, & original wartime SNs, but the Czech lion proof serves as evidence they are still postwar production. Logic kinda dictates that they were completed closer to the war's end, & as time went on, the Czechs became more concerned about removing Nazi markings.

              Best,
              Matt

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              • mike webb
                Senior Member
                • Aug 2009
                • 1735

                #8
                Also the Brno marking on the siderail was never present on Nazi produced K98k's. Many postwar rifles had WaA marked parts as at wars end there were thousands of rifles still in production lines and Nazi marked components still in the factory. The Czechs just kept assembling rifles. These are excellent shooters and an economical way for people to own a rifle identical to Nazi K98's made in the same factory, on the same machinery and by the same people who produced Nazi k-98's.

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