I got the jackpot today. $300 for a border patrol standard modell k98.

>>33318075
Fuck you.

>>33318075
Good score chief. Not my thing personally but nice none the less. Is it all matching?

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Color me jealous.

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>>33318100
Receiver barrel and bolt match. Also what do these symbols mean?

shoot an illegal with it and make hans proud

>>33318122
>snapchat
just use your phone's camera, you do know that due to shit coding snapchat use their own shitty software to access the camera right? It's why everything taken with snapchat looks like 240p instead of HD

How smooth is the bolt? A friend of mine has a k98 and its nowhere near as smooth as my vz 24

>>33318154
Like butter

>>33318159
probably someone's initials

>>33318149
Lmao no, it's because they jew down the video quality so it saves shekels while still enabling normies to feel like they are video messaging

>>33318122
Those are pre-WW2 German commercial firing proof acceptance marks. This rifle was made and proofed for sale on the civilian market.

>>33318514
It's "Bundesgrenschutz"; the post-WW2 West German federal police/border patrol.

>>33318631
It looks like they crudely carved it by hand using a butter knife.

>>33318075
nice find OP.

I cant find my pix of the markings, but I have a post-ww1 austrian border guard SMLE

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>>33318764
heres the markings on someone else's

>>33318658
It was stamped in with a hot brand.

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Safety switch got chipped and filed down. Any way to replace this?

>>33318086
Fuck you, cunt. Let someone enjoy their rifle.

>>33318075
Nice!

>>33319091
That's not a chip; that's the ramp that allows it to slide in ahead of the cocking piece and take tension onto itself and off the sear.

>>33319153
Ohhhh I see. Is it supposed to be wobbly when set on fire?

>>33319214
>Is it supposed to be wobbly when set on fire?
Yes; there's no tension on it when it's in the fire position.

>>33318816
That was done on purpose op. The early mauser safetys had a habit of deforming, preventing the slot from lining up, rendering the safety useless unless you pull the cocking piece back.

Lots of the 93 actions have this modification. Its called a scalloped safety.


By all means you can switch it out, you'd just get to see what the armorer was trying to circumvent.

>>33319427
Meant for
>>33319091

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>>33319427
>>33319382
Thanks guys. I have a true gem in my hands, this thing is in excellent shape the bore is great and the receiver, bolt, and barrel serials all match. The only problem is the upper hand guard is wobbly. Any way to fix this?

>>33319477
Define wobbly. Upper handguards are typically loose as to not contact the barrel.

The contact point with the band is either worn down or was sanded if its excessive rattling

>>33319552
I can move it back and fourth a couple millimeters and side to side 1 or 2 mm

>>33319614
thats normal

Ok so this rifle is a civilian rifle made pre WW2 and after the war was converted to a border guard rifle for West gemany. What the hell did I stuble upon????

>>33319477
>Mauser brand Mauser
very nice op

>>33319989
This is a commercial military model made for anyone who wanted a Mauser short rifle; foreign/domestic civilian, police, or military. It was may have bought by one of the German paramilitary groups prior to WW2 (like the Waffen-SS), or perhaps it was requisitioned from right out of the Mauser warehouse on the outbreak of war. Regardless it fell into the great Nazi German military machine, and unlike so many of these rifles managed to stay in Germany after the war ended (perhaps it belonged to a German police department all along and never saw any real combat). In 1951 the western Allies organized a border security force (the Bundesgrenzschutz) to combat smuggling between West Germany and East Germany; they were organized and equipped as light infantry. This rifle was still around, and went into service with the BGS.

It is specifically the Standardmodell carbine, with the turned-down bolt handle and side-mounted sling. The Standardmodell rifle had a straight bolt handle and sling swivels on the bottom of the stock.

>>33318159
Bud's Gun Shop