My first k98k.

[Trepang]

My first k98k. A 1941 byf Mauser Oberndorf. All numbers match EXCEPT bolt and front band, even the stock matches receiver serial number.
Trying to collect all the major allied and axis powers infantry rifles. Have the Garands, M1 Carbine, 99 Arisaka and just added this k98k. I did as much research as I could and at least I belive I got a good example of a WWII Wehrmacht rifle.

 

[Buster Brown]

That's a nice one for a first k98k. Alot nicer than my first k98k (well used romanian capture). Congratulations. Ones like that are getting harder to come by.

 

[herkybird72]

Congrats, it looks great for an 81yo rifle. It looks well proofed. How is the bore?

 

[Trepang]

Congrats, it looks great for an 81yo rifle. It looks well proofed. How is the bore?

Pretty good - no pitting and the rifling looks strong. Just found an original 1940 numbers matching bayonet and scabbard for it.

 

[mawkie]

Congrats on the find! Good luck on filling out the rest of your list. Were you able to find your Russian M91/30?

 

[noddaz]

Nice! I should have bought one of those 30 years ago.

 

[Trepang]

Congrats on the find! Good luck on filling out the rest of your list. Were you able to find your Russian M91/30?

Thanks. I think I have a 91/30 lined up.. I fella here on MDS offered me his but our schedules to meet up haven't quite worked out yet.

 

[herkybird72]

Pretty good - no pitting and the rifling looks strong. Just found an original 1940 numbers matching bayonet and scabbard for it.

Muy bueno. They’re getting hard to find at reasonable cost. Nice to find a serno matching bayonet from the same period.

 

[Trepang]

S84/98 III (K98k) 1940 E.u.F. Horster Bayonet with numbers matching scabbard and a 1940 frog. Blueing is in pretty good shape and it has never been sharpened. The grip screws are not correct but I have located an order a set of the correct screws (actually bolts and nuts)

 

[calicojack]

Very cool!!

 

[Sirex]

Wow, VERY cool!

 

[Dave501z]

Definitely really cool congratulations!

 

[Ngrovcam]

Those are truly great rifles.
German engineering.
And, the ones made before late-war slave labor started to degrade them, are just amazing.
IMHO, of course.

 

[WatTyler]

Unsharpened bayonet/matching serial scabbard/correct frog is getting to be something of a unicorn combination. Very rare in the wild. Congratulations.