Just picked up first my first K98

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Just showing off my new rifle.
Sorry the picture is kind of blurry, its a Russian capture from 38. Cant wait to shoot it. I plan on using pine sol to clean the stock shortly if you guys give me the go ahead.
 
where can a guy find a nice Russian capture k98 these days?
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It actually took some searching to find this one, seems like online gun dealers are running out of them...

Not sure on the Pine-Sol. I'd use Murphy's Oil Soap or something gentle at first
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Thanks, I'll hold off until I can go get some.

I realize these things are not known to be collectors, like a GI bringback but with my budget i'm making it one.
 
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I am befuddled because I thought I knew my history and dates. If that is a Russian capture of 38 it is strange because Nazi Germany didn't invade Poland until 1939. Russia and Germany never fought each other until June 1941.
 
The Germans were light years ahead of the allies when it came to cutting edge jets, rockets, and tanks. But for the life of me, I still can't understand how the Nazi army was still wedded to a bolt action rifle originally developed in 1898 when they launched their blitzkrieg in 1939.

The K98 is a great rifle, but even the US recognized the need to replace the Springfield 1903 with a semi-automatic rifle in the 1920's and early 1930's.
 
I think there were several factors

Germans thought infantry was suppose to support and protect the machine gun nest so rate of fire for infantry was not as important as range and accuracy? I guess I am saying they thought of an infantry man's rifle as targeting individual threats to the machine gunner which let those gazillion rpm go downstream.

Hitler was weird about rifles. He LOVED submachine guns but never grasped the value of an semi auto or full auto rifle. The army had to basically hide development of the stg44 from him. Once he futzed with one the light bulb supposedly came on and he approved of it.
 
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The Germans were light years ahead of the allies when it came to cutting edge jets, rockets, and tanks. But for the life of me, I still can't understand how the Nazi army was still wedded to a bolt action rifle originally developed in 1898 when they launched their blitzkrieg in 1939.

The K98 is a great rifle, but even the US recognized the need to replace the Springfield 1903 with a semi-automatic rifle in the 1920's and early 1930's.
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The American army wasn't all that receptive to semi-auto rifles. In fact they weren't all that happy about repeaters... early '03s had a single shot mode. The uproar over the semi-auto was resurrected in kind with the full auto and M16 (which had smaller bullets so the troops could waste more). Even today it wouldn't surprise me if some still long for the flint lock musket. All it takes is one four star general to make us incredibly progressive.
 
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