was browsing a local gunshow today and started looking for Mosins and other old bruts of the past and found a nice K98 German Mauser. at first the guy wanted 250 or make an offer on it and i was like na and walked off to see what else i could find then about an hour and a half later he was up to 400 but would take 350 for it lol! i guess he had a lot of hits on it since i had left! well i kicked it around a little bit and found 2 yugo K98s well one was a captured i guess not sure about the other and another german K98 this guy wanted 469 for his and it yugo marks on it also!!
well anyways i went and pulled out 340$ cash and offered the first guy 275 for his he wouldnt go "that low" well meanwhile some one was trying to buy his Mauser K98 Training Rifle in .22 LR which was beautiful and in outstanding shape so i left them to haggle out the price. well by the time i came back some guy was giving him his name and phone number for the K98 to purchase later on in the week i guess and after he left we settled on 320. alot more than what i was looking to spend on one because i know you can get them fairly cheap from magazines etc but it is a nice gun
did some research on it and come to find it was manfc. in Mauser, Obendorf, Germany in 1936 and has alot of "pre war" features from what i have read the funniest thing is the front site hood/barrell dust cover i dont care to much for it and not sure if its original or not so im just going to leave it for now. It has a russian capture mark on the reciever which is just marked X and the floor plate you can tell has been etched with an etcher with its serial number. all the serial numbers match excpet the front barrell band and the rear sites. anyways i think im going to take it deer hunting this fall. looks like it will make a good target/hunting rifle (depending on the accuracy of the iron sites lol)
anyways pics (more to come)
(correct me if im wrong on any of this stuff still doing alot of the research on it.)
well anyways i went and pulled out 340$ cash and offered the first guy 275 for his he wouldnt go "that low" well meanwhile some one was trying to buy his Mauser K98 Training Rifle in .22 LR which was beautiful and in outstanding shape so i left them to haggle out the price. well by the time i came back some guy was giving him his name and phone number for the K98 to purchase later on in the week i guess and after he left we settled on 320. alot more than what i was looking to spend on one because i know you can get them fairly cheap from magazines etc but it is a nice gun
did some research on it and come to find it was manfc. in Mauser, Obendorf, Germany in 1936 and has alot of "pre war" features from what i have read the funniest thing is the front site hood/barrell dust cover i dont care to much for it and not sure if its original or not so im just going to leave it for now. It has a russian capture mark on the reciever which is just marked X and the floor plate you can tell has been etched with an etcher with its serial number. all the serial numbers match excpet the front barrell band and the rear sites. anyways i think im going to take it deer hunting this fall. looks like it will make a good target/hunting rifle (depending on the accuracy of the iron sites lol)
anyways pics (more to come)
(correct me if im wrong on any of this stuff still doing alot of the research on it.)