bought a K98 Mauser today!

[xd45gaper]

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.)

 

[xd45gaper]

oh yeah anyone know what that round metal hole in the butt is for?

 

[Slater]

I think the round hole is to aid in dissasembly of the bolt.

 

[alamo]

It's called a stock disk. I've forgotten the exact purpose, but I do know it has nothing to do with the bolt disassembly.

 

[American By Blood]

How old's the pup?

S/He looks a little like my seven month old Pitbull mix, but the markings look Boston Terrier-ish. Correct?

Cute dog, nice rifle.

 

[mrmeval]

Mauser disassembly instructions

The hole in the stock is for disassembling and reassembling the bolt.

http://www.surplusrifle.com/mauser98gew/boltdisassembly/index.asp


Also:
http://www.oldguns.net/q&a12_99.htm

Anyway, the Germans abandoned the marking disc during WW1 and substituted a firing mechanism disassembly device. This consists of a sort of domed washer on each side of the stock with a hollow tube connecting them and flared to hold them in place. The bolt guts are easy to remove from the bolt body. After that it is much harder to compress the firing pin spring enough to remove the cocking piece and other parts. By sticking the tip of the firing pin in the hole in the stock it is much easier and the Soldaten is much less likely to (a) lose parts or (b) insert a firing pin into their thigh. Reassembly is easy too. Since the pattern 1914/Model 1917 rifles are Mauser types, they may also have benefited from some sort of disassembly disc. The Germans eliminated the disassembly disc towards the end of WW2 when they shifted to a "cup" type buttplate, and drilled a hole all the way through, called the "Durchbruch fur Schlagbolzen (zum Auseinandernehmen)." This was used for bolt disassembly and was cheaper and easier to make than the disc arrangement. Ludwig Olson's "Mauser Bolt Rifles" notes that the often repeated explanation of these also being used for inserting rods to lock rifles in racks or in shipping cases has not been substantiated. John Spangler

 

[BsChoy]

Bought my K98 (russian capture I think but all parts matched except the bolt) and will finally get to shoot it today after 7 months of procrastination...hopefully she stays in one piece.

 

[alamo]

Mauser disassembly instructions

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The hole in the stock is for disassembling and reassembling the bolt.

http://www.surplusrifle.com/mauser98...mbly/index.asp

I'm glad to stand corrected. I have a German 98K and followed the surplusrifle.com disassembly instructions for the 98K. The 98K bolt instructions don't show the stock disk being used unlike the Gew 98.


http://www.surplusrifle.com/shooting/mauserboltdisassembly/index.asp

 

[jd46561]

Bs Choy..."Hope she will stay in one piece"/// German craftmanship , fought in many wars, actions sportered every day. one of the strongest actions ever built. You have nothing to worry about (unless you hand load and dont know what your doing). Good shooting!

 

[xd45gaper]

american by blood, that is my female boston terrier she is about a year old i beleve. we have 2 right now a male and a female they are a trip!

 

[BsChoy]

Got her out today

185 grain core lokt over 43.0 grains of 4064...recoil is very tolerable but she barks like a cannon! Accuracy at only 50 yards extremely acceptable...I will bring her out to hunt this year.

 

[Tropical Z]

Bought my K98 (russian capture I think but all parts matched except the bolt) and will finally get to shoot it today after 7 months of procrastination...hopefully she stays in one piece.

Just put a small tree between you and her when you pull the trigger the first few times.That's the redneck way of checking headspace.Afterwards look for bulges in the spent cases.