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Just bought a K98 and am in love. Hope to have pics up soon. I was wondering for those who have them as well, what/if any modifications have you done?
 
I have one that belonged to my grandfather. He had replaced the stock (I think he made it himself), shortened barrel I think, and changed out the sites. He used it as a deer rifle.

I've had it since he passed away over 25 years ago, and I've had it refinished and most recently had the bolt handle turned and mounted a scope.
 
I'm a history buff and wouldn't think of bubba-ing a K98. The most I have done is total disassemble, clean, and a few new coats of linseed oil on the stock. I bought a ratty old Turk that needed a lot of re-blue. No mods for me on a piece of history.
 
I have a Yugo-capture German Kar 98K that I ended up scoping. I did it right however, by using a repro LSR (long side rail) mount, and the rifle is a tack driver. I'm getting 2-inch groups at 100 yards with Yugoslavian M75 sniper ammo. Nothing bubba about it. I will post pics in my own Mauser thread once I have time to take some.
 
I figure since my grandfather brought it back, he had the right to do whatever he wanted to it. If it had been original when I got it, I would have left it that way.
 
sporters are a lot more interesting to me than military rifles so i'm very guilty of cutting them up. at one time & still to a point now i'll try to find previously sporterized rifles to use as a base for my projects but i'll only look for a certain action so long before i whack one in the head & gut it out. now i'll try to find a clean action for my projects. if the history buffs don't like that they should try harder to out bid me on gunbroker.
i've done just about everything short of building a takedown rifle & converting one to .22lr, those are planned & parts are being gathered.
most of my builds are done in the pre-war german & british style, i'm leaning more towards the british style rifles now but i've also done a couple of modern style builds.
here's a short list of some of the stuff i've done. reworked & shortened standard mauser rear sight to resemble the 1000 yard tangent sights used on pre-war mauser sporting rifles. built my own quarter ribs, front sight ramps & front sights. reworked & heavily reshaped mauser trigger guards. installed several sets of double set triggers, built my own double set triggers from parts kits & made my own kickoffs. installed & headspaced lots of barrels.
 
I have a small herd of Mausers roaming around the place but most have been rebuilt. Kept this one original and have a Turkish 98 on the way that will also be left unmolested.

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Here's one that got the sporter treatment.

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My bubbarized K98 deer rifle

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dirtyjim: "if the history buffs don't like that they should try harder to out bid me on gunbroker."

Sadly, there are more of you than there are of us. We can't save them all.
 
jaybr- That's actually a nice job of reworking the military stock.

In my own defense let me say that none of the Mausers I rebuilt were in good original condition. Most came as barreled actions with rusted out bores.
 
Nice job, SaxonPig and jaybr. I've always been in favor or preserving a piece of history, but those sporties make me want to sharpen my teeth.:evil:
 
Just being a Mauser 98 does not automatically make it a "piece of history". I build Mauser sporters as a hobby and typically use Colombian Mausers in 30.06. These rifles are not historical neither are the Yugo M48s. I get a lot of my actions from Gunbroker as stripped action/barrelled actions. History is not diminished by turning a sewer pipe into a hunting rifle.
 
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Just being a Mauser 98 does not automatically make it a "piece of history".
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Yeah, I used that term rather loosely. I guess I should have said their posts have opened my eyes to the potential of sporterizing.
 
jimmyraythomason: "I build Mauser sporters as a hobby and typically use Colombian Mausers in 30.06. These rifles are not historical neither are the Yugo M48s."

The Colombian Mausers served in several conflicts, and accompanied Colombian soldiers to the Sinai in 1956 as part of the U.N. Peacekeeping mission during the Suez crisis.

The Yugoslavian M48 Mausers served heroically in the Third Balkan War, particularly the Slovenian War of Independence in 1991, which I had the honor to observe and to report. Brave Slovene territorial forces and civilians seized arsenals and used M48 and other rifles to stand off the FRY guys (Federal Yugoslav army) at Llubljana on June 27, 1991.

"Llubljana! 27 June!"
 
to me the main problem with staring off with someone else's attempt at sporterizing or a rusted out corroded piece of junk as a base for my projects is that i spend as much money & more time getting the action back into usable shape than if i would have started out with a clean action to begin with. i've welded up & re-drilled enough off center scope mount holes that i would rather just do it myself so i know it will be done right. most of the WWII era mausers are safe from my hacksaw since i prefer open sight builds using oberndorf gew98's, dwm 1909's & gew98's, cg heanel gew98's, standard modell banner's, pruvian 1909's & 1903 turk high humps.
heck i'm even cutting up a brand new remington 799 mini mauser. i bet in 75 years some wacko remington collector will be cussin me for it
 
Thanks for the history "lesson" DoD. I guess that makes all SKS rifles Aks,M16s,Fals,et.al, historically significant as well since they meet that same criteria. Colombians and Yugo M48s are neither special nor collectable but I don't use complete rifles anyway so it is a moot point as far as my sporters are concerned.
 
jimmyraythomason: "Colombians and Yugo M48s are neither special nor collectable ..."

Some are. But heck, forty years ago all-matching original Oberndorf Mauser Kar98k rifles were sold out of wooden barrels for $20 and less. After all, it was just a beat up old German rifle. And Bubba had a field day "improving" them.

My M48 is pretty special to me, as it is just like some I saw in Slovenia in the summer of 1991. That's why I bought it a decade ago when I saw it in a gun store.
 
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