![]() Any guns with only a few features missing were known as partial-Kriegsmodell guns. The floorplate would also be a simple, stamped affair with only two screws instead of the four to hold it and the screws in place like the earlier version. Wooden stocks that lacked the takedown disc, a bayonet mount, cleaning rod, and instead of the forward bands being held in place by a spring were simply mounted with wood screws became known as Kriegsmodell guns. ![]() The finishing on wooden stocks became less refined, the bluing turned into duller colors and finally a phosphate finish. By late 1944, there were corners being cut on K98’s to get them out the door and into the hands of the troops faster. As the war progressed, guns were being turned out of the factories faster and faster as the fighting was going badly for Germany. That means that not only was this a late issue gun, but it’s what’s known as a partial-Kriegsmodell rifle. The there was no hole drilled into the stock at all for a cleaning rod, or the small latch that holds it in place one the rod is seated. Still, the price was only four hundred dollars, and with a bore that was cleaner than most K98’s that I’ve seen it was worth the price.Īt first, I was going to buy a replacement stock for the rifle, but then I noticed something peculiar about it. With no import markings anywhere on the gun, that confirmed what it was, however, the piece that had been cut off was missing, lost forever and who knows where along with the forward bands and bayonet mount. ![]() The only trouble was, that the gun was what’s known as a duffel cut bring back, meaning that the stock had been cut so that when the rifle was taken apart, it would fit inside the duffel bag of a returning GI who wanted to bring home a souvenir. A close up of where the stock was cut.Ī few months ago, I happened on to a K98 in a local gun shop that was more the most part in very good condition, happened to be a numbers matching gun, and a later war variant at that. So, finding a nice K98 these days at an affordable price is not an easy task. Collectors over the last few years have been fawning over them, the prices continue to go up, especially for clean examples and then when you get into the rarer SS and sniper variants they can stream into the stratosphere. ( )- One of the most iconic guns out there is the Mauser 98, especially the Karabiner 98K, the main rifle of the German military throughout World War II. The Karabiner 98K as I found it, with the duffel cut stock when it was brought back as a souvenir.
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