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by joe817
Sat Jul 23, 2016 8:31 pm
Forum: Rifles & Shotguns
Topic: So I picked up a new rifle.... And some questions
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Re: So I picked up a new rifle.... And some questions

I'm sure no expert on Mauser guns used during WWI or WWII, but that one pic of the full rifle looks like a Mauser Gewehr 98 (Not 98k) as it has a straight bolt. That's the rifle the Wehrmacht issued its troops as the main German battle rifle of WWI, since it does not have a turned down bolt. IIRC, all 98k's do have the turned down bolt with the cut out to accommodate the turned bolt. I believe the 98k was adopted for use in 1934 or 1935.

But you said it had a date code of 1945. Soooooo.....

Here is a link to Mauser 98k Proof Marks that may help you identify it. It has a lot of good stuff in it:

http://mauser98k.internetdsl.pl/gbkomen.html

Wikipedia has a pretty good rundown on the 98k:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karabiner_98k


Good luck on identifying it!

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