The industrial revolution began 100 years before the Vetterli. I own one myself. I have a box of the original .41 caliber ammunition. The box of ammunition is apparently worth more than the gun, which is a shame, as the rifle has a walnut stock and is beautiful piece of weaponry.
I think the standards of collectability have less to do with the rifle and more to do with the collector. Many collectors collect ONLY K98s, because they secretly admire the 3rd Reich. Many collectors who collect only K98s also might collect only vet bring backs because they are the opposite and want to cherish ever US kill with a gun they know was a war trophy. Me personally, I like RC K98s because there is no dount that it has been used to extinguish the life of at least 1 worthless Communist. I dont care who pulled the trigger, I just love knowing that it was used to destroy Satans children.
Lol so you like that it was used against americans You call Americans satan but hitler was the one commanding deaths of millions of people for nothing other than their belief and heritage
Id pay a premium for a rifle thats been there and done that and possibly taken a life before I take an all numbers matching. That's where the history and value for me is at
I just did that an all og 1940 borsidwalde matching other than stock and but plate. Issued to the luftwaffe $2000 Everything is correct and in original condition
I've been lucky enough to have had almost a dozen of them in the last 10 years. At first I thought they were beater junk and didn't usually hang on to them to long but I shot every one of them and they were all bang on for accuracy. The condition always looked poor from the horrible shellac and black paint but when removed most stocks were well seasoned and actually pretty good. My biggest regret was selling all but one. The prices have really gone up too. I was paying $400-600, now when available they are $1300-1500 Canadian. Good video. I agree with you 100%.
I ordered some 11mm French ordnance revolver ammo from him today. He was very rude and abrasive on the phone, and just hung up on me when I said: "Thank you". Very strange interaction.
Never seen one but i like it alot. Awesome condition. I have gotten burned on internet ammo numerous times lol hope it doesnt happen to you but i hate buying it that way and the assholes who do that to hard working people will pay for it someday i hope.. but thanks for showing me that rifle must be one of your favorites except for the ammo thing.
I have had one of these Russian captured K98 with the markings all intact. Each part on my captured rifle has a different story to tell because they came from a different K98 that was there. They are definitely are not appreciated like they should be, but people are finding out that they do have history.
I agree because I have another refurb known as the Zastava M98 (Yugo - captured K98k) that has some force - matched parts. Not planning on getting rid of mine anytime soon!
Nice video; I too really enjoy the RC K98ks. But I think you missed a few of the points for all-matching K98ks. 1. German Mausers - especially in the early years - were hand-fitted. Yes, you can slap a total mix of parts back together and it will work; but you don't necessarily get the original level of quality that the original rifle had. 2. Because the Germans lost, detailed K98k production records are scant. And since so many variations of rifle parts were made with different features, the only real way to know what a factory was producing at any given time is by having surviving, all-matching examples to look at. 3. People don't complain about US rifles not matching because the all-matching, non-refurb'ed US rifles are almost impossible to find. Because we won, >99% of our rifles went on serving and were overhauled multiple times. The Germans never got a chance to overhaul most of their rifles. 4. A 1936 K98k rifle would have had a walnut, flat buttplate stock. Laminated stocks didn't come around until July 1937.
Overall it was worth it just to fire it. With that being said im shocked no one has been hurt by that guy and sued. If you watch my shooting video watch the first shot the amount of gas that blew back was ridiculous.
The load is just a little too light to obturate the brass. I’m sure whoever loaded it kept it mild for liability reasons. I just recently started shooting my Vetterli too. I handload for mine using 50-110 Winchester as parent brass. With a 300 grain cast lead bullet and 28 grains of h4198 I’m getting just over 1300 fps. With that load the brass obturates nicely and I get no detectable gas blow by.
I bought some of their .32 S&W black powder ammo several years back. Cartridges themselves were ok but each bullet was deformed and or had air pockets in the castings
Could also not be annealed properly, sounds like a perfect opportunity to get into reloading that would be a fun cartridge to start with nowdays with all the info at your fingertips
I see why it was doing it. Im going to shoot a video. The loads are very poor quality and the brass is irregular shaped. It goes bang but probably isnt safe for the shooter or the gun. Im just happy to have shot a gun most haven't seen and even less as have got to look down the sights and pull the trigger.
I’ve reloaded mine in center fire but I’ve never shot my two boxes of .41 Swiss rimfire. That stuff is like 5-11$ a shot. I bought stuff gads and it took months to get to me and some of the rounds didn’t work/where double charged. Nothing the can’t handle though.
Interesting. You found ammo, huh? We’ve stayed away from these since they are kinda out of our wheelhouse. But...enough of them are showing up maybe we should rack one? I’d like to see you fire it. Marky
Nothing wrong with a russian capture i have several (i did put them back to the way they were took time but that crap the russians put on them was horrible !! ) but your right my m1 nothing match's but it was made in may 1942 so what's the difference ? none !
I like the Russian captures. I have a P38 480 code Russian capture. Matching. I would say the difference between the USGI non matching and the non matchingmauser, is that you can get a matching Mauser a lot cheaper than a completely correct Garand or Carbine. A matching K98 can be bought for around $2000 or a little less. An original non rebuild carbine is worth a lot more.
I never bought into "correct" usgi guns. People spend years rounding up parts to make it correct and it jacks the value up but its STILL a total mixmaster. For me since its not original itll never be correct for me
@@redwhitebluebuckslayer6419 I've got a M1903A3 that was semi-Sporterized that I'm going to re militarize that is all matching except the stock(Unissued US GI stock replacement) and floorplate/trigger guard (Though not sure if it came with it originally though.) The Bolt the receiver and the barrel all match though.
The barrel nut erea is set by the barrel nut itself. The middle section is set by the barrel breech block and locking shouldermto set the headspace. The very badk piece is non critical and can be set by eye if you want. I really didnt use measurements at all so to speak
