This is a 1902 Gewehr 98 Mauser made by Danzig that was used by the Polish military after WW1 and then ended up in the German military and was converted to a K98k.
I recently just picked up a nice find like yours, I picked up a gew98 transitional. It's a full length GEW98 1918 but has the S42 code like yours. Mine is all matching as well, the owner I don't think knew what he had and I ended up paying $225. They are very cool pieces of history, thank you for sharing.
I have a 1915 Danzig gew98 but mine retained the original walnut stock with imperial markings but remilled to k98 specs and bottom sling mount removed. Same setup, looks and feels like a k98 but is not. Fastest way to tell them apart is the sling mound on the trigger guard from the ww1 slings.
I have a gewher 98 receiver kar 98 made at dwm in 1915 it has s/42g and waA63 on the sights and stock+ bands as well as the barrel. As for the trigger guard it is still gewher 98 and the bolt is still the imperial bolt but has been bent down. The stock has a flat buttplate and not sight hood.
I also have a Franken-Mauser . Its a 1917 Spandau Gewehr 98 . With the overall length of just less than 43 inches and a barrel length of just less than 24 inches . It has the tangent rear sight with a turned down bolt handle . Other markings on the barrel are S/42G , K63S , 7.9 as well as 8 MM .The trigger guard has a hole for the sling. It has a stock that has been sporterized (cut down between the barrel and rear sight) but I believe its the original stock since it has the lower swivel sling attachment . Also where the take down gourmet was it has been plugged with wood as well as where the cleaning rod would of been . I would like to put a k98 stock on the gun like yours to add more originality to it . I inherited this gun so I don't have much history of it . Any insight by you would be greatly appreciated . Thank you for your insightful video .
I just picked up one at a little gun shop! But they cut the stock down so for 200 bucks I figured I would try and bring it back to life, so I get it home and somthing just didn't seem right! So I done a bunch of research and measuring, found out all measurements exactly fit k98k barrel sight post, and also having k98k sight with bolt and all, I found a beauty of a stock on ebay with everything for 399! Do you think it would be worth buying the stock and returning it back to the original..well kinda original configuration? By the way thanks for the video it really helped out!!! Beautiful gun!!
A buddy of mine has a 1915 Gew 98 OBERNDORF barreled receiver K98k (Russian Capture) with 2 EAGLE "ZZA4" SS markings on barrel and receiver. One crown marking on one side 3 crown the other. What could this mean?
I have a 1915 Spandau GEW98 (with 1920 property mark) that was converted into a 98k with flat butt stock, yet with a barrel that has a sight hood. The barrel was replaced, and the bore is excellent. Unfortunately, the gun has no matching numbers. It also has an Iraqi "jeem" mark on it, so it is a well traveled weapon.
Almost a K98b. I am lucky enough to have found a matching example. Post WWI, Treaty of Versailles conversion. Same reason I love the Mosin M91, they killed everybody. I have one that went from Russia to Austria to Finland.
+Saber1796 The owner called it a Franken-Mauser. I don't think he knew what it was and the price reflected it. I knew what it was so I snatched it up. Probably my best gun show find.
I have a converted k98 myself, but it's receiver has no original markings at all, except its stamping on the side addressing it as a gewehr 98. The 2/42 only says s/42. No k. But its marked BYF all over it. Any ideas what all this means?
I've come across a few like that. You just have to look thru a lot of junk and listen to loads of BS to find one like that. Most folks selling a K98 like this one know what they have and its value so you are going to pay thru the ass for one this nice. Rare finds are out there but they are getting harder and harder to find. Any gun or pawn shop worth their salt will google and research what they have.
So basically in a nutshell it was carried by a German soldier in ww1 and than was given to a polish soldier but when Nazi Germany invaded Poland it was back in German hands and was modified to become a kar98k and was given to a German soldier again and now it's in your hands. Honestly That's amazing and it'll be interesting if the German soldier from ww2 who carried it was the son of the German soldier who had it in ww1
I have a gewehr 98 Mauser. It's a mauser waffenfabrik obendorf 1918 with a turkish crescent. I would love to know the history of it. Sides Turkish service.
I have one... 1917... Then converted to 98K and after the war it ended up in Israel.. There it got a new stock and sighthood... Never got converted to 7.62 and then somehow it ended up in norway :P
