Trying to figure out exactly what this rifle is. K98 variant of some sort.

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  • Rburney

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    I have a rifle that has been sporterized and it is a k98 of some sort. Is it a K98a? I don't really know. Trying to figure out model and approximate year.
     

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    I would love to return this back to stock configuration. I am guessing that is going to be tough. I am already Looking for a 1917 stock (Eddystone) and an Arisaka type 99 long stock.
     

    NKBJ

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    Meanwhile, it looks like a right handy hunting rifle and if you reload it's chambered for one of the best hunting cartridges ever invented.
     

    ChalupaCabras

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    Undoing Bubba Joe's hardiwork can take many dollars, cents and years to find the correct parts.

    This. The stock set will cost you a few HUNDRED dollars by itself, IF you can even find a Polish stock. The barrel bands aren't hard to find, but the stacking hook is a fairly unique feature to these not shared by many other military Mausers, and will also cost you an absurd amount of cash relative to what it is.

    You would be better off buying a non- bubba rifle, and keeping this one for parts.

    I won't tell the OP it's impossible to put this rifle right again, but 99% of people who consider this have no concept of what the cost of such as project actually is. It is virtually always more than the rifle would ever be worth.

    That's one of the reasons why people get so upset when people cut these guns up.
     

    Hohn

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    I'm still kicking myself for not picking up that Swedish mauser from the 20s that BtB in Seymour had last year. I couldn't confirm all the wood bits were original, but the metal was in amazing condition.

    Especially next to the Spanish Mausers next to it that looked they had had been rolled in mud enough to be permanently that color.
     

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