That's coming around good.
The firing pins should be plentiful I'd think.
That's not even an issue in the scheme of bringing that old 98 back from the dead.
That barrel looks real nice... that stock has been kick around a bit... Looks like it had some trench life..
there is a guy on E=bay selling them for 20 bucks... They work great
Wanted too add some info about the firing pin being clipped. When the USA entered the great war in 1917, France as a gesture offered the USA captured German war material. This was used too get people here to buy government bonds to support the war. So in short order France "deactivated" many thousands of gew98's and sent them along with many thousands more of German picklehauben and stahlhelms to the US govt to use in war bond drives in the states. Sometimes you may find a nice War bond rifle with either a clipped firing pin or a barrel with a drill rod welded in it. The same thing was done also too captured Gew88 rifles and carbines as well.
Have two Imperial pieces with clipped firing pins. A Kar98a 1915 Erfurt and JP Sauer 1916.
But this was also common practice on Veteran war trophies as well. Easy way too demill a rifle. Gew88 rifles had their firing pins broken and their bolt heads tossed.
The original firing pins can be fixed though by a good micro-welder.
Very nice Gew98 rifle and made the year the Great war started. Mauser Oberndorf probably made the best quality out of these rifles not too mention they were the original manufacturers of these as well. Finding an all matching Gew98 rifle is not easy either. For these rifles too still be in the original configuration, never went through the interwar period where most of these were later updated, survived WW2 through the Nazi era, not too mention surviving the hell of WW1 in the first place.
Check your barrel lot as well with you take these rifle apart. Should be marked B.S. Bergische Stahl-Industrie-Gesellschaft Remscheid.