Mauser gewehr 98 earliest photos code#
S/42 is the WW II code designation for the Mauser factory, actually in use a few years before the start of the war. Hi Bushwik- welcome to the forum! I can shed a little light on your rifle. I'd love to hear back from any of you if you have anything to add! Check out my photos of this awesome gun! Thanks everyone!ĮDIT: Not sure why I can't attach my photos! :( Not sure how my Grandfather acquired it (He's gone now.) but I am am interested in cleaning it up and shooting it because it is in fine condition. I presume this was either recommissioned or from someone's personal collection from the Great War and modified. The rifle looks to have been sporterized at some point and has a nice glossy epoxy and uniquely has two Nazi coins glued to the stock where the circular bolt disassembly pieces used to be (Some handy work btw WW1 + WW2 I'm guessing). So I was gifted a Gew 98 from my Grandfather that brought it home from a tour in France and Germany during WWII, it is a Spandau 1916 with quite a few different markings, some which I have identified as possibly Prussian markings but there are also markings that I could not identify including the "s/42" with what looks like 2 small eagle marks on the receiver below the flat sights. Hi there found this thread via a Google search and seeking some help from anyone in hopes that someone can help me identify my Mauser Gew 98 with the flat sights (This is what brought me here!!) Super interesting reading all of this thread so I figured I would reply just by chance someone might be able to help me. If these old guns could talk, the stories they could tell. I have also read that in Europe it was not uncommon to store rifles and bolts separately so that should the rifles fall into the hands of enemies foreign or domestic they were useless. So I have to assume that sometime somewhere a bunch of rifles and their proper bent bolts were separated from each other, and then the rifles re-issued with available straight handled bolts, and the one I have may have been one of them.
Then, years later, I was reading about WW II and how German support troops were often issued K98k rifles with straight bolt handles. He did a great job and it can't be distinguished from one that was originally made as a bent handle. He dug through his parts drawers and found one, but I had him bend the one that came in the rifle as I was worried about headspace-just something I had read but didn't know much about. There weren't that many gun books or gun magazines around in those days, so I consulted my local gunsmith and he confirmed that it should be bent. didn't match the receiver's number, but I didn't know much about them at the time, and it took about a year for me to realize that the dished out area in the stock below the bolt handle's knob was probably a relief for knuckles, in which case the bolt would have to be bent. My first K98k came when I was about age 15, and it had a straight bolt. Now there's an interesting point for speculation, straight vs.
Yours looks much like mine, except mine has a turned down bolt like Scharfs', back up in post #13. Verrry Interesting, as Artie Shaw used to say. But a double stamped K98k is a nice thing to have in one's collection because it indicates more-or-less continuous service from WW I through the Weimar Republic and into WW II, and that it probably started life as a Gew 98 with the roller coaster rear sight and was modified to K98k standards. So, just to be technically correct, there could be no K98k rifles left over from WW I as it was a postwar development. The same (double date stamps) can be found on some Luger pistols. The double date stamp can be an indicator of simple acceptance of the rifle into Weimar service unaltered, alteration to the flat sight, or modification to K98k standards.
This is where you'll encounter the double stamps on the receivers, indicating that the rifle was manufactured during WW I but later modified for reissue under the new standard. 98 only in having a flat tangent leaf rear sight." When the German Army decided upon the rifle commonly encountered in WW II, the K98k, overall length 43.6", production was still limited by the Treaty of Versailles. 98 Modified was also issued, described with one sentence only in "The Book of Rifles" by W.H.B. 98 was the initial standard issue, but the Gew. During the Weimar Republic era the original Gew.
It was unwieldy for trench raids and otherwise encumbered soldiers like artillerymen and machine gunners, so a shorter version was developed called the Kar. The main battle rifle used by the Germans in WW I was Gew 98, 49.2" in overall length, the most distinctive feature being the "roller coaster" rear sight. Didn't Germany keep a good number of K98a rifles after the war? I have one stamped 19 above it.
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