Fills a slot in my Mauser variants to go with my Norge bcd41.
1935 S/42G Mauser K98k, Israeli use and conversion to 7.62x61mm (.308 Nato). Not the nicest example, but a lot of history. The first production model of the K98k put into service by Germany in 1935, survived WWII, and reused by the nascent State of Israel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. I think the stock is from an even earlier Standard Modell Mauser (1933-1934) retrofitted with a mid-war butt plate. Wood has a slight hairline crack at the wrist, and the hand guard is missing a piece of wood. “7.62” stamped on receiver and burned into the keel of the stock by the butt plate. Receiver has a couple of dents with an importer’s serial number on the right side of the receiver and the importer on the top of the barrel by the muzzle. Bore is decent bright with a little frosting, worn, but no pitting and not counter-bored. Mismatched numbers with some of the Waffenampts defaced. I've an Israeli sling coming from LTC, and have an Israeli sight hood in my parts box. Price was less than a RC as it is somewhat of a mutt and a little bit beat up, but I took a chance on it. If the crack is worse than it seems, and depending on what it looks like under the wood line, I can return it.
Some of the auction pics. You don't see many G dates; I've never seen a G date Israeli.
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1935 S/42G Mauser K98k, Israeli use and conversion to 7.62x61mm (.308 Nato). Not the nicest example, but a lot of history. The first production model of the K98k put into service by Germany in 1935, survived WWII, and reused by the nascent State of Israel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. I think the stock is from an even earlier Standard Modell Mauser (1933-1934) retrofitted with a mid-war butt plate. Wood has a slight hairline crack at the wrist, and the hand guard is missing a piece of wood. “7.62” stamped on receiver and burned into the keel of the stock by the butt plate. Receiver has a couple of dents with an importer’s serial number on the right side of the receiver and the importer on the top of the barrel by the muzzle. Bore is decent bright with a little frosting, worn, but no pitting and not counter-bored. Mismatched numbers with some of the Waffenampts defaced. I've an Israeli sling coming from LTC, and have an Israeli sight hood in my parts box. Price was less than a RC as it is somewhat of a mutt and a little bit beat up, but I took a chance on it. If the crack is worse than it seems, and depending on what it looks like under the wood line, I can return it.
Some of the auction pics. You don't see many G dates; I've never seen a G date Israeli.
T
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