The Yugoslavian M48 post war rifles are often in great shape. Some of the Spanish La Coruna Mausers in 8x57mm are in pretty nice condition. Sauer, Steyr Mannlicher, Czech, etc, and well cared for. Others, although used in years of combat, were quality rifles from the 1930s by Mauser, J.P. Some K98s, as you can imagine, had seen some real use and tough maintenance on the Eastern Front. Try to find out some more on the vintage of your prospective K98 - who made, the year, and where it has been since.Īfter the collapse of the USSR, many captured Wermacht rifles started being sold of to the West, along with Russian SKS and AK-47s, then later the Polish, and Hungarian stuff. It still kicks like a mule though with 8mm military 196gn loadings. IMHO for this purpose, the Portuguese M904/39 Mauser-Vergueiro is a better / nicer rifle to shoot. It is much, much cheaper to buy a good older Parker-Hale, BSA CF2, Cz ZKK600/601 rifle or similar.Īs a knock about range rifle on paper, yes the cheaper K98s can be very good buys and fun to shoot as long as you don't mind heavy felt recoil and relatively indifferent accuracy. In recent years the 30-06 Norwegian and 8mm Yugoslav (Zastava M48 or M48a) examples arrived as surplus and many are in excellent condition and prices are reasonable.Īs a deerstalking rifle, the K98 in military form is frankly a terrible rifle - kicks like a mule that hasn't been given breakfast, has a poor stock design, and maybe worst of all sights that are difficult to see in good light and I'd imagine would make a deer near impossible to sight on in poor light / dark woodland conditions.įitting a scope properly (ie to the action not an LER pistol type replacing the rearsight) is a gunsmith job and few gunsmiths will do it quite rightly suggesting they won't waste their time and your money as the work is neither simple or cheap if done properly. Most of the 7.62 conversions have seen a great deal of range use and may well be shot out - they're not highly regarded by collectors and if the barrel is good still offer great value. Put shortly, there are cheap German KAR98s and there are nice ones, but those two conditions rarely coincide. Ex WW2 German-service examples come from many factories and many have considerable collector value depending on their condition, whether they have matched parts, and rarity or otherwise of their origin. Many surplus 8mm KAR98s were close to scrap condition and/or only suitable for spares when sold on the international market and many in good condition have since been shot out through heavy range use with the cheap surplus heavy ball ammunition that used be widely available. There is also the the very similar looking Portuguese M904-39 'Mauser-Vergueiro' in 8mm Mauser which arrived here 25 or so years ago as surplus usually in very good condition and at that time very cheap. Some South American countries did similar conversions. Norway rebarreled its KAR98s obtained in May 1945 when the German forces left the country and they weren't allowed to take any weapons with them. Israel, Colombia and some others rebarreled their surplus KAR98s in the 1960s to this as militia, paramilitary, reserve etc weapons.
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The original (8mm Mauser aka 7.92X57iS) is the most commonly found variant as used by the Wehrmacht / Bundeswehr from 1933 until the late 1950s, but also by Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Portugal and various other European countries pre-1945 and Israel, FYR, and various South American countries plus who know who else post-war.ħ.62 NATO. They come in military form in three calibres / chamberings. (KAR is the Germanic word for Karabiner - carbine or short rifle.)Īre you thinking of one as an historic arms military rifle or a stalking tool? As per original or modified / sporterised? (The former are common here the latter very rare and well done examples, rarer still.) It's a KAR98k actually, usually just called a K98, K98k, or more rarely KAR98.
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