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Yup, we in Canada are bent over the barrel for the next two years at least with the Liberals. The rise of far right parties around the world is viewed as an unexplainable phenomenon by the main...

Yup. Up here a DUI is considered a felony by the crown and is grounds for refusal of entry at border crossings. Typical bureaucratic bs. I think when the offense occurred should have some bearing. If...

Thanks but that is the first thing I checked at the gun shop. The salesman really wasn't fussy about me pulling the action out of the wood but I told him it was no sale otherwise. I have seen a few...

Like Blackhawk said, they don't hang around long. I lucked out a month ago at a local gun shop. They had a rifle advertised as a Browning BBR in .243. These were a rather clubby affair made for...

The Battle of the Somme was a horrible day of slaughter for the British Army, 20,000 dead, over 37,000 wounded IN ONE DAY!! The Royal Newfoundland Regiment was attached to the British 29th Division...

I own a matching byf 41 cupped buttplate that has a numbered buttplate. Many were early on but production needs led to the practice being abandoned.

For $1000 you did good in my opinion.

a BYF 44 can be found with a walnut stock once in a while but not with a flat buttplate. All K98k's produced in 1944 would have had a cupped buttplate. Flat buttplates disappeared from use around...

Skilled labour was a cheap commodity back then. Plus the German penchant for over engineering practically everything. Later on in WW2 k98 production became a lot more streamlined and the Germans put...

The Yugos took a lot of captured German K98k rifles and refurbished them. They scrubbed the German manufacturer codes from the receiver, put new stocks and barrels on many and marked most Preduzece...

Probably a M48BO. They are Yugoslavian pretty much identical to the marked M48 rifles. The BO stands for Bez Ozneke(spelling?) which means "without markings" in Serbo-Croat. Made specifically for...

I have seen a few K98's that have been through the mill and it is surprising how well they will still shoot. As good as most sporters new off the rack if the bore is still decent.

Love those S42's!! The quality of those is unbelievable.

No one knows for sure but I think raw linseed oil is the best choice.

If it is original German production (even a Russian Capture) with visible markings I would buy it just to hang onto. Never know when you will come across a sportered K98 with a butchered stock. Price...

Actually the new books have a lot of original German documents in them. They are well researched works. You really should have a look at them before you condemn them. I have had quite a few K98's...

Actually those books are the latest and absolute best reference books available for the German K98k collector bar none and the authors are two of the leading authorities on the subject. Books like...

Nice K98. I think the stock may have been lightly sanded at some time as the WaA is smeared and not crisp but still a nice rifle. I think at that point in the war the stocks left the factory...

Nice rifles, Fred and good photography as well. They certainly are high quality units. I like the pre WW1 mausers as well for fit and finish. I read somewhere that to produce a rifle of similar...

That sucks and the Yugo 48 is an intermediate length action so a standard Mauser bolt will not work.

I think Col. is right. The Lyman 57 SME is for Springfield, mauser, Enfield as well. Enfield as in Pattern 14 or Model 1917 not Lee Enfield. They all mount on the right side of the receiver.

You will see a fair number of Czech produced K98's that were in Israeli service mostly redone in 7.62 NATO. The Czechs at Brno(DOT&SWP) and Bysterika(DOU) built rifles for the Germans during WW2 and...

Nice rifle and the pre war K98 actions are a fine piece of machining.

x2 on the 7x57. If you handload the old 7mm can be spruced up to .270 Winchester performance with no danger at all. I used to have one years ago and killed three whitetails and a black bear with four...

I'm thinking like Chuck said, the new bolt body may be pooched from heating without a heat sink. The bolt shroud alone will not screw into the bolt body. I guess I'll just hang onto my weird looking...