Mystery Mauser 98 type rifle
A friend wanted to show me his dad’s 98 Mauser. At first glance it appeared to be a WW-2 Kar 98. It had the cleaning rod and typical front end, but the handguard went all the way back to the receiver like an 03A3 but a rectangular cut for the rear tangent sight (in fact the handguard was so humped up I could not get a sight picture with it set at the lowest elevation), there was no slot for the sling but there was a sling swivel under the buttstock and a fixed sling lug on its left side. The buttplate resembled an Enfield; there was no flashing around the buttplate. The gun appeared rearsenaled and fully refinished blued brightly. The receiver had no markings save for a tiny 7.92 cal. Bore looked nice, all the numbers matched. Yugo, or ????
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