Originally Posted by
mike webb
As stated the byf code 98 is an Oberndorf manufactured rifle and in 1942 the rear sight would have been numbered to the rifle, pretty hard to replace. However the DOU44 is restorable particularly if the parts on it match. Actually it was made at Bysterica, Czechoslovakia not Brno, all Brno made rifles were stamped DOT or SWP not DOU. In 1944 many parts were not serialled to the rifle in the interest of faster production so if you can get a late war Czech stock( laminate with cupped buttplate without a bayonet lug) with fittings you can restore it to pretty much original issue. I wish I owned them.