K-98k Questions
K-98k Questions
i have a czech k98k. it has the czech "lion" ground off the reciever (you can barely make out some parts of the lion where "they" did not grind deep enough). it has a "winter" triggerguard. very nice shape. the barrel has a "GV" stamped in it at the base of the barrel. it has the lion proofs stamped elsewhere over the barrel and reciever really small (about the size of a nazi eagle). it has "CESKOSLOVENSKA ZBROJOVIKA,A.S., BRNO where the mod.98 would usually be on the side of the reciever. these were the ones from SAMCO. Tell me ANYTHING you know about this rifle. it shoots beautifully. It looks excellent, except where the crest was ground off. The stock is a late war? style w/ stamped barrel bands, and does not have the disk in the buttstock, the takedown is in the buttplate in the form of a hole in the extreme lower part of the buttstock. Well, let me know what you guys know about 'er.
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Some Czech rifles like the VZ-24 were used during the war, others weren't. Any rifle made at the Brno factory is high quality. They are not very expensive though, which is nice. German rifles average a higher price due to notoriety. Too bad your crest is defaced. Lowers the value. It's probably an accurate mauser though.
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The SAMCO K98's were made after the war by the Czechs utilizing spare K98 production parts and new made parts. The stamped trigger winter trigger guard is rumored to be a late late war German design, but it could just as well have been a Czech design. I am more partial to a German design as the Eastern Front would have been the necessity for such a design.
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