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The bolt is stamped with serial “286” on its body and on the base of the lever.
Mauser gewehr 98 bolt action rifle with side mounted scope serial numbers#
Its left side is stamped with the Weimar Republic eagle and the serial numbers “4070d” and “Gew98” and the opposite side bears four imperial proof marks. The camber is stamped on the top “ Waffenfabrik Mauser A.G. The rifle saw a long service, being used by the Nazi forces as well, as can be clearly seen due to the “Waffen28/280” stamps on the bolt’s lock. The removal of the old chamber and curved bolt were done due to the fact that the K98a used the M/88 cartridges and the new standard cartridge was the one used by the Gew98, the 7.92×57mm Mauser one. The “L” -shaped stacking rod attached nearby the muzzle in order to fit the long WW1 bayonet was removed to accommodate the small police type bayonet. The chamber and the bolt come from a Gewehr 98 model made by Mauser-Oberndorf in 1917 and the barrel and stock from a Karabiner 98a (K98a). This is one of the early conversions and is a mixture between the 1899 Mauser Karabiner 98a (which was produced between 18) and the 1907 Gewehr 98 rifle. The Gewehr 98s were also sometimes stripped for their receivers and Karabiner 98k rifles were built on those receivers. The updates to Weimar-era Gewehr 98's often included the replacement of the Lange Visier rear sight with a standard Karabiner 98k-style rear sight, a hole cut through the side of the stock to accommodate a K98-style side mounted sling system and sometimes a shortening of the barrel to K98 length. The Weimar Republic, the successor state to the German Empire, implemented a program designed to update their remaining supplies of Gewehr 98 rifles for the Reichswehr in the years following World War I. ~ Rare Transitional Weimar Republic 1899/1917 Mauser Karabiner 98 with Leather Carrying Strap ~