Mauser 98 ID and Markings

[yj93ben]

I'm selling a few rifles for an estate. One is a Mauser mod.98, I think. Here are a few pictures of marking on the rifle. Any info would be useful.

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[Nibbs]

Pix of complete rifle would be helpful.
Looks to have been sporterized.
Value will depend on just how much it has been changed from Full Military Dress..

 

[Andy54Hawken]

The receiver code "243" = Mauser AG Borsigwalde

While I love Lyman receiver sights...your Mauser having one , makes for a great shooter...and a not so great collector's piece.
Andy

 

[yj93ben]

Pix of complete rifle would be helpful.
Looks to have been sporterized.
Value will depend on just how much it has been changed from Full Military Dress..

Really just trying to find out the caliber, manufacturer and date. On the receiver is marked 243 and below that 1940. Above that on the barrel is 7.9

 

[yj93ben]

The receiver code "243" = Mauser AG Borsigwalde

While I love Lyman receiver sights...your Mauser having one , makes for a great shooter...and a not so great collector's piece.
Andy

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Good looking sporter for sure.

7.9 = 7.92x57mm , commonly called 8mm Mauser.

With that said...
It may be wise to have a chamber cast done...to see if the caliber has been changed when the rifle was sporterized.
Andy

 

[Andy54Hawken]

"243" = Mauser AG Borsigwalde....that was the maker...
"1940" ..is the year....
Caliber should be 8mm Mauser...as I said above...I'd get a chamber cast just to be sure...
Andy

 

[CountryGent]

With that said...
It may be wise to have a chamber cast done...to see if the caliber has been changed when the rifle was sporterized.

^ This is very good advice considering what one can find in the field of sporterized martial rifles.

 

[arrowshooter]

Never mind, Andy got that re: 7.9

 

[Stomper]

The receiver code "243" = Mauser AG Borsigwalde

While I love Lyman receiver sights...your Mauser having one , makes for a great shooter...and a not so great collector's piece.
Andy

You know what'll bring that back to collector grade? A really good scrubbin' with some steel wool and sandpaper, that's what!

 

[Hueco]

You know what'll bring that back to collector grade? A really good scrubbin' with some steel wool and sandpaper, that's what!

 

[yj93ben]

You know what'll bring that back to collector grade? A really good scrubbin' with some steel wool and sandpaper, that's what!

Yeah, I talked with my gunsmith about cleaning up a bit. Maybe Cerakote or re-bluing it, Maybe find some military furniture for it. Try and get some of its former glory back.

 

[Member 75122]

I'm curious about that marking up near the front of the bolt. Looks like some kind of SS marking?

 

[bcp]

I'm curious about that marking up near the front of the bolt. Looks like some kind of SS marking?

The eagle over 77? Probably an inspectors mark on the extractor collar.

Model 98 Mauser

I have a Mauser model 98, that i believe was manufactured in 1898 with only 4 digits to the serial number. It has german "SS" insignias and various other stampings (CY, BNZ/1, bnz, a shield, a winged bird, etc...) all of the serial numbers match on all the parts. Does anyone have any idea...

www.migunowners.org

Bruce

 

[WAW44]

Yeah, I talked with my gunsmith about cleaning up a bit. Maybe Cerakote or re-bluing it, Maybe find some military furniture for it. Try and get some of its former glory back.

Cerakote and k98k former glory in one sentence.... ok.

- Remove the peep sight and have holes welded up and polished
- Add new rear k98k sight
- clean up and reblue
- get new wood, flat buttplate walnut or laminate stock. Laminate is more correct, although walnut could be still ok for early 1940.
- get new upper band and bayonet lug
- get cleaning rod


By the time you're done with all of the above you will be $600-$700 into it and it will still be nothing more than a non-matching shooter.

Here you go. A demilled 1937 k98k, $600, as parts donor.

https://imgur.com/a/jIT22l2

 

[gmerkt]

The eagle over 77? Probably an inspectors mark

Yes, this ^^. WaA = Waffenamt, arms inspection office. Each unit or detachment had its own number assigned. 77 must've been a fairly big one, they inspected concurrently at Steyr, Austria; at the Erma plant in Erfurt, at the Radom factory in Poland, and at least one other place I've forgotten. Definitely not SS.

From the pictures shown, this rifle is a complete mixmaster. The black enamel finish suggests it was put together in the 1950's from parts and sold by one of the distributors. I think even Sears sold such things at one time. It still has the stepped barrel on it and what looks like the original front sight, almost surely still 8mm. If you feel compelled to do a chamber casting to verify, you can do this inexpensively by using molten candle wax, that's close enough. Plug the bbl. just ahead of the chamber with a wad of newspaper.

Second opinion offered. Don't try to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Shoot and enjoy it as-is, restoration even to original cosmetic appearance is not economical. I wonder what the bore looks like, being as it was made in 1940, it had some hard years of war behind it by the time the parts came to the US.

 

[DLS]

What's the status of this rifle? I've always wanted to get a rough Mauser, clean it up and rechamber it for 8mm-06.

Don't ask me why but I'd like to toy with that cartridge.

This seems like a great candidate.

Thanks!

 

[yj93ben]

What's the status of this rifle? I've always wanted to get a rough Mauser, clean it up and rechamber it for 8mm-06.

Don't ask me why but I'd like to toy with that cartridge.

This seems like a great candidate.

Thanks!

Make me a ridiculously high offer and we'll go from there. Everything's for sale, at the right price. I'm selling this rifle for an estate. I have others as well.

 

[DLS]

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