K98k Thermometer

[bodes]

Forum Members, Is this K98k thermometer some sort of wartime presentation piece or was Bubba having some fun?

[besslein]

Forum Members, Is this K98k thermometer some sort of wartime presentation piece or was Bubba having some fun?

hey thats interesting item for sure Gi work

[Horrido!]

I'm sorry, but I gotta ask "what kind of moron would cut up any rifle to make some hilljack backwoods art form of a thermometer?" To each his own tastes and likes, but this.....I just don't get it. It's like if I came home from Iraq with an AK and cut it up to turn the barrel into a water hose sprayer.

[bodes]

I too have my doubts about it being any thing more than some sort of backyard butcher job.......I doubt the Germans would use important military weapons to make such items.....Especially when they quite often reused any thing they could.....Bodes

[CWP]

There are no limits to what Bubba will do.

[Brian George]

Perhaps it wasn't Bubba.

Whoever cut the slot in the barrel had access to a milling machine. I think that this was the work of a gunsmith.

Think about it. He must have been building sporters off of 98k actions. For him, the barrel and stock were so much junk. I knew of smiths that just burned the stocks for firewood, no one wanted them. It wouldn't have taken much to make the bits into a thermometer.

Brian

[Horrido!]

Perhaps it wasn't Bubba.
Think about it. He must have been building sporters off of 98k actions. For him, the barrel and stock were so much junk. I knew of smiths that just burned the stocks for firewood, no one wanted them. It wouldn't have taken much to make the bits into a thermometer.

That's very true....never thought of that. Right after the war and up until recently, the only thing people wanted was the Mauser action, and to hell with the rest. In fact, I still know some knuckleheads who have a stash of K98s and cut the actions out, and give me the stocks and other misc parts. It pains me that they destroy them, but having the parts is nice.

[MauserKar98k]

...It pains me that they destroy them...

To say the least, I'm sure. It breaks my heart to see Mausers butchered like that. I'm still trying to get one!

[Johnnie]

I know it is hard for some of our younger members to believe, but there was a time in the States when 98Ks were almost literaly a dime a dozen.
And thats why no one worried about cutting them up and sporterizing them.
I suspect like others have said, this was done by an enterprizig gunsmith, and the rebarreled restocked action is now in someones guncase only to come out during hunting season.

Johnnie

[MauserKar98k]

...there was a time in the States when 98Ks were almost literaly a dime a dozen...

Johnnie

Those were the days, huh? Too bad it isn't still like that.