..................at least I consider it pretty mint.
In May of this year (08) I purchased a private collection consisting of 8, real, WWII sniper rifles (3 really good German rifles out of the 8) and 14 other period battle rifles from various countries. Every rifle was purchased for a friend of mine who collects sniper rifles. He cherry picked what he wanted from the other 14 rifles and gave me the rest. I in turn sold what he had given me to another friend and used the money to purchase this G98/40. Being that I have only owned one other 98/40 in 40 years I considered myself pretty lucky because this example is by far the most mint 98/40 that I have ever seen. Aside from a couple of very slight stock dings and two or three ever so slight rubs against the bluing (which can hardly be seen), I have never seen one so nice and thought I would post some pictures of it. The entire weapon is matching, inside and out. The only thing that it lacks is the original Hungarian style sight hood which is somewhat smaller and circular. The 98k type that is has on it now appears to be original to it, or at least it as it seems to have been on it forever.
This particular rifle belonged to the neighbor of the fellow I bought all the other weapons from.
Regards,
Chuck
PS: If anyone has an original sight hood I might be interested (don't know if I really want to change it out or not) in it.
In May of this year (08) I purchased a private collection consisting of 8, real, WWII sniper rifles (3 really good German rifles out of the 8) and 14 other period battle rifles from various countries. Every rifle was purchased for a friend of mine who collects sniper rifles. He cherry picked what he wanted from the other 14 rifles and gave me the rest. I in turn sold what he had given me to another friend and used the money to purchase this G98/40. Being that I have only owned one other 98/40 in 40 years I considered myself pretty lucky because this example is by far the most mint 98/40 that I have ever seen. Aside from a couple of very slight stock dings and two or three ever so slight rubs against the bluing (which can hardly be seen), I have never seen one so nice and thought I would post some pictures of it. The entire weapon is matching, inside and out. The only thing that it lacks is the original Hungarian style sight hood which is somewhat smaller and circular. The 98k type that is has on it now appears to be original to it, or at least it as it seems to have been on it forever.
This particular rifle belonged to the neighbor of the fellow I bought all the other weapons from.
Regards,
Chuck
PS: If anyone has an original sight hood I might be interested (don't know if I really want to change it out or not) in it.
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