strange k98 bolt

[jurggie]

Your eyes work just fine, there are indeed holes but i really doubt if it was used as a sniper rifle. I also just bought it as a norma k98.

I will make some pictures of it, maybe it helps, you never know.

[John Hodgin]

If the bolt in your father's rifle was EXACTLY like this one, then it didn't have the right bolt in it either.



Now look at the same area on a real German WW1 bolt.



Notice the difference?

Ah yes indeed. The flare at the bolt handle is not what was the same on my father's 98, what was the same was the "cut" ball with the checkered surface.

[jurggie]

Here a picture of the holes.

[John Hodgin]

At some time (postwar) a scope was mounted.

[phild]

My guess is that the bolt is out of a Polish 98 carbine, made on the old Danzig Arsenal tooling...but show some slight differences in finishing than the original German 98a bolts. The proofs would clear up any questions...

If that bolt was gunsmith turned, milled flat and knurled, from a straight 98 bolt body just for that rifle (post war) they went to a lot work for very little sense.

[Craig W.C. Brown]

German K98a bolts are numbered across the top of the bolt root, parallel the axis of the bore, readable from the left side of the rifle. You need a photo of the underside of the bolt root to determine if this is a German WWI bolt; there should be a German acceptance stamp there.

[gew98]

OK ; It's not a german bolt period. It's c ontour of the bolt knob radius and stem are PEREFECTLY CLEAR. on those points , plus the way it's serialed is another clincher. Ifg anyone knows a Kar98a from the 1907 through 1918 era with a bolt EXACTLY like this I'll kiss their arse !!!.

[jurggie]

German K98a bolts are numbered across the top of the bolt root, parallel the axis of the bore, readable from the left side of the rifle. You need a photo of the underside of the bolt root to determine if this is a German WWI bolt; there should be a German acceptance stamp there.

hi, i'm not so familiar with English technical terms.
What doe you mean with "axis of the bore" and "bolt root"?

[Craig W.C. Brown]

Bolt root: flattened portion where bolt handle joins the body of the bolt.
Bore axis: longitudinal center of bore.

[jurggie]

do you mean this?



I have taken the bolt out of the rifle and looked everywhere for stamps but the only thing i could find was a very small A in a sort of square and I don't think that's the stamp you're looking for.

[jurggie]

hello you guys,

I know that it's an old topic but when I posted this k98 on another forum I remembered that I still didn't know exectly what kind of bolt it is.

Some say a ww1 k98a bolt, but a lot of collectors say that's not possible.
Can anyone come up with the "solution"?

[gew98]

Thw simple solution is thus - the rifle has been drilled and tapped for optics postwar , and in doing so has had rear receiver charger guides ground off. On top of it all it has a NON german export mauser bolt in the action. It's a shooter with zero collector value. Be happy with that or toss it in a pond.

[jurggie]

Thw simple solution is thus - the rifle has been drilled and tapped for optics postwar , and in doing so has had rear receiver charger guides ground off. On top of it all it has a NON german export mauser bolt in the action. It's a shooter with zero collector value. Be happy with that or toss it in a pond.

straight to the point

[gustav]

hello you guys,

I know that it's an old topic but when I posted this k98 on another forum I remembered that I still didn't know exectly what kind of bolt it is.

Some say a ww1 k98a bolt, but a lot of collectors say that's not possible.
Can anyone come up with the "solution"?

Wel..........look at the mauser 33/40

[Chris D.]

Wel..........look at the mauser 33/40

the g33/40 bolt actually has a hollow bolt handle, not the checkered one as pictured.

I agree this is a WWI kar98a bolt.