K98 "dot"

[JindrichM]

Hello
I had the opportunity to see and shoot a interesting production from 98k to waffenwerke Brunn-dot is marked on all parts of the same eagle and WaA63 including breech, but the case is used in the Czechoslovak rifle mod. 24, which is in the armory produced before the war, the housing is roughly grinded inscription and the former number, new number is not excavated, many cases conclusions - "dot" but the number usually does not. Please enter all of your opinions on this weapon, if you have already looks.Thank you very much for your opinion

[Von Kleist]

Very Nice!!

Well known variation and something every collector would like to have in their collection..

I have a depot built 98 using a salvaged VZ24 receiver.



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[blitzkrieg gsd]

I like it myself do you know year of production I'm thinking late war is that rite? By the way how did she shoot?

[Bigdibbs88]

Very Nice!!

Well known variation and something every collector would like to have in their collection..

I have a depot built 98 using a salvaged VZ24 receiver.



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very nice piece. Von Kleist could you post pics of yorus?

[graf]

It is nicely in the middle of the range these show up most often (ap-ar), they do go beyond this of course but most are within this range. The vz24's are all in this block so far, but it would be nice to see what the barrel code is on this one?

Have you had it out of the stock? How is the barrel marked?

[JindrichM]

I had a chance to shoot it a few times, is accurate and works smoothly, as the other Mauser in good condition, condition Barrel is perfect for this
I will try to pull others out of the stock and shoot all the signs, what we find
If you have someone in your collection similar abnormality, please send a photo.Very thanks

[Von Kleist]

I like it myself do you know year of production I'm thinking late war is that rite?

Its late '44 ..


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[JindrichM]

Hello
Here I took all the tags that I found.
The date BR 4/7 44?under the rear fitting is the date of manufacture?
If you have more info on the issue, please write what and how

[Von Kleist]

Its the date the wood stock was made, but not the rifle...


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[graf]

As von Kleist has said, the rifle is fairly late 1944 Brno I production, essentially you have a dot/1944 ser. 899 aQ that was assembled using a leftover or recycled receiver. These come in a wide array of host receivers, usually partially scrubbed and cycled through dot/44 ranges starting in the "ap" block. They linger on into the early 5-digit ranges but most are in the ap-ar block serial range. So far all the recycled vz24 receivers are in the "aQ" block, this is the earliest so far. There are two others known and documented.

Your barrel lot (GV) is earlier than the others, which are GZ blocks but quite right. I wanted to see how far your barrel code was from the others known.

I emailed the owner of the vz24 that is very close to this one, perhaps he will show some images of his when he has a chance to view the thread.

[jack944]

similar

Here is my " ar" block rifle. Assembled by BRNO I with an early Borsigwalde receiver.

[3371940]

As von Kleist has said, the rifle is fairly late 1944 Brno I production, essentially you have a dot/1944 ser. 899 aQ that was assembled using a leftover or recycled receiver. These come in a wide array of host receivers, usually partially scrubbed and cycled through dot/44 ranges starting in the "ap" block. They linger on into the early 5-digit ranges but most are in the ap-ar block serial range. So far all the recycled vz24 receivers are in the "aQ" block, this is the earliest so far. There are two others known and documented.

Your barrel lot (GV) is earlier than the others, which are GZ blocks but quite right. I wanted to see how far your barrel code was from the others known.

I emailed the owner of the vz24 that is very close to this one, perhaps he will show some images of his when he has a chance to view the thread.

Here are the pics of mine. Interesting in that on the rifle here you can see the original vz serial number but mine appears to have an unused vz24 receiver. In observing these "reclaims" there appears to be mixture of used and unused receivers.

[JindrichM]

Hello gentlemen
Thank you so much for the pictures and info on the matter
It is possible that your original serial number is 24 mod refined? In my piece is quite shallow compared coined the words "Ceskoslovenska zbrojovka Brno" and grind for a while, it would no longer see
Still have a question, this is a rather rare variant or commonly appreciated and how much you can buy? Thanks for the info

[blitzkrieg gsd]

Thats a good question on the current value and rarity for these type rifles. I have another question were the flat style front barrel bands only used on these type late rifles? In stead of the h style bands that you see most of the time. And was that style of NAND used in the late part of war to save time? Or was it just a case of different manufactor making them just a littl different than the h style bands? Also the stocks on the rifles shown they look like laminate model is that rite? Seems like a lot of the laminate stocks have this same color style red is it common?

Does anyone have any ideas on who and when these were issued? Just wondering if these were issued to troops close to we're these we're made? Or if they were just sent to who ever needed them at the time. Does anyone have a time frame on any of these issues they could share?

[JindrichM]

Several Mauser rifles, I have seen and dug from the ground (metal detecting) were from the later phase of the war (the fight in 1945) had front welded fittings in the style sheet or a simple flat collar and a second fitting machined by milling is known from earlier types, cartridge box was also machined by milling known from earlier production kombination.Ale generally interesting, I had the opportunity to read the simpler shaped plates or sleeves used to accelerate production and discounted
We can not trace any photos, long ago, so I send at least one piece of a typical late war, sheet metal plate and winterabzug..