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I know this will make a collector weep, but I'll get it back to original configuration again as soon as I can find a nice enough stock and bands. The metal parts are all there and unmodified except for the bands that are gone.
This rifle has quite a history. It is not an RC, but has had a bit to do with the Russians.... It is a battlefield pickup, found immediately after the German retreat from the Litsa front (near Murmansk, faaar north!), it was found in the mountains on the Norwegian side of the border after the Russians had swept the Germans out in 1944.
The stock was modified by the finder, an old man that was very dear to me, and as a nine year old kid I actually helped him modify the stock. (I was only 9 and did not know what I was doing...). To the old fellows there the K98s were not collectibles, there were loads of them around and they needed them for hunting, they were not sentimental about these things after what they'd gone through. So, sadly the original stock is cut to pieces, but this will be a great K98 again soon. (I'll keep the hunting stock, though, for sentimental reasons.)
This rifle has quite a history. It is not an RC, but has had a bit to do with the Russians.... It is a battlefield pickup, found immediately after the German retreat from the Litsa front (near Murmansk, faaar north!), it was found in the mountains on the Norwegian side of the border after the Russians had swept the Germans out in 1944.
The stock was modified by the finder, an old man that was very dear to me, and as a nine year old kid I actually helped him modify the stock. (I was only 9 and did not know what I was doing...). To the old fellows there the K98s were not collectibles, there were loads of them around and they needed them for hunting, they were not sentimental about these things after what they'd gone through. So, sadly the original stock is cut to pieces, but this will be a great K98 again soon. (I'll keep the hunting stock, though, for sentimental reasons.)
