[basspastor]

Decided to check out this Gun show near me at Port Charlotte Fl. . Walked in and immediately saw what appeared to be a nice RC k98 with tag at $379. It looked good so I pulled out $300 and offered it to him and he took it. He said "I'm easy". It's a BYF 43{whatever that means, if someone can please tell me}. Has strong rifling, with a little fuzzy stuiff when you use a bore light and nice stock with two Nazi birds on receiver and barrel and the older bird on the barrel grip. It looks like it has that shellac on it but it is much lighter in color and not near as thick as my other RC. I will try to post both to compare. Walked a little further and a seller asked me what I had. I told him a K98. He sells, "wants some ammo?". I say sure, expecting him to pull out a box of 8mill for $30 dollars. He pulls out a plastic bag full of 50 rounds of 1943 8mill ammo on stripper clips marked at $20 bucks. I think the clips cost that much so I buy it. I walk a little further and see an elderly man trying to sell a k98 WWII cleaning kit to a seller and the seller is not interested. I ask him what he wants and he says it's all in there and wants $25. He takes $20. Now I don't know whether you are suppose to shoot this ammo or save it for a display since it is real 1943 ammo and the kit is 1943. I will post the pics, I hope{bad at that}.

 

[basspastor]

k98 pics

This is the pic.

 

[pickax]

Looks like you did well. Good bore and not peened.
Any import marks on the barrel?

 

[basspastor]

yes. very hard to see but on the barrel near the muzzle/crown there is a "k98 German 8mm" and a little under that there is a tiny "CAI ST ALP VT" What is all that? BYF and 43 below on receiver top rounded part, no matching serials that I can see. Stock looks in pretty nice shape with a little repair below arm rest. Has those little capture screws. Cosmo-line still in bolt and who knows where else?

 

[pickax]

CAI is century arms, the importer. Nice small mark before the current large dot matrix markings all over the reciever.
Clean the cosmo and good shooting! (Dont forget the primers are corrosive, so clean barrel and bolt face well.)

 

[basspastor]

CAI is century arms, the importer. Nice small mark before the current large dot matrix markings all over the reciever.
Clean the cosmo and good shooting! (Dont forget the primers are corrosive, so clean barrel and bolt face well.)

Yea, thanks, forgot about bolthead

 

[basspastor]

it looks like white glue . There's no red in the laminate like my other RC

 

[basspastor]

well, I took the entire gun apart and cleaned it, bolt too. It was dirty but not too bad. There was a 4 digit serial number at the bottom of the stock.....like where the barrel lays only the on the front end......big 4 numbers. I think it was 7110.....and then it had another two digit number to the left hand side above it which was like 22 or something. Hard to read. The numbers in the stock were big. I'd be interested in knowing what they may be .

 

[finestkind]

I would keep the ammo.



Finestkind

 

[Turbo Archie]

How is the ammo marked?

Looks copper washed..


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[solman]

heck with that. blaze down.

 

[basspastor]

How is the ammo marked? Let me look again. I don't have a mag. glass and my glasses aren't cutting it.

The 8Mill bullets read something like this on the bottom of rim . "1943 M. F. A. M. M. F. P. II. { a letter or two could be wrong as it's very hard to see}