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dutch henry	k98 stock numbers	Lead	[-]
Posts: 4 Jan 24 12 11:04 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tags : None Hi Folks, I picked up my first K98 a couple weeks ago at a gun show. It's a S/237 1938. Everything... barrel,bolt,reciever,floor plate,magazine follower,barrel bands and screws match.All the waffenamps are there and there are no import marks.However the numbers on the stock have me puzzled. There are two numbers on the butt plate. The first number matches the rest of the gun,but another number has been neatly X'ed out. Both numbers also are stamped on the underside of the stock between the butt and the pistol grip. The second number is also found inside the stock in the barrel channel. The last two digits of the second number are on the end of the stock next to the bayonet lug. I guess what I like to know is,could this have been done at the arsenal or has someone restamped the butt plate and stock to make look as though its all matching? What do ya think? I'd say the over all cond. is about 90%. The bore is exc., it seems to be a great shooter. The guy was asking 700.00 I got it for 600.00 Either way I'm pretty happy with it!
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h2oys		#1	[-]
Posts: 73 Jan 25 12 4:21 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Personally, I've never seen any numbers on the metal butt plate. I've seen the manufacturers mark but not a number. Are there any numbers on the back end of the wooden stock under the butt plate? Not all stocks have any markings under the butt plate, but if yours does, then that will tell you the week, month, and year the stock was made. Interestingly enough one of mine also has the swastika in the metal butt plate that no one would ever see unless they removed the butt plate from the rifle.
dutch henry		#2	[-]
Posts: 4 Jan 25 12 6:41 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I looked under the butt plate,but only found a single no. 3. It just seems to me, if someone was going to go as far as restamp the butt plate and stock,they would have removed the old numbers. I don't know, I'm just guessing here. Thanks for the help though.
dutchmills		#3	[-]
Posts: 1228 Jan 25 12 7:35 PM Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Perhaps a "Field" rebuild?
lwdavis		#4	[-]
Posts: 649 Feb 23 12 9:26 AM Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	When rebuilding one good rifle from two damaged, or just using slvaged parts, German armourers and even depot repair would often times line out and renumber as you describe. K98k's did not have numbered butt plates altho WW1 rifles did. Any inspector marks on butt plate? Any inspector marks on stock wood? Describe them. The stock on this is not a long stock cut back and spliced ahead of TG, is it? The number inside the stock would be the original number.
dutch henry		#5	[-]
Posts: 4 Feb 24 12 8:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The laminated stock doesn't appear to have been spliced. The only marks on the stock other than ser. nos. are three eagles on the right side of the butt. It looks like there were numbers under them but its hard to say. The flat butt plate has an eagle with a no. 63 under it,this is also on the end beside the bayonet lug. Everything else is stamped with a no. 26. Thanks for the info.

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