1937 mauser

Hi there everyone I have pictures of my local gun club owners mauser that were trying to find some info on.

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This is one of the early Portuguese contract 98ks made in 1937, as denoted by the marking and date on the left side of the butt.

doesn’t appear that stock sn matches the metal sn s we can see.

Actually in 1944 all contracts for Portugal were absorbed by the German military and issued.
I have a 1937 dated one covered with waffen stamps. It was a war trophy brought home by a local man. I was able to get it from his daughter. Unfortunately he cut stock and drilled it for scope. But has a Great bore.
5th edition of Mauser rifles of the world by Robert Ball, has info on these nazi stamped rifles.
I would suggest getting this book, it has great photos and alot of info. I think I paid 37$ at the gun show recently.
It blows my 1st edition out of the water.

Antiqueshooter00c said:

Actually in 1944 all contracts for Portugal were absorbed by the German military and issued.
I have a 1937 dated one covered with waffen stamps. It was a war trophy brought home by a local man. I was able to get it from his daughter. Unfortunately he cut stock and drilled it for scope. But has a Great bore.
5th edition of Mauser rifles of the world by Robert Ball, has info on these nazi stamped rifles.
I would suggest getting this book, it has great photos and alot of info. I think I paid 37$ at the gun show recently.
It blows my 1st edition out of the water.

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That’s not accurate. The M937 and M937A Portuguese contract rifles never saw service in German hands in WW2. The order was completely fulfilled and delivered to Portugal by 1938. So unfortunately, it simply cannot be “a war trophy brought back by a local man”. The reason it has waffenampts is because they were rifles produced by Nazi Germany and “waffenampting” things is just what they did during the manufacturing process.

The last k98k rifle contract Portugal placed with Germany was July 15, 1941 for 50,000 rifles designated the M/937B aka K98k. 10,000 rifles of the Portuguese production blocks were diverted to the German military most likely due to operation Barbarossa in 1941-1942. So in total 60,000 of these Portuguese crested k98ks were produced by Mauser Oberndorf. Again, of which 10,000 were diverted for German use and show up as RC’s, bringbacks, Balkan reworks and Norwegian reworks. They all have a Portuguese crest on the top of the receiver and are dated 1941 under that.