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If you do get the chance, knowing the year would be hopeful.

What year is the bayonet?

Looks like an Obercommando unit. Or main headquarters army unit.

I’d be curious if these men fought alongside the African Kaiser during the war and minor skirmishes before the war.

Excellent G88! Very cool to read the history on them as well!

If it helps you can just send me some pictures of the books while they’re on the shelf. Saves you a lot of typing.

Marc, these would be an excellent way to start the thread off. I’m going to late this over into a note on my phone so I have it at the ready. I’m definitely going to try and gravitate towards books that are mostly, if not unanimously, agreed on.

I think I might make a new post on this topic here soon and update it as I collect more books. My goal would be to have 1-3 books per weapon. For example AK47 & Variants: The Grim Reaper 2nd Edition by Frank Iannamico I know it’s considered the “AK Bible” and I don’t know of many books that...

The polish aren’t the most collectible. But they make great shooters!

Jim, Glad to see you hopped onto the k98 forum. Feel free to PM anytime if you have a quick question or want an honest opinion. To answer your questions. The maker and year will be displayed at the top of the receiver. A depot number stamping will be on the butt plate, typically 1-16, and some...

Glad to see you joined the Gewehr club! I’ve seen all you been posting it as a wanted traded on ingo and several other forums. Definitely a fine example for a first Gewehr. Much better than my first example lol.

This is a completely different model of rifle from a completely different Depot on the other side of Germany. You’re absolutely right on this. We should stop speculating and start diving deeper for actual sources. Some things are common knowledge and other things are not. Having a document...

To add to this. Why would the German army stop and take the time to sand down a stock to a rifle that would likely be going to a reserve troop and not the front line? Why spend all that time on a reserve rifle when there are surely front line rifles that need refurbed? Why wouldn’t they just X...

It’s hard to say what it is exactly until we have documentation. Any explanation we have is just a theory until we can actually prove what it is. It looked like a brinell hardness test. In some spots, maybe they hit it twice to get a “good reading” so they didn’t have to scrap the part. But it...

This is likely the case. Looks like a Brinell Hardness test was conducted on certain parts to make sure they were heat treated right or were up to spec. There is almost no other way you could get a punch that deep with a hammer and a punch, unless the carbon content in the steel was next to none.

There was were part of my question is. The other part is, how many rounds until you start getting keyholes? I know the groups will start opening up but I mostly shoot at steel.

And I rest my case. Thank you sir!

And this may be discussed in a book somewhere that I have yet to get to or know of.

I’ve been meaning to make a post on this for a good minute now, but has anybody done a study to determine the average barrel life of a Gewehr 98 or any other imperial weapon? I know most of us here have “shooters”, but if we are avidly shooting them, how long will they last? I know the end...

At the end of the day, something is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. The rifle could’ve brought $1 or it could’ve brought $10,000. Just depends on who is buying.