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Bands should also still be numbered and I believe stock in the channel still in h. And since no one was making KMs that early an upper band with a screw hole would not be correct. Band spring is backwards too of course! Stock could be right but bands do look like post war Czech. What’s in the...

Bobs right of course as the KM mods didn’t start till the L block. Also you see an awe full lot of sporters restored using post war Czech “semi” stocks - lug but no discs - that are far more common than wartime in that configuration.

That’s great metal and definitely worth restoring. Milled/phosphate FP and stamped/blued TG is a great and attractive combo.

Here’s a fav of mine. C stock from a byf 45. Foreend shortened, recoil pad screwed on to the back.

I use the term Bubba with endearment. Bubba was my father too. He was a navy vet from the war and this is a mag he bought in the early 60’s when there were pallets of milsurp rifles on the docks and no one had a clue what to do with them! He got an 03-A3 from the CMP about 3 weeks before I was...

The various serial number studies might also represent another “Dipstick”. How many of your guns are in there? What sample size might this represent? Certainly a fraction but perhaps something that can be extrapolated. How many k98s trade on GB vs. other types we might have better numbers on...

I think about the only thing you can safely say “a fixed number that is getting smaller”. Why smaller? Cause bubba is still out there. Ok so we’re not sawing the front end off the stock anymore, but every day here we see folks finding untouched rifles and “improving” them. Really no different...

We need more late war!! Really nice all around. Love the svw receiver and late dot’s undrilled for the cleaning rod are a favorite on mine.

The best part of late Gustloff rifles are the milled parts like the TG here! Is this a case of someone thinking the milled band was incorrect and “fixing” it? I know a lot of rifles were “fixed” based on BB and we know where that gets u.....

L blocks are great you could build a whole collection around the transition variations. Nice wood under the finish.

Now I know where all those post war Czech stocks went ;)

I agree - not so sure it’s cleaned/oiled - seen plenty of C stocks like this and could easily be normal patina. If I picked it up I wouldn’t touch the wood. Love the late MO guns with C stocks!

I’d say Emory paper to get rid of rust/ minor pitting then cold blue

All u need to know is that gustloff never made any ZF-41’s. And that’s about the extent of my knowledge! Is he wearing gloves to keep all that greasy stuff on the stock off his hands?

That’s an absolute beauty. Really nice tone to the phosphate and I love the ring under the “Mod 98”. Looks like no final acceptance or proof? I think lots of these factory guns were found w/o screws and unfortunately folks have “completed” some of the guns assuming they were lost. I also...

Nice. I love the S block especially as there is a ton of variation there - three different stock materials, blue and phosphate receivers, odd balls like BNZ 44 leftovers and endless varieties of sloppiness. One could build a collections round this block alone.

I can still sing the theme song word for word, as well as the various taudry versions we made up as kids!

I’m with bob and mike. I think GB gets a bad rap sometimes but any marketplace has its pitfalls/snakes and buyer beware is still the rule. It’s just not for the ones still learning or it will be the hard way as they say. I’ve been surprised by some real gems that I thought went for below...

I think it was actually jethro Bodine! He was Jed clampet’s nephew. Of course, he was the son of Max Baer, who famously defeated Max Schmelling, who of course served as a fallschirmjager during the war.....what do they say about six degrees?

Stock is the best thing about that rifle I personally would not clean/touch it