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How would someone reblue a take down disk? It’s such a difficult part to take down, probably not worth the effort.

define “real”? There aren’t any new production 98ks pretending to be authentic. There are old 98ks that have been messed with that pretend to be something they are not. Your rifle appears to be honest and original besides some stock sanding (unfortunate but common)

I’m dumb as a rock haha

I hate to say it too, but I’m 23 and I likely could not see a 2.5” round at 500 yard even it was fluorescent yellow. My best shooting ever was 4/5 shots with modern barrel BYF43 on 12” bright orange steel at 400 yard in prone. I still had trouble seeing that. OP - send a video if you get the...

Very nice shooting man. I do understand the doubts from others since the accuracy standard for the 98K was ~4 MOA at the factory. What ammo were you shooting?

Thanks for sharing Bruce. I took a look at the reference photos after seeing this and it is pretty evident.

I bought a refinished luger from legacy advertised as “all matching” but discovered it to be crudely renumbered when in hand. Just an anecdote, but they managed to appease me with $200z

What are the tells?

Christ almighty. How would you go about identifying this as a forgery if you it wasn’t a previously observed example?

No offense taken at all. Always interesting to see the perspectives of other collectors. I don’t own an RC and at the prices they are going for today, I think I would rather get a bolt mismatch. I’m just trying to find an explanation for their meteoric rise in value these last two years.

I should have elaborated a bit more in my comment a few days ago regarding “collectibility”. I completely agree that an RC is worse than a mostly mismatched gun in the eyes of a Mauser collector. Once beautiful rifles were torn apart, crudely renumbered, and refinished. However, to someone...

I think people are starting to recognize the Russian captures as legitimately interesting and historical pieces. The yugo and other Balkan reworks are still lagging behind in that regard. (Also maybe people just like the eagles)

Maybe like $600-$800?

Now that’s very interesting.

Appears to be a kreigsmarine property marking and inventory number. N indicates North Sea Fleet

Agreed

I li I like the look of #5, #6

$700 would be a bargain

is the rear sight serialized? Check under the wood and firing pin too.

That second unit marking has very atypical placement. Super cool though