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You can put a few drops of colors in oil or 844 industrial colorant in your linseed oil with some thinner and make a fine stain. Remember as linseed oil oxidizes it darkens especially in a dark place like a safe. Might hit it with a wash coat if you take it down to bare wood. This will help the...

The problem is what did the trained monkeys at Mitchell's do to the rifle? This will probably have to be removed before anything is done. Flaxseed oil which is similar to Raw Linseed Oil on the stock. You have to heat this stuff up to get it to dry or hang it up outside somehow in the sun on a...

I have an M block 37 Sauer that's the front band short of matching. Beautiful original striped stock that unfortunately got sanded. What pictures you need?

My 37 Sauer RC shooter, mixmaster, mutt, Ebay parts special still draws comments and questions from the black plastic crowd at my range. It's assortment of numbers never comes up. I have like $300 in it. Put that thing in the right stock, get the period correct parts you need and shoot the heck...

Mitchell's has made a mistake in their description of these historic rifles. They are not Gestapo rifles made by prisoners at concentration camps, they are the even rarer General Mills K98ks made by a small California company to be used as free prizes in very large boxes of cereal. The project...

They needed some of that Birchwood Casey Plum Brown bluing in their tank.

There's legit ones left and these guys around here will be glad to help you out if you send a few pics. Next time try it before you buy it.

Happy Birthday !!!

Says it won't chamber in a K98k. The stuff I shot would but it made no mention of not being WWII spec. Thankfully I just bought a box cause it was cheap. It sure wasn't very accurate.

Says it won't chamber in a K98k. The stuff I shot would but it made no mention of not being WWII spec. Thankfully I just bought a box cause it was cheap.

Yes it's awful. PPU is better but thank God I bought a lifetime supply of Yugo surplus.

Mitchell's is the bottom of the barrel. I can't believe what some of them sell for on Gunbroker.

I don't consider a well repaired duffle cut to be a deal breaker. Pretty good indicator of a bring back.

My RC is a 37 Sauer. It could marched into Austria, Czechoslovakia, used in the capture of France and then sent to Russia in 1941. I wish it could talk.

The history of a car and a WWII battle rifle are as different as night and day. The blood of someone who gave his life fighting for whatever cause may be on that rifle. Quite different than whatever you find in a backseat left over from some conquest years ago. :biggrin1:

Perhaps some Yugoslavian partisan who lost several members of his family to the Germans picked up that rifle and in disgust defaced the stamps and dirty birds. A restoration dishonors that moment, it removes or covers up traces of Kursk or Bastogne. You just don't know how the rifles stamps were...

I tried to be nice noticing the post count. I took to OP to be a novice to the hobby and respectfully tried to set him straight. Its insinuated that I am a Nazi. Whew! :googlie

:thumbsup: Anxiously awaiting! :thumbsup:

Doubt you get any help. Collectors frown upon the such. Your trashing the rifle's history.

Shellac gets brittle with age, that's why you see so many RCs with the finish flaking. Try a little denatured alcohol on the takedown.