98K Barrel Steyr

BillyGreen

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Steyr 98K Barrel in very good cond. Has 742 stamp, bulleyed W, Bo (umlout o), bullseyed STEYR, waffenampt e/623. On the bottom before threads is 6. An O and a J stamped by themselves and 3rd Reich inspector eagle has mostly been buffed but visible, are near the step. Nice blued steel about 600mm length, excellent rifleing. No serial #. So what history does this barrel have and for which action does it go on? Thank you.019.JPG
 

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Perhaps late war based on the blueing and ex cond. Bnz 44 or 45. Maybe after the war 80 % eagle buffed away and f sight removed, leaving light area, here N America after a GI picked it up at factory with no serial but eagle.
However if axis factories switched to code stamps in early war then maybe 1940 Kriegsmarine. I gave a friend a Norwegen 623 stock set with 77 hardware, Maybe I'll ask for it back.
Don't know what the 6 stamp means.
 
These are impossible pictures to make much of... however because this is an interesting subject I will "guess" at the markings.

The SDP bulls-eye comes in two forms, one the a "W" in the center and the other with "Steyr" in the center, sometimes-usually both are on the barrel together, these seem to date the late 1942-early 1943 and typically in ordnance work or as sub-contracted to Gustloff Weimar (bcd) in the c-block of 1943. There is an early bnz/42 with such a barrel but it has later features that suggest extensive ordnance work. (and the bulls-eye barrels earliest appearance in bnz production is the b-block of 1942, ending mid-late 1943 numeric lots giving way to alphabetic in the k-block of 43).

In any case this is a 1942-1943 barrel, application was "probably" ordnance or as a sub-contracted barrel, you could try clear and sharp pictures to offer more clues, capturing all markings, front sight or any associated component and maybe a better guess could made, but this is not a late-war barrel.

** I have never seen a lot higher than mid-200's on a SDP made barrel (bulls-eye), so the 742 is a mystery with these pictures, maybe a rifle serial number or a waffenamt (e/749?), bcd/43's that have such barrels also carry the e/749 waffenamt.
 
Thank you for all the great information! Yes under strong magnification piece, It looks like 749. The 9 has a tiny ding. Except for a lone 0 there is no serial #. Better pics.
 

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Paul is of course correct in everything he told you in post #3. The e/623 is Steyr acceptance and the e/749 acceptance ties it to Gustloff. The only thing I can really add is the Bö identifies the blank supplier as Böhler which is still a high performance steel manufacturer
 
A bcd/43 c-block would not be serialed on the barrel and this very likely came off such a rifle or one very close in range. Gustloff Werke Weimar used a good number of SDP barrels between the b block and f-block of 1943 (in general SDP was a large supplier to bcd until 1944). So far this "type" is only known for bcd in the c-block of 1943

Too bad you only have the barrel!
 
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