BCD 42 Receiver XXI 7557 Depot Build
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Hercules
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Similar to my XI Depot BCD 41 Receiver Build.
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BCD 41 Receiver XI 7081 Depot Build
Been looking for a BCD 41 for years. Just always missed them. This one is a XI Depot build. Technically not built by BCD. But, probably cooler and fills the BCD 41 marked receiver slot. All matching to include screws. Band spring not numbered. Trigger group from a WW1 GEW. Possibly a...
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joryfreeburg
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Nice rifle…. Congrats
Hercules
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I’ve been lucky to find 3 of them. I had never seen one until about 2 years ago at the OGCA. Now a couple of others have surfaced. I doubt many survived as most ended up stuck in Russian mud. Here’s a chart of them from Karabiner 98K Volume 2B.
20th and 21st district builds seem to be the most common from my own experience and what others have seen along with Luftwaffe depot builds, nice to see that reflected in the book. Just realized something but holy cow I have the earliest of the 5 known examples when it comes to the reported Posen rifles in the book sweet!!
I wonder if anymore have been found?
Recently a barreled action numbered 337 "a" from Posen was on GB. It sold for $447 bucks like last week but was mismatched and I think a Russian capture but it didn't have the Russian dipped reblue finish which was nice to see but did have a Russian "X" visible on the receiver.
Stephan98k
aka 8x57IS
Here you can see some further Wehrkreis possibilities. I have updated the serial number study a bit and I know of 44,008 Heer Depot Build K98ks. A total of 50,000 were assembled. This means that either the remaining 5,992 rifles were assembled by the depots marked in red, or it was one of the other depots.
@Hercules
Congrats, it's a really nice rifle.
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Stephan98k
aka 8x57IS
Hello,
You over looked & need to add a red X to Depo X
Later
Vaughn
That was very fast, thank you. Do you have a photo? I actually wanted to mention this depot because @Jdt already reminded me about it with his comment. I hope not all Wehrkreis X K98ks were misinterpreted as "Russian Capture" and abused as shooters.
My father was stationed in this area and he was there several times a week at the former Heereszeugamt, sometimes I was allowed to accompany him when I was a small child.
Stephan98k
aka 8x57IS
The rifle has the serial number 1594, what is the serial number of the other K98k? I can't see the firing proof at the receiver, it doesn't have one?
I'm curious what people think about this one:
The blank receiver makes me lean towards a commercial rifle. Unless that droop wing eagle is a post war commercial proof.
Absolut
Senior Member
I'd think reblued and modern German firing proof
.Other than that, isn't there a script S between the last two digits of the "serial number"? Scrubbed Gew98 receiver? Barrel step has some replacement markings (0.2) additionally to the 7.9 marking.
