Hello All,
I am way behind on my info for Gew98 stuff. With that said I bought this barreled receiver. it clearly is NOT a WWI built sniper. The front base was mounted on a soldered spacer to raise it higher for a large ring setting as this is a Kar98a barreled receiver. the front base is also mounted to close to the edge of the receiver after the handguard retaining lip was removed. with these observation its a 100% build just after WWI as a sporter bringback or other unless others say other wise. I would like to use these bases for a sniper build. Now the part that has me perplexed is the rear base. All Gew98 snipers I have seen have a few different patten of 4 holes (diamond pattern, square) this only has 2 screws/holes. now it is obvious that the rear base has also been altered as they didn't cut the base to sidle up to the charging hump radius with about 1/8 milled off the rear. I also noticed the front base has NO holes for attaching screw and radius cut for front ring receiver, its the dovetail type like the normal or SSDC mounts. Could these be the commercial version of the wartime sniper bases or are these a set of WWI sniper bases that were never finished/leftovers and used? I do have a set of the French guys WWI sniper rings and they need very little fitting to get them to work but will not seat on either base but they start just barely not much in the fitting area to get them to work which is a good sign. hopefully some one can help or fill me in. please see pictures attached. I want to remove the bases but if this is how it should be I would rather ask before I remove for another project as my WWI sinper area is very limited. font and rear sight are sporter sights, infront of rear sight base step all forward steps have been removed to make a straight taper. also ALL proof marks and model marking have been remove from receiver and barrel with a new serial added or restamped the serial that was removed during the sporter process. I am guessing by how the front base riser was fitted on the rifle after installed as it has a tiny step on each side of the base riser, the manufactuer MIGHT be still prsent but wont find out till bases are removed. both bases are soldered in place.
Thanks
Vaughn
I am way behind on my info for Gew98 stuff. With that said I bought this barreled receiver. it clearly is NOT a WWI built sniper. The front base was mounted on a soldered spacer to raise it higher for a large ring setting as this is a Kar98a barreled receiver. the front base is also mounted to close to the edge of the receiver after the handguard retaining lip was removed. with these observation its a 100% build just after WWI as a sporter bringback or other unless others say other wise. I would like to use these bases for a sniper build. Now the part that has me perplexed is the rear base. All Gew98 snipers I have seen have a few different patten of 4 holes (diamond pattern, square) this only has 2 screws/holes. now it is obvious that the rear base has also been altered as they didn't cut the base to sidle up to the charging hump radius with about 1/8 milled off the rear. I also noticed the front base has NO holes for attaching screw and radius cut for front ring receiver, its the dovetail type like the normal or SSDC mounts. Could these be the commercial version of the wartime sniper bases or are these a set of WWI sniper bases that were never finished/leftovers and used? I do have a set of the French guys WWI sniper rings and they need very little fitting to get them to work but will not seat on either base but they start just barely not much in the fitting area to get them to work which is a good sign. hopefully some one can help or fill me in. please see pictures attached. I want to remove the bases but if this is how it should be I would rather ask before I remove for another project as my WWI sinper area is very limited. font and rear sight are sporter sights, infront of rear sight base step all forward steps have been removed to make a straight taper. also ALL proof marks and model marking have been remove from receiver and barrel with a new serial added or restamped the serial that was removed during the sporter process. I am guessing by how the front base riser was fitted on the rifle after installed as it has a tiny step on each side of the base riser, the manufactuer MIGHT be still prsent but wont find out till bases are removed. both bases are soldered in place.
Thanks
Vaughn
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