Hey everyone, I recently got the opportunity to purchase a k98 off the Canadian market seems to be matching up until refurb for 30-06. He’s asking $3000 CND. These rifles seem hard to come by in this configuration and condition. Feel free to let me know what you guys think. Cheers!
K98 Norwegian capture 1941
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about $2100 usd yup
Much better. Not a bad looker either.
Muncher 1953
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Depends on how you feel about “Norwegian captured” rifles. they’re like a russian capture but with better finish.
I’m not a fan of the .30-06 conversion, weakens the stock in an already imperiled spot behind the recoil lug, many of these conversions exhibit recoil lug breakout due to the combination of removed wood & somewhat greater recoil of the US cartridge. maybe if you had Norwegian ancestry, but that’s more than I’d pay for a ‘another nation’ used K98k. It’s a northern European equivalent to a Yugoslav-reworked K98k, would you pay $3000CD or $2100USD for a Yugo used rifle? I wouldn’t, but it depends on your means.
I’m not a fan of the .30-06 conversion, weakens the stock in an already imperiled spot behind the recoil lug, many of these conversions exhibit recoil lug breakout due to the combination of removed wood & somewhat greater recoil of the US cartridge. maybe if you had Norwegian ancestry, but that’s more than I’d pay for a ‘another nation’ used K98k. It’s a northern European equivalent to a Yugoslav-reworked K98k, would you pay $3000CD or $2100USD for a Yugo used rifle? I wouldn’t, but it depends on your means.
These are hardly comparable to a Yugo or Soviet rebuilt rifle. Norwegian rebuilds aren’t worn out, completely mismatched/refinished, or oil soaked. Bore is going to be good, and they are usually earlier war guns.
Is it $2,100.00 worth of gun? Not to me. But a Yugo isn’t the metric IMHO.
Cyrano4747
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I don't know if Norwegian captures are more or less common than in the US, but keep in mind that this is in Canada and not only is it $3k CAD but the relative availability of stuff up there is all over the place compared to down here. Want an SVT-40 or a cheap Chinese M1A? Super, SUPER cheap compared to the US. Want a G/K43, K98k, or Gew98? Way less supply, prices way higher compared to what a comparable rifle would get down here.
I don't have my finger on that market well enough to say if this gun is fairly priced, but I've got a few friends up there who collect and it's just a totally different market.
Muncher 1953
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to each his own. I agree that the Norwegian modded rifles are much nicer looking & less crude that the Balkan style conversions, but after looking at Mowzerluvr’s leftover Norwegian stock sets for 18 months & getting no or lowball offers on them, I think of them as pigs w/lipstick. The trigger guard mod for .30-06 really messes them up as far as shooting much. At least the other nations (mostly) left them in 8mm.