Model 98 markings
- Thread starter Gunnermd
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Use the messenger app camera, they are automatically sized correctly, 15 pics per post and be sure you have a title or they won't post. Your first rifle is a Steyr army contract rifle from 1943 and your second rifle is a JP Sauer, can't see the 2 digit date I'm guessing it's a 1944 dated example. The bolt looks renumbered since the metal is rather shiny but that could be lighting.
No problem, when taking the pics on the messenger app you will have to hit save each time. You can crop the images yourself tho if your using a phone with your photo edit and just wanna use the regular camera.
Strange, may be how it appears on your screen. For me when I hit reply there is a "paper clip symbol" and "Attach files" in the bottom left corner of the white box, should be roughly mid way on your screen and to the left. When I hit that it takes me too a choose action screen and then I go to my gallery from there.
Cyrano4747
Well-known member
Are you uploading from PC or a phone? If PC download and install Windows Power Toys - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/
It's an official microsoft thing, and it has a ton of useful utilities. The one we're concerned with here is image resizer. You can select any number of images you want, right click, and resize them. The medium setting works well for this forum.
Why this wasn't basic functionality in Windows I'll never know. . .
(that could also be said of every other "toy" in that powertoys thing)
It's an official microsoft thing, and it has a ton of useful utilities. The one we're concerned with here is image resizer. You can select any number of images you want, right click, and resize them. The medium setting works well for this forum.
Why this wasn't basic functionality in Windows I'll never know. . .
(that could also be said of every other "toy" in that powertoys thing)
Cyrano4747
Well-known member
Also you would likely get better traction on this over in the K98k forum. It's a bit hard to tell much about the rifles from the pics you posted mixed in as they are - initially I thought the BNZ was a bolt mismatch, for example, until I figured out from the stock color that the bolt number pic was for the CE.
That said, at the very least I can say that the BNZ is a Steyr made rifle from 1943. The CE rifle was made by JP Sauer. There should be a date south of those letters on the receiver, should be 43 or 44 based on how they wrote the letters. I'm going to guess 44 just based on the machining, although frankly I'm a little confused by that as I thought Sauer continued to cosmetically machine their receivers (edit: by that I mean remove that ring you see above the CE) until they stopped production. I could easily be wrong on that, though. Others will know more.
That said, at the very least I can say that the BNZ is a Steyr made rifle from 1943. The CE rifle was made by JP Sauer. There should be a date south of those letters on the receiver, should be 43 or 44 based on how they wrote the letters. I'm going to guess 44 just based on the machining, although frankly I'm a little confused by that as I thought Sauer continued to cosmetically machine their receivers (edit: by that I mean remove that ring you see above the CE) until they stopped production. I could easily be wrong on that, though. Others will know more.
Yes I reposted a second series of just the bnz on the new member thread. This is honestly my first time chatting on forums so forgive my lack of etiquette. I know I’m I’m all over the place here.
I posted another series of just the ce rifle in the 1933-1945 Nazi era (I think that’s right).
I posted another series of just the ce rifle in the 1933-1945 Nazi era (I think that’s right).
Yep, basically if a rifle that has a manufacturer code and Nazi or weimar style eagles on it then it belongs in the Nazi section of the forum
as it states it is ment for examples from 1933-1945.
