Stamped, K98k wide rear band question.

[lambo35]

Stamped, K98k wide rear band question. Pics now.

How do you tell the difference between an unmarked, late WW2, stamped, wide rear band and a post war Israeli, unmarked, stamped, wide rear band?

Chuck

 

[ClintJ]

How do you tell the difference between an unmarked, late WW2, stamped, wide rear band and a post war Israeli, unmarked, stamped, wide rear band?

Chuck

You mean Czech postwar?

 

[lambo35]

Clint, I bought an incomplete Israeli K98 in a 7.92 marked Beech stock. It came with a stamped, wide rear band. The band in question does not have any markings that I have found. My question is; is this a unmarked ww2 German [ or ?] band or one produced by Israel?

Chuck

 

[ClintJ]

Hmm. Pics would help alot. They used all kinds and produced their own.

 

[Turbo Archie]

There is no wide late war band.




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[ClintJ]

There is no wide late war band.




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I thought all bands were wide except Gew98? Nevermind, I see the smiley. Archies in rare form today. The Israeli bands were milled without a groove werent they or were they stamped like the H bands?

 

[lambo35]

I'll get pics up tomorrow [Sat.].

Chuck

 

[S/42]

Israeli replacements are wide, no groove, milled, parkerised (pretty crude really).

The band in the picture looks late-war Czech or post-war Czech. Most stamped bands had no waffenamt anyway, regardless.

 

[lambo35]

Thanx all. Is there a good reference somewhere on the characteristics of the K98's used by Israel?

Chuck