David LaPell
08-02-2021, 11:32 PM
About a month or so ago, I happened to find a K98 Mauser at the local gun shop. It was a duffel cut rifle, but whoever brought it back only cut off about 6 inches to before the barrel band. The gun was cheap, but the best part is it's all numbers matching and is a late war gun, made after October 1944 according to some of the references I've been finding. Even more interesting, is that the rifle was never drilled for a cleaning rod, which would make it a transition or partial Kriegsmodell gun, which were the last ditch guns made for the Wehrmacht, which they were minus the cleaning rod, bayonet lug and the bolt disassembly disk. The Kriegsmodell guns had a simple hole in the buttplate for the bolt disassembly.
So I ended up looking for a donor piece which I found, and after doing a lot of research on how to repair this, and several videos, I mated up the two pieces. I have used a large pin that's been JB Welded in place with a couple smaller pins to keep it from twisting side to side. I have some Acraglas on order and when it gets here I will glue everything together. This is my first time trying it, but so far it's coming out pretty good. I am going to use a wooden dowel to fill in the hole where the cleaning rod is and use some wood putty on the end mixed in with some shavings from when I cut the pieces to length. Since it was a gun without a cleaning rod, I am going to keep that as it was since I have pics to back it up. It won't ever be perfect, but at least it will look like a K98 again.
https://i.imgur.com/7IavZNI.jpg?1
https://i.imgur.com/6Wapyr9.jpg?1
https://i.imgur.com/Uww75Wa.jpg?1
The donor piece as I got it.
https://i.imgur.com/wZDm9HG.jpg?1
No hole was ever drilled for a cleaning rod.
https://i.imgur.com/9odiaUH.jpg
The stock pieces mated up waiting for the Acraglas to come in.
https://i.imgur.com/6iBlN1v.jpg?1
The large pin that's JB Welded in place with other pins to keep it from flexing left and right.
https://i.imgur.com/ygmz6ch.jpg
So I ended up looking for a donor piece which I found, and after doing a lot of research on how to repair this, and several videos, I mated up the two pieces. I have used a large pin that's been JB Welded in place with a couple smaller pins to keep it from twisting side to side. I have some Acraglas on order and when it gets here I will glue everything together. This is my first time trying it, but so far it's coming out pretty good. I am going to use a wooden dowel to fill in the hole where the cleaning rod is and use some wood putty on the end mixed in with some shavings from when I cut the pieces to length. Since it was a gun without a cleaning rod, I am going to keep that as it was since I have pics to back it up. It won't ever be perfect, but at least it will look like a K98 again.
https://i.imgur.com/7IavZNI.jpg?1
https://i.imgur.com/6Wapyr9.jpg?1
https://i.imgur.com/Uww75Wa.jpg?1
The donor piece as I got it.
https://i.imgur.com/wZDm9HG.jpg?1
No hole was ever drilled for a cleaning rod.
https://i.imgur.com/9odiaUH.jpg
The stock pieces mated up waiting for the Acraglas to come in.
https://i.imgur.com/6iBlN1v.jpg?1
The large pin that's JB Welded in place with other pins to keep it from flexing left and right.
https://i.imgur.com/ygmz6ch.jpg