#Mauser k98 serial numbers serial
#Mauser k98 serial numbers code

#Mauser k98 serial numbers serial

Bayonets were also captured from the Germans and refinished as well as restamped with new serial numbers.

#Mauser k98 serial numbers code

The Yugoslavians drastically differ, many Yugo K98kвЂ™s have domestically produced and elm stocks (YES ITвЂ™S ELM)(Some do retain their German stocks but they are in original finish and not ruined), as well as their markings being properly ground off and all pits and rust removed before bluing, a new and more communist crest being added where the German factory code used to be, and ensuring all rifles are complete and parts fit and move smoothly. Most Russian captures are know for a quick hot blue over pitting, crappy part fittings, lack of capture screws, red shellac stocks, markings gruesomely peened out by hammer, and far worse horrors. CanвЂ™t find a reference now unfortunately)Д«eing Yugoslavia these rifles went through a careful and tedious refurbishment process. (Side note: I once found read literature that claimed the USSR had actually sold back to Yugoslavia all of YugoslaviaвЂ™s own equipment that the Germans had seized during the war. But what they did have was a whole lot of K98kвЂ™s plus spare parts, and if they needed some tooling the USSR would be happy to give some tooling in exchange for loyalty and money. Being so short after the war Yugoslavia didnвЂ™t really have the right materials or tooling to make all new barrels, receivers, etc. After the war, like most Balkan countries, Yugoslavia became a soviet puppet.

Most of this is because of the Yugoslavian royal crests on the M24. Though many people do not actually know why they picked up these foreign military rifles when they still had hordes of M24вЂ™s.

Now IвЂ™m sure you can figure out how Yugoslavia got these rifles. Now there were a strain of M95 MannlicherвЂ™s that Yugoslavia refitted and issued to troops, but thatвЂ™s the same story different gun. This only include German K98kвЂ™s and no other country. This does not include the prewar M24, or the post war refurbished M24/47, and it definitely isnвЂ™t the M48. A reason for such a degrading comparison is due to the lack of information available on the internet.ДЇirst IвЂ™d like to clarify what exactly a Yugo K98k is, it a German manufactured K98k that the postwar communist Yugoslavian government/military got its hands on one way or another. When in fact many Yugoslavian K98kвЂ™s were procured and handed in a much different manner.

A lot of people claim that a Yugoslavian K98k (sometimes called k98/48) is very similar to a cheap Russian capture K98k.