Oh boy... where to start...
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...?Item=80393372
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VOLKSTURM K-98 8mm WW2 Rifle w/Sheet Metal Sight
ONE (1) WW2 VOLKSTURM K98 RIFLE W/RARE SIGHT:
It doesn't get any better than this! Here we have the rarest K98 you can buy, the WW2, single-shot 8mm, Russian-capture German Volksturm rifle with the very rare sheet metal rear sight. The rifle, bore & all components are in very good condition. These guns are all but impossible to locate these days, so do not let this gorgeous rifle get away! Imported by C.A.I.
NO WARRANTY IS EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED
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Ok, so I'll try to point out how very wrong this rifle is. First of all, it is NOT a Volksgewehr. It is a late-war a-block swp45 semi-kriegsmodel that has been reworked in Russia. swp45 is the code that BRNO switched to after dot44. BRNO never made Volksgewehrs. Some time around the 70000a mark, swp45 switched from the typical late-war tangent sight to this stamped metal kriegsmodel rear sight. They are uncommon, as are all swp coded guns, but in RC form are worth a very slight premium over any other RC K98k at best.
A late swp45 like this should have a late-war bolt body, likely without the the guide rib and with round drilled gas vent holes instead of oval milled ones. It should be a parkerized bolt body. It should not have a bayonet lug, but should have a bolt take-down disc in the stock and it should be stocked in rough-milled wood that looks "beaver chewed" for lack of a better term.
It should have stamped stock bands held on by wood screws, not a band spring and the bayonet lug should be replaced by a piece of formed sheet metal. the trigger guard should be marked 'qnv' and the floorplate should be either a speed-milled "1" coded pice, or a "WaA214" or "byf" marked stamped floorplate. Follower should be stamped. Any other WaA's on the rifle should be WaA63.
Serialized parts should be:
-Receiver, but not barrel.
-last 4 digits and suffix on bolt root.
-last 4 digits on bolt shroud.
-last 2 digits on cocking piece (late-war pattern)
-last 2 digits on firing pin, left in the white.
Nothing else should have a serial number on it.
Given the above observations, I submit that the $2500 price tag is... optimistic.
