K98 cleaning rod?

[yoopercollector]

I got this cleaning rod with a K98 DOT 44. It doesn't screw in, the threads are wrong. I was wondering if anyone might be able to tell me what rifle it might go to? A US 8-32 nut will fit on the threads. It is about 12.25 inches long. The threads have been cleaned up with a file. Thanks

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[Aragorn243]

Before you decide the threads are wrong, make sure the bolt in the stock isn't clogged full of gunk. I spent 20 minutes two nights ago trying to get a VZ24 rod screwed in. Kept pulling goo out with each insertion. Kept at it and it finally took hold.

[yoopercollector]

It didn't work on my K43 either. I bought an original rod and that one screwed right into both the K98 and K43. I was thinking this came from a different kind of rifle. Maybe a mauser used by another country. It was on the dot44 when I bought it but the rod barely caught the first thread.

[WarPig1976]

Maybe the previous owner did what I did and bought the longer rod by mistake and being a cheap bustard cut and threaded it. It's a shameful and Bubba like thing to use electrical tape wrapped around the rod to hold it in place, but.....

Never mind, yours is the long one...

[Aragorn243]

It kind of looks like a carcano rod.

[yoopercollector]

I know nothing about carcanos. How long are their cleaning rods? This one has the threads in the end to screw rods together also.

[Aragorn243]

Carcano cleaning rods for the short rifle and carbine come in two lengths. They also screw together. Krag rifles also screw together. If if is a carcano, it would be for the carbine, they use two. Short rifles use three sections. Krag rifles use 3. I don't think it's a krag. I suggest a web search, they should tell you lengths.

[browningautorifle]

No, it's not a Krag rod.

[yoopercollector]

I have a Krag with original rods and it isn't one of those, they a shorter. I looked up Carcano rods on Liberty Tree, their Carcano rods are 9 3/8 inch, 6 inch and over 25 inch long.

[Aragorn243]

It would be nice if there were a book on cleaning rods. I had a rod I was trying to ID for a good while. It DID turn out to be a Krag section. It was stuck in a Chilean Mauser I got in exchange for some work. Pretty sure is it not Chilean, they are straight with the same size head as the rod.