k98 serial number prefix

[kar98k]

Yugoslavia reworked 98ks like Russia. to a lesser extent, though. the serial number prefix would be their work.

[surpman1911]

So the yugos stamped the J in front of the serial nubers? The J is only stamped on the serial numbers on the bolt and the receiver. there is no J in front of the serial number on the floor plate or the stock even though they have matching numbers.

[kar98k]

pics would help, but if it is a yugo rework, yes. there would be no serial number prefixes on the floor plate or stock anyway (and the Germans didn't put the serial number on the left side of the stock. it was either under the butt or in the barrel channel).

[surpman1911]

here are some pictures. sorry they got a little stretched or something and rotated. The picture I took of the serial number on the stock didn't upload but it has no J and it is stamped on the left side of the stock behind the bolt takedown hole but the nubers do match.

[WarPig1976]

The font is Yugoslavian....


"Nuts"

[kar98k]

yep, yugoslavian numbers

[surpman1911]

These aren't the actual serial numbers from the factory?

[kar98k]

no. they were put there post war by the Yugoslavians. the Germans didn't number bolts that way either. and the Germans put the serial number on the left side of the receiver.

[surpman1911]

I didn't know that the Yugoslavians put new serial numbers on the guns they reworked.

[kar98k]

they did. scrubbed, cleaned and renumbered.