Gew 98 input please.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

I feel quite fortunate to have stewardship of this one. Tis a thing of beauty.Now if I can get my 03 up and running I have a foundation for a WWI collection.

[WarPig1976]

You just cleaned it, looks way better now and your happy that's what counts. Let those other clowns leave shellac and dirt on their "highly valuable" rifles.


"Nuts"

[Aragorn243]

I don't worry too much about other peoples opinions on cleaning my guns. I want them to look like they did when they were used, not after sitting in storage for 50 years after an arsenal refurb or after Bubba did something to them.

I don't plan to sell them either so the only worries there are that my family can get a decent return out of them.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

I don't plan to sell them either so the only worries there are that my family can get a decent return out of them.

I only wish I had someone in the next generation of my family who shared my interest in history rather than $. But alas not so lucky.

[Aragorn243]

I'm sort of in the same boat. I have two daughters and a son in law but none of them have a real interest in my particular hobby. They all like to shoot but more modern stuff, hunting class so to speak. I expect most will be sold if I don't have a grandchild or more by that time. My son in law has shot a few of them but is recoil shy so doesn't like it much. My daughters will shoot pretty much anything that has a scope on it but no scope, not much interest.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

I am not even sure someone will preserve the actual momentos of my familes service.
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I will do my best to impress upon my neices and nephews the significance of the presevation of individual service with a view to the bigger importance of the history itself

[Aragorn243]

I never got into this with the thought of passing them on. I personally love history and love to share it which is why I collect them. I put on a hands on show one a year and really enjoy that. I may get more involved as I have more time but I'm not of that generation and none of this was handed down to me so they are just "things". I am pretty careful on how I spend because I always have it in the back of my mind that these will be sold someday, probably not by me but by my surviving family and I don't want to hurt them at that time. I don't have a lot of family that fought in either war, somehow they just managed to miss them due to age, etc. I have ancestors who fought in in the Civil War and the Revolutionary war (on both sides) but only one uncle that I know of in WWII. He was a waist gunner in a B-17 that enlisted when he was 17 but still managed to be so young the war was over before he got to England and they never shipped them to the Pacific.

My family will take care of the items I'm sure and does know enough about them to make sure they find good homes but there just isn't much attachment for them and I don't blame them.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

My family will take care of the items I'm sure and does know enough about them to make sure they find good homes but there just isn't much attachment for them and I don't blame them.

I suppose we are in the same boat. I have documented my small collection pretty with known details and purchase price so those who will dispose of them will have a place to start. I will try to impress the fact that I wnat them to have a good home.In reality it will not matter at that point but if they can reassure me now I will sleep better.

New drama on the Gew 98. I disassembled the bolt last night only to have the rusted tip of the firing pin broke off. Anyone have a good source for the correct firing pin? The good news is it is only the second part I have found that is not numbered to the rifle. A bit of reasearch indicates fireing pins are interchangeable on the Gew 98 and K98. Is this correct?

[Patrick Chadwick]

A bit of reasearch indicates fireing pins are interchangeable on the Gew 98 and K98. Is this correct?

Yes...
According to the table on P.215 of "The Mauser Bolt Actions"by Jerry Kuhnhausen, the Gew.98 and K98 should be the same. Overall length 7.337", for the standard action body length.

but...
some other members of the M98 family had different firing pin lengths (e.g. for intermediate length and commercial actions).

So be careful to specify the length when ordering! Something recycled from Yugoslavia, for instance, might not fit.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Yes...
According to the table on P.215 of "The Mauser Bolt Actions"by Jerry Kuhnhausen, the Gew.98 and K98 should be the same. Overall length 7.337", for the standard action body length.

but...
some other members of the M98 family had different firing pin lengths (e.g. for intermediate length and commercial actions).


So be careful to specify the length when ordering! Something recycled from Yugoslavia, for instance, might not fit.

Thanks! I knew someone would keep me on the right track.
Liberty tree has some @ $30 if I cannot find one for less. I am anixious to shoot her.