Sawn off K98

[mrclark303]

Hi all, a happy new year to all my fellow milsurpers

Here's an interesting one, I follow a group on FB who excavate interesting war time relics from across Europe. Always interesting to see what's dug up from the battlefields.

One such piece is a heavily cut down K98, I would estimate to about 12" barrel.

Now, those who have experience shooting the Alpine K98, with full fat 7.92x57 mm, will know it's recoil is not particularly pleasant.

The relic hunter appears to imply that it was common practice to cut down K98s ( as per this relic) for close fighting.

I am going to call bullshit on this, because the recoil would be absolutely ferocious and unshootable in my opinion, probably get a foot long flame out of it too...

I'm guessing a simple broken barrel from a close artillery blast.

Opinions guys?