m98 small ring, erfurt.

Whats the story on these again?

http://www.superfastcash.com/ebay_images/98er.jpg

Small ring receiver with a large ring barrel. Not much steel surrounding the threads, so they are not recommended for anything more powerful than the original chambering.

KurtC, weren't there 2 factories of origin for the small ring, large thread (Kar98) Mausers? Erfurt and ??Rodxxx? And wasn't one more desireable than the other? What is the difference in markings? I have a sporterized Kar98 in 7x57, Beuhler safety, Timney trigger, turned military barrel in a TINY walnut stock with rosewood foreend and grip cap. It weighs almost nothing. It feeds like pouring water thru a funnel. But, it doesn't group as good as I'd like and I'm building an '09 Argentine into a 7x57. So, I'm contemplating rebarreling it to .257 Roberts. I don't believe that chambering will be a problem. Do you?

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You are probably thinking of the Polish copies of the Kar98 made at the Radom factory in the 1920's. These are believed to be of inferior steel compared to the German made Erfurt carbines.

To my untrained eye it looks like a Model 1893 or 1895 Mauser receiver with a 98 bolt. Something put together due to the urgency of war? Is this something that the Turks rearsenaled along the way?

Hope somebody can tell us what this is.

It's definitely a 98 receiver. Look at the picture of the extraction cam on the rear bridge.

I posed the question of this rifle to the mauser collector types over at www.gunboards.com

Was told it's a German Kar98AZ / Kar98A, post 1919 re-issue.

Too bad bubba took a hacksaw to the stock.