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Now I know I'll never see a "sporterizing" video of an old, rare and historic weapon again.

RIP to that beautiful Mauser Karabiner 98 Kurz, Now it's just another rifle

First half of the video: ok cool he is restoring the glorious 98k😃👍🏻 Second half: NOOOO, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, YOU MONSTER 😭😭

You destroyed a piece of history, it was worth more as a relic.

R.I.P. K98

40+ years ago I bought a Mauser for the princely sum of $75 with the idea of "sporterizing" it. It was a genuine DWM marked, "Berlin 1916" with matching numbers. It had been crudely sporterized at some point in its past, which consisted of having the stock forward of the first barrel band chopped off. My plan was to polish the receiver to a near-perfect finish, re-barrel it, fit a curved bolt handle, new safety, and fit it into a nice walnut stock. Other things (e.g. marriage) got in the way, however, and I never got around even to starting the project, which is a good thing. Today, I still have the rifle as I bought it. The metal is fine with appropriate and honest wear, the markings and proof stamps are crisp, and I still get a kick out of that, "Berlin 1916." At that time the war was far from over, and it is quite likely some young man once depended on it to protect his life. I am so glad I never got around to my project, and the rifle, which will someday belong to one of my sons, has an honored place in our collection. Sometimes you are better off just leaving things alone.

My heart ached seeing him throw away the original stock. I would've liked to seen him get or make a synthetic stock of the exact same shape as the original. At least then a piece of history would have a new lease on life.

RIP to a rarer Banner model Mauser that could’ve still been worth a decent bit even as a stock mismatch. Thankfully we have another hunting rifle in the world now…

Sporterizing it was kinda a crime tbh, but at least he didn't shorten it.

I will never forgive the greatest generation for bringing these back from the war and sporterizing them

Rest in Peace to that beautiful piece of history. If you want a hunting rifle, go buy one

I normally love your videos, but it’s a damn shame to ruin a K98

Thank you for showing the world what not to do.

you broke my heart and got me teared up when you took a hacksaw to that bolt …and you threw the original stock away…8/10th’s of it’s life story gone right there…how could you

It pains my heart to see such a beautiful piece of history get turned into this rest in peace k98k

Great Job for the lost of a piece of history. Now, it's look like a hunter rifle......... What a shame.

Never get an old military rifle ever again

Dude, you completely desecrated a piece of history. This "restoration" is the gun equivalent of the ecce mono painting.

Nice job. You destroyed a good k98 rifle... Wtf is that bolt? And that stock?

What an actual masacre to a beautiful weapon.

STOP SPORTERISATION OF THESE PRICELESS RELICS! They aren’t as common. Do us all a favour. Take your money and reverse your crime. Vintage warfare has said this and loads of gun tubers have too! Do not sporterise vintage rifles! For heavens sake and in the name of all the gods that may smite you. Just STOP. You want to a hunting rifle or a sporting rifle? BUY ONE! They are cheaper than ruining a piece of history. I swear I’m going to have a stroke.

Broke my heart to see even this K 98 mauser cut and drilled. It's real value is its history and authenticity as a service rifle, not as a sporter. There are a lot better sporting rifles available that don't have collector's value. Alas....

This poor K98. Someone needs to stop this dude before he finds another - seriously.

I really liked the volcanic welding and big shitty voids in the bolt handle work you did. Frickin' awesome work, Bubba.

This is just utter destruction… this is so upsetting and just made me cry it went from a museum worthy piece to a piece of crap you would find at a gun buy back

My lord, i was expecting a restoration, not destroying history. I know its your property and you can do whatever you want to it but...... come on, it hasn't lasted 100 years just to get cut up and ruined :/

it saddens me to see history get destroyed, either destroy it or make it like the way it was back in its day.

Several years ago when my grandfather passed away, he passed onto me a German 8 mm Mauser that he brought back with him from the war along with original ammunition from 1941. It makes me sad to see this gun change from its original state to a double trigger. I still value my grandfather’s rifle and keep it in working condition. I’ve shot it bunches of times . It’s a strong rifle and even if you ran out of bullets the weapon it’s self was build so solid you can use it as a club and do major damage . You need to either talk when your point at things so we know what your thinking or put sub titles . There are lots of people that have no clue when your just pointing or tapping on something .

Ok, I've read the comments and watched the video all the way through, and I'm gonna throw my opinion out there. The old stock definitely needed replacement, the wood was cracking in multiple places. I wouldn't have thrown it away myself, but whatever. The new stock seemed a little out of theme, mainly due to the etching on it. The choice to bend the bolt makes complete sense due to wanting to mount modern scopes on it. My personal choice would have been to keep it as an infantry rifle, but that's not my call. As for the restoration of the rifle internals, he did a great job! They look brand fucking new! So while I don't agree with every choice made, at the end of the day, it's not my rifle, the man can do whatever the fuck he wants to do with it.

personally I saw this title and thought "huh K98 Restoration, sounds cool". After clicking on the video and seeing it says sporterize, I lost my shit... That gun is a priceless piece of history, and I know people that would **Crucify** you for doing this to a K98. I suggest you watch your back for those people. All the reenactors will agree with me as well, especially because of the rise in price for these pieces of history. So to end my little rant, Screw you.

You did a good thing by fixing up the barrel action but then you turned around did a complete 180 and destroyed it by sporterizing the stock

Yay, another destroyed Mauser...

It was an absolute crime that you restored this piece of history It was more valuable the way it sat than it did when you cleaned it up You killed the value of the weapon

Such a shame; it’s a Mauser “Standard Modell”, likely made for export. They’re fairly rare, and are historically interesting for the role they played in Germany’s post T of V rearmament. It’s a shame that this knucklehead butchered one right here in front of us; here in the U.S., we refer to such “craftsmen” as “Bubbas”. As an alternative, he could have repaired the stock, boiled, carded, and lubricated the metal (without additional bluing solution), and preserved it’s historic value. It would’ve functioned just as well as the monstrosity he just cobbled together, and it would be worth $400 - $500, rather than $200 as a “sporterized” example.

IT'S JUST HORRIBLE !!! YOU JUST DESTROY A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF HISTORY !!!

If you had left the rifle as it was after restoting it, it'd be worth more than any crappy sport rifle you'd ever find. Why would you also destroy historical items?

Destroyer of history

this is what we call a "bubba" conversion. sporterizing a historical rifle, what a waste. that bolt handle looks so atrocious.

You can say what you say but this is destroying history, you can also say "there are millions of those made, it doesnt serve a purpose and it doesn't matter if one gets destroyed" but all of those are very very valuable and none of them are not meant to be destroyed. My respect to every even little part of history and every soldier who fought for their peoples freedom ( even germans )

As a French polisher and resurfacing technician .. when he trow that wood, it made me mad that you could restor perfectly and keep this authentic. This is like u asking me to remake your antique desk, and I put a top from IKEA.

You destroyed it bro...

you just destroy a piece of history....

That's not restoration. That's stupid modification.

A Gewehr 98, a masterpiece, turned into a wannabe, out of shape, cut up “Kar98k” over 130 year old rifle turned into something it’s not.😢

I throw up when he cut and bent the bolt handle I can't watch anymore 😪

Great job now it looks like every other sniper on the market

Title should be: K98 restoration and then destruction. Im gonna restore this K98 then ruin it

weapon like this should be in a museum... not sporterized

What the hell are you doing?

No wonder you can’t find these priceless relics anywhere, cause idiots like these take them and destroy them for a few clicks and views on KZfaq…I hate this…

A crime committed right before your eyes.

You completly destroyed it

It hurts to see a piece of history get mutilated like that

There is a special place in hell for people who sporterize perfectly good rifles that just need a little love to bring them back to their former glory

"How to turn a $1,000 rusted rifle to a $300 hunting rifle!"

if you really threw away that stock you made a big mistake

I think this was a waste of whatever this is and you should have preserved this gun for its natural beauty just saying why even do that to that gun there's brand new guns that one that was an original thing what a waste it's not it's not even that gun anymore it's something else it really was a priceless piece of art

The pinnacle of creativity. It is not the painters and sculptors who are called artists. Rather, what you are doing in terms of restoration is also art. Greetings to you, your brother Muhammad from southern Iraq.

my german hearth is dead seeing this horror

Был прекраснейший Маузер нуждающейся только в чистке, а теперь его превратили в кал. Печально...

Who quit watching when he through the perfect wood furniture in the trash, he is wrong for that.

Good job you restored it and then ruined it. Turned a $2000 rifle into $300

Completly destroyed a classic rifle :\

HOW DARE YOU TO PUT 70% OF A K98 IN A TRASHCAN

What the hell did you do to such a perfect rifle

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!

Ok, someone explain to me, why is sporterization a thing? Why are we turning unique looking rifles into the same ones that all look lik Remington 700s? Like, just get a sporter rifle, stop ruining historical firearms

All that hard work and craftsmanship to restore a piece of history, and the destroy that piece of history by sporterizing. You have a genuine talent to bring historical piece back from the grave and this is what you do to it. That's just disrespectful and disappointing, what a waste. Please don't sporterize historically pieces in the future.

Its sad to see a piece of history turn into that because before it was a piece of crap it was a rare early k98 probably one of the first ones

All that time and craftsmanship and you stick weld the bolt handle?

Do not EVER mess with a piece of history like this ever again

Bubba would be proud haha

Your gun your stuff yes. BUT. WHY. You completely destroyed a timeless gun. And you even threw away the original wood!? If you wanna change it, at least keep it. I died 100 deaths over this video 😫

A historic military rifle turned into some fudd's deer rifle. Such a waste.

Hurts to watch..

Пока смотрю это видео уже дошел до шестой минуты и столько вопросов возникло. Например мне стало очень интересно, когда вы сделали отверстия для кронштейна оптического прицела. Неужели у вас есть оригинал или копия оптического шестикратного немецекого прицела ZF? В любом случае я заинтригован, продолжаю смотреть дальше. Ну и очень хотелось бы чтобы вы заменили деревяную ложе на стандартный классический вариант. Как закончу смотреть дополню комментарий. Upd: Я полностью посмотрел это видео и финал меня очень расстроил. Зачем надо было портить оригинальный немецкий маузера переделав из него охотничью винтовку? Ладно, с оптическим прицелом все понятно, достать оригинал в наше время почти что не выполнимая задача. Но деревянное ложе (приклад и цевьё) винтовки можно было бы подобрать, да и спусковой механизм оставить каким он был изначально. Ну что больше всего меня расстроило, так это то, что вы решили погнуть стебель затвора, понимаю прямой не очень устраивает, раз уж решили его гнуть, то зачем надо было его гнуть именно таким образом? Можно было бы добиться более правильного угла наклона как у оригинала, добиваясь сходства. В общем от оригинальной винтовки мало что осталось, но реставрация определенно хороша. За старания лайк. Но то что вы убили коллекционный предмет, этого я не могу понять.

Turn a Gerwehr 98 into a Kar 98.... Thank you for destroying it piece of History

Cant belive you destroy it..

La patina della canna e il cambio di angolo della maniglia dell'otturatore sono fantastici. Eccellente.👏👏👏👏

IT WAS GREAT GUN. WAS.

I didn't read the sporterize part of the title. I was thinking why did they throw away the stock? thinking maybe they would have a new like for like replacement. Instead you basically made a piece of history into the same many 1-300 dollar sporterized WW2 rifles that already exist.

That was an amazing job perfectly functional it’s not a hanging wall riffle no more

Honestly when you brought the saw out and destroyed that bolt I was disgusted. F

It wa wa beutiful karabiner 98k and u wreck it

how to destroy a historic rifle in a video

I was like this is cool, and then I saw a drill bit plow through the receiver 😳

I understand the compassion some have for old rifles but you got to admit the man has talent, I have always admired someone that has the patient and knowledge to do something like this .

Great video but sporterizing just hurt my soul.

rip. a part of history

I was saddened by the finished product, but I can't deny the quality of the work put into it.

It’s not my place to be mad but the wood held so much history why did you just throw it away like that?

I can't believe you took a hacksaw to the bolt handle... I think you need to look up the meaning of 'restoration'. This sure isn't that.

The sporterizing made me cringe

Podle mne se jedná o dvě zbraně ! Celé video je takový filmový podvod !!!

So satisfying watching the video. The master at work

I love Kar98k’s and this really kills me on the inside. This is why people have trust issues

A shame what u did with the woodwork… its history man. But… great craftsmanship..

I have an original K98, all parts matching with all the Nazi markings and proof markings. It was rusted up pretty good, and the wooden stock soiled. No pitting, though. I've been working on it here and there to restore it. 1938. I did a bunch of work over the years for free for a neighbor, who fell off his roof putting up Christmas lights and became a paraplegic in a wheelchair. Before he moved away, he gifted me with this rifle. He said that his grandfather had taken it off a Nazi soldier who he killed during WWII. What a gift!