When you think "wow thats a nice numbers matching rifle" and then he keeps pulling out more

Best video on the evolution of Mauser rifles on the internet. Thank you for for creating this

The front stock endcaps/barrel bands also changed from finely machined to just flat solid rings like your kriegs model to save time and expense in manufacturing.

This is a great video. Just what I was looking for. Thanks for doing it; very informative.

Super jelly of your collection. I have a matching stock receiver and barrel S/42 38. Love that rifle. Holding it gives me a euphoric feeling. Not many would understand.

Such a informative video. thank you very much for uploading this. I think the mauser rifles are probably the most beatiful rifle ever designed.

Excellent video as always. I would like that Gew98 in my collection!

Particularly loved the K98A, always wanted one, hard to find in good shape and not so expensive that the wife notices.

Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge complete with beautiful examples from your collection. I have enjoyed many of your excellent videos on the various milsurp topics.

Really great informative video. Thanks so much!!

Very nice job with the video - I learned a lot

thanks for your information, in 5:36, I find out mine one is updated G98, I think it was k98b before. thank you again.

Great video! Huge fan of the mauser rifles. So many different countries made them! I don't yet have a German mauser. Ive got a yugo m48A which is a great shooter, very high quality but it doesn't have the same collectibility as a German one. I want to get a couple some day. This video helped a lot to understand what I'm looking for. Now that I've finally got an m1 garand, it's time to start looking for a nice k98k!

Great program,I love those guns!

Thank you. This was very informative

What a great collection you have. Beautiful rifles.

Thank you - well done great video.

Thanks for the very informative video!

Excellent information. I purchased a 1940 front hood sight that has the eagle and swastika stamped on every metal part. I wanted to start collecting back in 2005 so that's when I got it for $200! And back then I could find 8mm Mauser ammo everywhere for $12 a box. So I did shoot it a lot and I saved all the brass just in case. Guess I'm learning how to reload. That 8mm does hit hard.

Excellent info 👍

Love your channel! Good job!

So much information! Thank You.

Keep making videos and you’ll be one of the greats 👍🏻

Wow, how many Mauser rifles do you have?? Nice video, good to see the evolution of the K98K!!

Thanks for this, been trying to figure out why my 98K didn't have the metal hole in the stock and couldn't find an answer till now.

Very interesting! Sub’d! I only have a 1943 Mitchell’s Mauser rifle, and I know it’s not a collector, however it shoots great, and I can use all your (former video) tips on it ref let the bolt knock out the stripper, loads 6 rounds, catch the round at the bolt, and to unload just work the bolt back and forth without turning it. Great job and I love these vids! Thanks!

Wow! Thanks for the very informative video. I always wondered about the flat butt plate vs the cupped butt plate and now I know. :)

I've got a Turkish, '37 Standard Gewehr 98, and that thing is an absolute beast. I envy you and your large collection of Mauser '98 and K98 rifles, hopefully one day I can have accrue that many of these fantastic rifles.

Great video

Excellent info.

Yes we're all pretty happy with this rifle, he actually had 2 that he gave to my Dad, Dad gave 1 to my cousin, (My uncle son) , kept the other. I've since inherited this one and have researched and found a bunch of accessories, even found a grenade launcher ( I think Spanish or maybe Portugese). Now that the internet, it much easier real glad to subscribe to your channel. Thanks for doing this.

Thanks, very informative.

Thank you, very informative and comprehensive. You have an awesome collection. I definitely want to have a Mauser in my collection which comprises of just one nice almost pristine Mosin Nagant. I keep looking at the gun sites but these Mausers have steadily climbed in value. Perhaps in the next life.

Thank you very much. I've learned a lot.

I would have liked more detailed closeups of the rifles. Great video!

Very informative vid!!

This rifle just amazes me for some odd reason. I see it as important as the discovery of black powder that’s how revolutionary I think the Mauser system is

This is great info. I think I'm gonna end up buying even more Mauser rifles.

Very informative , my K98 is 1944 marked all round but has the take down disc . late military order model , i didnt know that . thanks again .

Fantastic video

Very good. Thanks.

Thanks for the education!!!!!

I have a serious love for this weapon. Not only did it revolutionize warfare but were so simple and reliable. This will always be my first love.

Nice collection and very interesting . I found this researching WW2 Tanks lol . I have an amazing Mauser that my Dad purchased as a kid . It is Spanish made , Sharing and lacking some of these features . The stamp on the top says 1954 . I shot it a few times with 50's lead tip and late 70's fmj and was surprised how accurate it was at 300 m (13 outta 20 with very HOT Greek ammo ) I just thought would see if you knew anything about it or post war varients

Thanks! some interesting info. My Dad's bring-back is a matching # 1943 Spreewerk and has the bolt disassembly ring in the butt. Original sling, knife bayo (point/very tip snapped off) and "Prince Albert can" cleaning kit. Still some original grease in the cleaning can, looks like axle thick grease. Came sans sight hood and cleaning rod tho it has the hole to put one in. Dad told me the Germans usually threw those out. It's a nice shooting rifle but the stock shows it's age and has some real dings in it. I grew up shooting it and have been offered some real $$$ for it, of course I turned it down. I have no kids to give it to and it needs to be in a museum where it will be preserved.... It's taken a few deer... Thanks again, Dun

Love your video...great information and awesome displays. I would like to see though, your pop-ups stay on the screen longer. As you describe something, the picture seems to just flash and I find I have to go back and pause to do comparisons, but then lose your knowledgeable narrative. Thank you for posting.

Very informative video. I have a Polish wz29 by Radom dated 1937. Looks a lot like the 98 AZ model. I hope you do a video on them.

"Bomber" Harris: "That's a finely crafted rifle you got there, Germany. It'd be a shame if someone made you... simplify it."

Great video.

nice channel. good job. Enjoyed...

I love the midwar models the 41,42 and early 43 i would agree are the pinnacle

Great video, excellent work!! 👍👍 I actually own a 1941 Mauser K98-K out of Oberndorf (100% matching numbers) which might have been produced within the same month or even the same week as your 1941 model, since it bears a very close serial number: 7600. Might even have been on the same truck 😁😁... Keep up the good work, greetings from Good old Germany!!

Thank you, helped me identify my stock I just got for free. It’s a late model k98k

I have a BYF44 and converted to a 308 sporting deer rifle love it very accurate.

Wow that K98A is absolutely gorgeous.

awsome, thanks.

Very nice sir

Big fan of mauser here , I have multiples Kar98k , 2 G98 and my favorite a Kar98a 1917 Erfurt , that still works fine

I just got a Yugo captured Kar98 with scope and I can't wait to pick her up once she's shipped.

Learned a lot. Thank you.

Just picked up a "dou 45" and noticed some of the regular features missing, I then did more research on the dou rifles... At first I thought I had been cheated but now, I'm happy because this was the cheapest k98k they had in the store! I was getting worried. Thanks for the video man. Looks like I really lucked out with this one.

I’ve got a Yugoslavian Mauser 24/47 all matching numbers my favourite hunting rifle

Still very helpfull, thanks! I‘m about to buy a Mauser K98 K and there is so many crappy or wrong labeled stuff out there.

thank you

Love these rifles. I’m trying to get one from every wartime year. Missing 1939,40,45

You should make a video going over Glue types and sight hood variations.

More K98 videos please!

14:19 Cool to see a sister of my all matching BYF 41 BB block. I have the 6543 BB here in the Netherlands. Mine is Luftwaffe marked on the stock.

Hey man! No new videos? Thanks for this one. Yours is the only one I've seen explaining the different versions of the K98. I have a Turk Gew98 in the rollercoaster sights and a BYF 43 K98. Question: I've seen Gew98s without the rollercoaster sights. Where those changed to be used in WWII?

Awesome

That BYF 41 is beautiful.

Great video! I have a Yugo capture k98k and was wondering what your thoughts were on them? And if you had one could you do a video on it as well as looking at internal markings(underside of the barrel). Thanks!

Thank you. Now I know what the machined button is on the stock.

I have a chda marked Banner K from 34, only 10,000 made with this mark. They were made for the SA.

Nice video kar 98 k mauser thanks

Karabiner mausers also stands the location of sling swivel location on the side. Karabiner 98k is also similar to Czech vz 24 rifles and Polish Mauser Radom. Mauser 33/40 is inspired by Czech rifles too. Anyway mauser rifles are fine weapons with a lot of history. For example action length (3/4 length M48), cock on close early mausers, chinese copies, chilean, argentine, russian capture, ammo pouches etc.

After WWII, my father-in-law brought the Model 98 Mauser Kriegsmodell back from Linz, Austria where his 11th Armored Division ended the war. Research showed that the stamp at the top of the receiver "Mod. 98 bnz 1945" indicates a 1945 date made made by Steyr, (Code BNZ), which is a small town near Linz, Austria. The Nazi authorities had incorporated the armament industry into the vast Reichswerke Hermann Göring conglomerate, including the construction of the Steyr-Münichholz subcamp of forced labourers, part of the Mauthausen slave labor (concentration camp) network. As a major producer of arms and military vehicles during World War II, Steyr became a target of Allied bombing raids to knock out its factories. In two major attacks by the US Fifteenth Air Force during the "Big Week" on 23 and 24 February 1944, much of the town was badly damaged, but the factories continued to function until near the end of the war. The city was a meeting point on 9 May 1945, when units of the 5th Guards Airborne of the Red Army and black troops of the US 761st Tank Battalion along with the 71st Infantry Division contacted each other on the bridge over the Enns River. My conclusion is that my father-in-law, and probably other GIs took home these last ditch models from the factories. Thanks for informing us about the mauser 98 rifles.

That long is so well balanced, it's looks like floating on his hand

Do you have any tips on how to identify a k98k as far as where it came from and what not if there's no markings except the serial number on the receiver

Very interesting,,

Excellent video . The 98az is a large ring action ,with a 98az specific trigger guard . Its not a small ring like a 91,93,95,96 pattern. Hence the 98 in 98az.

I hsve the byf44 no finger groove but the serial numbers don't match. Did they just start slapping them together at the end of the war. Not paying attention to serial numbers? Or is it a franken rifle?

What is your take on the 42 bcd. I recently was given one and can't find alot of info. Thanks in advance

Hail Mary throw question if one of you guys can answer it. I have a CE44 in a "semi-kriegmodel" stock. Some of it is mismatched, but the cupped butt stock plate matches the receiver serials. Am I correct in assuming that this was not the original stock? I haven't been able to find any data on CE (JP Sauer) produced Kreigs.

I’m trying to add a k98k to my collection. Where do you recommend I look? Is there a website like civilian marksmanship program that sells them?

Just curious, are any of your rifles cut below the second barrel band I have a 1942 DOU Gewer that my uncle brought back from WW2, that has been cut under the barrel band, I was told that's the only they would fit a foot locker, it is also numbers matching except for the cleaning rod , serial #2190, I have most all of the books on the Maurer. Btw enjoyed your video, too.

I just looked at a byf 44 that had the flat milled buttplate and a takedown disk. Could that be correct for that rifle? All the numbers matched on the rifle.

I’ve got a sporterized Mauser that we bought from an old hermit gunsmith in the 80’s. Not sure it’s original origin, as I don’t see much for legible markings on it. It does have an eagle, and I believe “Belgique.” Somewhere on the receiver. The eagle is partly covered by the 40mm optic mount. That old man we bought it from built it, so I’m sure it’s a Frankenstein of various models. He was probably in his 80’s when we bought it from him. He just lived alone in a 10x15 shack and built guns and sold them.

Have a miss matched k98 from mid war and the on my Stock in the cutt out for the Bolt or bolt Groove whatever it is called there is a number 3 stamped in the wood. Any idea what this ment?

Do you think all the receive for one Mauser fit into another Mauser Please let me know

I have a Brno Kar98k cant find much info on these rifles.. It does have late war features like the hole drilled into the cup plate, plywood stock, no cleaning rod, and even the front band is simple and uglier than the usual nice “H Band..” There is a bayonet lug and the wood isn’t ugly and unfinished like the german late war k98.. The top of the receiver is grounded so idk the date but im assuming 1945.. So im wondering if the Czechs were forced to make these rifles for the Germans till the end? I also have a brand new looking Brno VZ24 Romanian Contract and its my favorite bolt action. The Czechs made very good guns.

Great video man I would love to shoot some Mauser up in north Florida with you guys

Very Nice K98 collection. I have the same 1937 but mine has the triple nazi eagles on one side and 2 on the other. I think 37 was a transition year where some of the like yours had the older eagle symbols. Its cool that your has 1 swastika eagle on the right side. That take down hole. I also heard that it was used for Hanging the rifles on wall pegs in the barracks as well as helping with the bolt disassembly.

Is it anywhere Where you Can buy one in 8x57 JS/is that locks good i would love to have one as a huntingrifle

I'd never heard of the AZ before. How many did they make?

I got a K98k this past Christmas, it's an SWP 45 Kriegsmodell. Those are rare and desirable, so I've heard.

Where you at in north Florida? I’m in Orlando. You ever go to the Ocala rifle range?

First time doing this I have a k 98 AZ SPORTIFIED. Looking for for information on this rifle

I've got a 40. I love it to death.

I found a german mauser for sale . It has somekind of flip up style rear sights and its a super short rifle. im thinking of getting it. He said its 7 mm .