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

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

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

R.I.P. K98

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

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.

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

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…

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.

Destroyer of history

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.

Thank you for showing the world what not to do.

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

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

What an actual masacre to a beautiful weapon.

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

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

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 :/

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

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

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

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

Never get an old military rifle ever again

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.

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

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 )

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 .

Yay, another destroyed Mauser...

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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....

Today I will tell you a story, how I've turned an authentic german rifle into a lame custom.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

You completly destroyed it

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

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

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.

What the hell did you do to such a perfect rifle

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

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!

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?

A crime committed right before your eyes.

Someone send this to Johnathan Ferguson and Ian from forgotten weapons and watch them have an aneurysm 😬

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

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="400">6:40</a> nononononono oh god nononononoooo

Wie kannst du so ein Gew98 nur verhunzen😢

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

Bubba would be proud haha

my german hearth is dead seeing this horror

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 .

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

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.

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

What!?! No way have you thrown that stock away! I really hope you’ve kept it and it was for the video!

Hurts to watch..

Great video but sporterizing just hurt my soul.

If you need a riffle - buy it. Do not destroy ancient guns!

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

This is a great example of what NOT to do with guns, the audacity

How coupd you even do this to an OG gewehr-98, thats not even K98k respect the histo man!.

Who would’ve thought I’d see a video of someone being a Bubba and sporterizing a rather rare Standard Modell commercial export K98k lol 😂

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

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

You destroyed one of the best bolt action rifles ever made...

It wa wa beutiful karabiner 98k and u wreck it

Completly destroyed a classic rifle :\

What the hell are you doing?

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

You destroyed it bro...

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

Ich konnte einfach nicht aufhören hinzuschauen. Sind Sie von Beruf Büchsenmacher ? Falls nicht, höchsten Respekt für dies Arbeit !

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…

Do us all a favor and put the original stock back on

IT WAS GREAT GUN. WAS.

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

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

Das ist keine Restaurierung. Bei einer Restaurierung wird alles im Originalen zustand belassen, dass hier ist ein Umbau.

Cant belive you destroy it..

that must be the most polite and ordered rust in the history of rusting, attacking every single atom of the build equally, and without clustering. such an even, clean, coat of rust,... that even the insides of the firing mechanism are rusted, with the wooden frame not even scratched.

Restoration 101: How not to restore a Kar98 like a hipster D-bag. Up next, we'll be scraping off that original wood material finish on a 150 year old desk with some spray paint can white we picked up from Walmart!

Das ist keine Restaurierung sondern die Zerstörung einer historischen Waffe.

Well now it's ruined

Piece of history bro

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.😢