Some of the 30,000 98's surrendered by Germany in Norway after the surrender.

[the watcher]

I may have one of those, a converted sporter I bought from a co worker in the '60s who didn't want it. I think I gave him 75$ for it, rechambered in 30 06 with a timmney trigger turned bolt and new stock. It had a redfield scope on it, and I never replaced it for 100 yard shots here in Virginia. The trigger is amazing and it groups well, just don't use it.

 

[JGalt]

I may have one of those, a converted sporter I bought from a co worker in the '60s who didn't want it. I think I gave him 75$ for it, rechambered in 30 06 with a timmney trigger turned bolt and new stock. It had a redfield scope on it, and I never replaced it for 100 yard shots here in Virginia. The trigger is amazing and it groups well, just don't use it. View attachment 1106436

Wow! That stack would amount to a huge fortune by today's prices. I bought a mint 98k in 1967 by mail order. It was $15 and cost something like $5 USPS postage right to the door.

Took it over to a friend's house and we shot it once in his parent's basement. It took a big chunk out of the concrete wall and we got in trouble for it.

 

[1srelluc]

A boatload were converted to .30-06 in Norway for their use.


Norway's captured Karabiner 98k rifles were soon superseded as a standard issue
weapon by the US M1 Garand, but remained in service as Norwegian Home Guard weapons until at least the 1970s.

They were rebarreled for the Garand's .30-06 Springfield round, with a small cutout in the receiver so that the slightly longer US round could still be loaded with stripper clips.

These Norwegian conversions had a section of the receiver flattened on the upper left side, where a new serial number (with a prefix denoting the branch of service) was stamped.

Some of these rifles conversions were rechambered again to 7.62 mm NATO, but this program was canceled with only a few thousand converted when Norway adopted the AG-3 (H&K G3) as a replacement for both the Garand and the K98k.

Some actions from Mauser Karabiner 98k left by German armed forces in 1945 were used by Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk (currently Kongsberg Small Arms) for building both military and civilian sniper/target rifles under the Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk Skarpskyttergevær M59 - Mauser M59 and Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk Skarpskyttergevær M67 - Mauser M67 designations. These rifles were used by the Norwegian armed forces up to the 2000s.

Norwegian K98kF1 Repurposed Mauser - Forgotten Weapons

https://utreon.com/v/YIIvfCRlpmc At the end of When Germany capitulated in 1945, there were nearly 400,000 German soldiers in Norway (largely thanks to the efforts of the Norwegian Resistance to prevent them from being transferred south). This provided Norway with a massive supply of K98k Mauser...

www.forgottenweapons.com

 

[the watcher]

I don't know who did the work on mine, but it is pretty good. No iron sights, and a different safety like on a winchester, and a hinged floor plate. There isn't any checkering but it feels good to me. I had a model 70 then in .257 roberts then and I really liked it, it was a tack driver, so I usually carried that or a 94 that is in .32 special if the area was thick, so I didn't hunt with it a lot. It is a great mountain rifle though.

 

[1srelluc]

I don't know who did the work on mine, but it is pretty good. No iron sights, and a different safety like on a winchester, and a hinged floor plate. There isn't any checkering but it feels good to me. I had a model 70 then in .257 roberts then and I really liked it, it was a tack driver, so I usually carried that or a 94 that is in .32 special if the area was thick, so I didn't hunt with it a lot. It is a great mountain rifle though.

If from Norway it was likely in .30-06 when it entered the country.....If not then just a sporterized K98....Hell, Sears was selling them back in the day.

Back When Sears Sold Commercial Mauser Rifles

Now in my senior citizen years, I finally have my first Belgian manufactured FN commercial 98 Mauser rifle, and good old Sears made it just for me.

www.ammoland.com

 

[the watcher]

If from Norway it was likely in .30-06 when it entered the country.....If not then just a sporterized K98....Hell, Sears was selling them back in the day.

I didn't mean to imply that, just that just that I had a converted one. I bought a .30 carbine for 75$ that was surplus in the late 60's. That stuff was everywhere.

 

[JGalt]

I don't know who did the work on mine, but it is pretty good. No iron sights, and a different safety like on a winchester, and a hinged floor plate. There isn't any checkering but it feels good to me. I had a model 70 then in .257 roberts then and I really liked it, it was a tack driver, so I usually carried that or a 94 that is in .32 special if the area was thick, so I didn't hunt with it a lot. It is a great mountain rifle though.

Many of those WW2 vet bringback rifles were converted to wildcat cartridges. I've seen more than several Japanese Type 38 6.5mm Arisakas that were converted to .257 Roberts.

 

[1srelluc]

I didn't mean to imply that, just that just that I had a converted one. I bought a .30 carbine for 75$ that was surplus in the late 60's. That stuff was everywhere.

LOL....$1200 is the bottom for a shooter grade USGI M1 Carbine now.

I'm sitting on an excellent I-Cut Inland (Overton) stock set I'm waiting to find a carbine for a more reasonable price to put in it.

 

[the watcher]

$75 was a month's rent or a car payment in 1971