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Full length view of the Czech K98k along with issue bayonet, cleaning kit and chargers of ammunition.
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Reverse side, full length view.
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Receiver markings including czech firing proofs, serial number and the BRNO rollmark.
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Bolt body, note the matching serial number.
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Note that the cocking piece is electro-pencilled matching. It was likely replaced at the time the receiver was scrubbed and the rifle reblued.
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"2/7" marking on the buttstock. It is likely a rack number or unit marking. Note the kriegsmodel-style bolt takedown hole.
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Cupped buttplate serialized to the rifle. Also note the faint "2/7" stamping which has been mostly scrubbed. It was likely removed at refurb.
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Note the cocking piece and bolt shroud. No WW2 markings are evident.
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Note the German K98k style sling arrangement. The sling is original Czech manufacture from the late 1940's.
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Note the serial number on the bottom of the stock.
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Note the serial number on the bolt handle, coking piece and safety.
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Note the fine machining marks on the receiver ring. The ring was carefully and mechanically ground to remove the original Czech rampant lion crest, the outline of which is still faintly visible around the edges. The crest was removed at time of refurbishment, likely to make the rifle ready for foreign sale.
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Note the small rampant lion foring proofs on the barrel and receiver. The crossed swords are a military acceptance stamp indicating this rifle served in the Czech armed forces.
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Receiver Roll Stamp "Ceskoslovenská Zbrojovka, A.S., BRNO"
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Note the rear sight assembly. Essentially a normal late-war German K98k sight without reverse markings.
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German ww2 era maker's code on the rear sight base. "svd" and a waffenampt, Eagle 18. This shows that the czechs were using new and possibly recycled used Nazi era parts on their rifles well after the close of ww2 hostilities.
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Note the matching serial number on the stamped trigger guard.
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Note the czech stamped trigger guard, often erroneously referred to as an "arctic" or "winter" trigger guard. It is a hybrid design incorporating elements of the late Springfield M1903A3 trigger guard and the stamped late-war K98k German trigger guard.
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Note the large trigger guard bow, meant to make the use of gloves easier.
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recoil cross-bolt. Identical to the German K98k type.
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Rear sight ramp and spring.
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Unmarked reverse of the rear sight ladder. The slide is un-marked, but the button is WaA18 marked, making it a WW2 era part.
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Front barrel band, matching serial number applied.
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Rear barrel band stamped matching.
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Details of the clasp of the Czech K98k sling.
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Note the riveted sling loop. German ww2 slings loops, on the other hand, were sewn.
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stamped and welded front band. Note that it started life as a German kriegsmodel band, but the screw hole has been fileld with weld and ground down flush prior to blueing. The BRNO factory manufactured these for Nazi K98k rifles during WW2, so it stands to reason that a suply was in store at the BRNO factory.
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Rear band, stamped and welded construction. Note that it was a kriegsmodel part, but the screw hole has been welded up and dressed prior to blueing.
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Note the nose cap and bayonet lug, re-instituted as a standard rifle feature at the BRNO factory post-war after the Germans had cancelled the feature during kriegsmodel production.
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Front sight assembly. The original sight hood is missing, but it of the standard K98k type.
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Note the welded seam along the bottom of the front barrel band.
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"87" is marked into the buttstock. It's unknown what it signifies, probably it's a rack or inventory number.
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Details of the bolt body. Note that despite the fact the guide rib channel was machined into all Czech K98k receivers, probably to allow for parts interchangeability with other K98k's, the post-war bolt bodies did NOT incorporate the bolt guide rib. They also maintained the Nazi era kriegsmodel shortcuts of drilling round holes for gas relief.
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Note the stamped and welded magazine follower.
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Note the round gas escape holes, continued from a German wartime shortcut.
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Note the czech rampant lion proof on the bolt handle ball. This is the clear identifier for post-war czech bolt bodies.
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The issue K98k cleaning kit. Pullthrough, cleaning brush, oiler, bore brush and chamber brush.
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