

Purchased from person who was selling off collection from his father who was from Hungary. The scope mount differs noticably from modern reproductions both in shape and finish. Rifle in very good to excellent overall condition. Very clear optics with original type scope covers. Wood would be considered excellent !! ZF4 scope by Voitlander (ddx) is also very good with the engraved marking of KZF* on leftt side. Rifle is in very good original condition with good bore & much of the bluing remaining. These rifles were considered to be experimental & very few originals are known to exist highest scope mounts numbers recorded during KCN collection of information for backbone of the Wehrmacht was #30 but the opinion was & according to German information available many more were probable made. K98k/MSA Firearm Forums > All > MSA Sniper Rifle Forum > ss k98 sniper rifle. Has the ultra rare swept mount(No 88 base & No 88 scope mount). Authentic SS sniper rifles like a SS short side rail K98k or a high turret version will put you back at least 10 to 12k.#118 – This 1944 Sauer (CE) sniper rifle came from a Hungarian collection and looks to be all original. Real SS rifles are very expensive and you'll find that most don't have great bores because they were used extensively. Receiver ring is well marked with early Nazi era drop-wing Eagle firing proofs, SN '1306e' and the maker code 'S/147/G' (JP Sauer, 1935). This K98k was made for the SS, as indicated by the Death's head marking with 'SS 4' on the left side of the bbl adjacent to the receiver ring. To the OP, does it have the original stock on the rifle? If so, it would/should have a single rune cartouche in the stock in front of the magazine assembly and also a Deathshead cartouche near the wrist of the stock. RARE SS MAUSER K98k SHORT DOUBLE CLAW SNIPER RIFLE (SCHARFSCHUTZENGEWEHR) WITH 4X EBRA TELESCOPE. Single rune K98k's were made only by Steyr-Daimler-Pugh AG and it's known that the Steyr company had strong ties to the SS to the point that they were ordered to assist them in the manufacture of their own rifles. Issue K98ks with additional SS marks and commercial proofs "SSZ4A4" marked reworks and conversionsģ.

SS marked rifles fall into five groups:Ģ. They are in "demand" for the collector of very high end German martial arms. On the rune marked rifles, almost all bnz, the rune. Among other reason is that bcd had nothing to do with the rifle production associated with the SS procurement of rifles.

With collectibles condition is everything. The non-matching ones are starting about 800. I just looked at a website that has some 'all matching' K98s with starting bids around 3900, but no bids yet. Not sure what it is, but pretty sure that it is Not an SS rune. The BNZ code shows that it was made in Austria by Steyr. a REAL SS marked rifle is in demand? I assume this is true if all this fakery is abound.Īre real SS marked Gew 98's or K98k's in demand is like asking if gas trap cylinders are hard to find.no offense intended. I have seen that before, usualy on the bottom of a receiver or on a bbl.
