3 Excellent US brought home K 98s’….SOLD

Three very good K98 “bolt mis-matches” brought home by US servicemen from WW2 theatres of combat

Three K98 Second World War rifles, as they should be on the day after they were “recovered” from the surrendered arms piles.  We’ve all seen the pictures.  Sacrilege in our minds but Good Riddance in the hearts of the men that had put the menace of fanatical Nazism down.  Huge piles of German rifles dumped behind the lines – all without their bolts.  The standard instruction to the surrendering Wehrmacht was to put rifles in that pile, bolts in that pile.  So begins the legend of the mismatched K98s’.  A souvenir happy G.I was not going to spend time looking for the correct bolt out of that sort of pile; he would quickly tuck-in, grab  a rifle and a bolt – Job Done !

There are also accounts of the instructions the British troops were give, whereby if any men were found with this kind of souvenir then he would be sent off to Egypt for the next three years ! Hence the lack of these items in the UK.  The bolts are complete units with matching numbers.  The rifles follow the same pattern with all over matching numbers.

All have good bores and are off at proof.

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