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Any K98k collectors on here? I went down the rabbit hole a few years ago and was luckily able to pull myself out. K98k collecting is both extremely expensive and very difficult as the market is riddled with fakes. Finding a period correct, 100% matching and legitimate rifle is a painstaking process. I was lucky to find these two, which I'll never shoot and will likely keep for as long as I can. Even 80 years later, the quality of German craftsmanship is evident all over these rifles.
Top: 1942 byf 42 hh block with a rare walnut stock. Most of these were lost to the Eastern Front, so finding one is a tough ask, even more so in walnut (production had mostly switched to laminate due to cost and durability).
Bottom: 1940 42 code dd block with a red glue laminate stock. This is a duffle cut GI bring back. In order to fit their rifles in their duffle bags, a cut was made on the handguard. This one has been professionally repaired luckily.
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