by bigrich » 08 Mar 2018, 4:41 pm
yup squiddy, K98's are not cheap these days. swede mausers have come back down to earth a bit recently. can buy some real nice sporters for not a lot now. i wouldn't worry too much about matching numbers. a lot of the time arsenal refurbished guns with non matching bolts will shoot better than a matching collector piece . at least that's the case with my carl gustav m96. i can shoot 2 " at 100 with a file modified front sight blade. bought a taller one and am getting it sighted for 2.2" at 100 to get the best out of it. 30 years ago me and a few mates used to hunt with m38/96 mausers and open sights and did well