Vince24 wrote:Now let's also remembers that some of those Israeli Mausers are ex-nazi, some of them produced in the late months of the war in 1945, by a slave labour force, under allied carpet bombing raids, with whatever steel could be available.
The Germans never dropped their standards (nor did the Japanese), they simplified production but they never cut corners when it came to what they were made from or how they were manufactured. Their Volkssturm (aka last ditch) rifles were all proof tested, even the 8x57 Carcano conversions Krieghoff did. Further to this, after the war Brno assembled a stack of K98 rifles from blank forged receivers the Germans inspected and rejected in 1944, they had passed the fire proof (and were stamped as such) but were rejected as the trigger pin boss were slightly too far back or some other minor dimension issue that made 100% parts interchangeability an issue. The rest of the Israeli rifles were refurbished from captured stocks in Czechoslovakia or made from the mountains of various spare parts the factory had.
You never see 98 mausers come apart of any variant; The design is incredibly tolerant, steel wise they are nothing special either.
Earlier 93/95/96 mausers are a different kettle of fish.
Israeli K98's are all rock solid, they have been through a few wars and a few barrels. If there was anything wrong it wouldn't exist.