@JagerSH3 - when I was in the army I carried an M-60 machine gun, and I had a hang fire on the range one time, I waited a couple of minutes, and when the armorer opened the feed tray cover it went off in his face- knocked him back, his helmet and glasses were knocked crooked and his face was black like an old cartoon character with an exploding cigar! My Mauser is a 1918 Oberndorf a/N that went to Turkey- it has the Turkish moon on the receiver but is all original, cost me $100 in 1993!
Not a good idea to just leave the unfired round lying around like that. With surplus ammunition it could have just been a hangfire, so when you opened the bolt it could have went off.
But whatever, very nice rifle, I want to get one myself.
@mugofdoom Yeah, I do agree with you, I was getting impatient with all the misfires! My bad. It's not easy finding an original GEW-98 that hasn't been messed with. I bought mine in 1993, Southern Ohio Gunworks had *crates* of them, $100 hand-picked! Those were the days, my friend. I should have grabbed 4 or 5 of them!
I've been told to avoid 50's surplus ammo and go with 70's surplus ammo...with Yugo 50's being the worst, Romanian 70's being the second best, and Yugo 70's and upwards being the best.
As for the gun, nice to see a milsurp gun in original condition. My matching-numbers Weimar Republic 98 had the stock cut up by "bubba", so I got it for $100. Still an amazing rifle.
Yeah, that's what I was shooting was 1950's Yugo ammo, it was horrible. The newer Yugo stuff is pretty good, just very corrosive. I've also had good luck with that 1940's Turkish stuff in the bandoliers, you can find it cheap at gun shows.
@JagerSH3 Sure thing. If you can send me your email in a private message, I'll get some photos out to you in the next day or so!
FargoMarc 1 year ago
@JagerSH3 - when I was in the army I carried an M-60 machine gun, and I had a hang fire on the range one time, I waited a couple of minutes, and when the armorer opened the feed tray cover it went off in his face- knocked him back, his helmet and glasses were knocked crooked and his face was black like an old cartoon character with an exploding cigar! My Mauser is a 1918 Oberndorf a/N that went to Turkey- it has the Turkish moon on the receiver but is all original, cost me $100 in 1993!
FargoMarc 1 year ago
@JagerSH3 Yeah, that was my bad. We all have days like this.
FargoMarc 1 year ago
Not a good idea to just leave the unfired round lying around like that. With surplus ammunition it could have just been a hangfire, so when you opened the bolt it could have went off.
But whatever, very nice rifle, I want to get one myself.
mugofdoom 2 years ago 2
@mugofdoom Yeah, I do agree with you, I was getting impatient with all the misfires! My bad. It's not easy finding an original GEW-98 that hasn't been messed with. I bought mine in 1993, Southern Ohio Gunworks had *crates* of them, $100 hand-picked! Those were the days, my friend. I should have grabbed 4 or 5 of them!
FargoMarc 2 years ago
my favourite rifle!! 5 stars ***** vid
Littleboy0830 2 years ago 11
I've been told to avoid 50's surplus ammo and go with 70's surplus ammo...with Yugo 50's being the worst, Romanian 70's being the second best, and Yugo 70's and upwards being the best.
As for the gun, nice to see a milsurp gun in original condition. My matching-numbers Weimar Republic 98 had the stock cut up by "bubba", so I got it for $100. Still an amazing rifle.
zchris87v 2 years ago 6
Yeah, that's what I was shooting was 1950's Yugo ammo, it was horrible. The newer Yugo stuff is pretty good, just very corrosive. I've also had good luck with that 1940's Turkish stuff in the bandoliers, you can find it cheap at gun shows.
FargoMarc 2 years ago
I just fired some 1970's Romanian non-corrosive through it...worked like a charm!
FargoMarc 2 years ago
Good to know! I'm not sure if what I have is corrosive since I scrub the bore every time I shoot it, but what I bought was from ammunition to go.
Where'd you buy the 70's romanian ammo from?
zchris87v 2 years ago
How much did this cost?
majorporpoise 2 years ago
$100, handpicked from Southern Ohio Gunworks ....but that was in 1993.
FargoMarc 2 years ago
I payed $200 for my all matching G98......but that was 1 month ago.
majorporpoise 2 years ago 4
Cool deal! :-)
FargoMarc 2 years ago
Yeah! Even had all the keeper screws & original cleaning rod.......the firing pin was just chipped, so I use my K98 firing pin!
It was a vet bring back.
majorporpoise 2 years ago 5