97th Signalman
07-03-2009, 03:34 PM
I got this Russian capture 98K from SOG. It was my first purchase with my recently acquired C&R license. The hot dip bluing is OK at best. Nothing much matches on this thing. It is marked CE for JP Sauer & Sohn and was made in 1943. It has in import stamp on the barrel from R Guns in Carpenterville, IL. The bore is very good but dark (blued by the ruskies?) with great rifling all the way to the muzzle. The head space checked out OK.
I took it to the range and fired some 3" groups at 100 yards with 192 gr Yugo surplus and also some non-corrosive PPU ammo as well. I have loaded up some 150 grain bullets and I will see how it shoots with that stuff. I am looking for a lighter load with somewhat reduced recoil compared with the surplus ammo which is pretty stout in recoil.
As you can see most of the waffenamt stamps are there. The heat treated spring steel used in the extractor and barrel band spring was turned red when the ruskies tried to hot dip blue it. Those items were painted black but the paint came off during cleaning. Some misguided communist penciled the SN (unchanged from the stamped number) on the receiver but he did not electro-pencil the SN on the bolt as is usually done...bad day at the gulag.
I took it to the range and fired some 3" groups at 100 yards with 192 gr Yugo surplus and also some non-corrosive PPU ammo as well. I have loaded up some 150 grain bullets and I will see how it shoots with that stuff. I am looking for a lighter load with somewhat reduced recoil compared with the surplus ammo which is pretty stout in recoil.
As you can see most of the waffenamt stamps are there. The heat treated spring steel used in the extractor and barrel band spring was turned red when the ruskies tried to hot dip blue it. Those items were painted black but the paint came off during cleaning. Some misguided communist penciled the SN (unchanged from the stamped number) on the receiver but he did not electro-pencil the SN on the bolt as is usually done...bad day at the gulag.