<![CDATA[Tell me about this gun (Nazi Mauser 98)]]>My uncle just gave us this gun and we are trying to figure out more about it...

It's a model 98 Mauser, 8mm we believe...everyone wants to charge us $50 to get a barrel casting made to make sure it is in fact 8mm. We've also been told that many people like to interchange old stuff with "sportster" barrels made for lighter loads or something along those lines.

The gun still has original Nazi symbols stamped into the barrel. From what we know it was made in 1944 in Oberndorf Germany (BYF44 stamped on the top...hard to see in the pictures)

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]]>https://fargostreet.com/topic/15259/tell-me-about-this-gun-nazi-mauser-98RSS for NodeThu, 28 May 2026 15:41:21 GMTWed, 01 Oct 2008 00:05:05 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Tell me about this gun (Nazi Mauser 98) on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:05:00 GMT]]>i got one of those the original if i were you id look for a original stock for the gun that one has been sporterizes if you can make it original its worth about 500 bucks in good shape

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/227833https://fargostreet.com/post/227833Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:05:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tell me about this gun (Nazi Mauser 98) on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:54:43 GMT]]>One of the guys we were hunting with one year was hunting dear with a 9mm mauser with a big swastika engraved in the stock and a german eagle on the forearm. Peep sites.. sweet gun. And he was hunting deer with it lol

Another one of the guys we hunt with uses an 8mm mauser

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/227785https://fargostreet.com/post/227785Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:54:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tell me about this gun (Nazi Mauser 98) on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:32:59 GMT]]>my dad collected all sorts of nazi/ww2 memorabilia and weaponry before he died. I've got all his books and references somewhere at my parents' house. There's an off-chance I have something extremely helpful in there.. and I'm not sure how willing I am to start sorting through the boxes. because it sucks. so i'd do my research on the interwebz first. i know the mosin nagant fans have a really good site.. i'd figure the mauser stuff would be even more well-researched and documented.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/227780https://fargostreet.com/post/227780Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:32:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tell me about this gun (Nazi Mauser 98) on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:46:05 GMT]]>Ebay! Lol jk

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/227735https://fargostreet.com/post/227735Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:46:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tell me about this gun (Nazi Mauser 98) on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:34:49 GMT]]>I might know some ppl that could tell u a lot more about, I just dont remember where around here they are from... We have a few ppl that are very knowledgable about those kind of guns that set up at our shows...

Definately a collectors items with the Nazi stamps and stuff on them...

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/227730https://fargostreet.com/post/227730Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:34:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tell me about this gun (Nazi Mauser 98) on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:27:39 GMT]]>Its just so weird to see things like that from so long ago. It was such a bad time , and seeing things like this just kinda reminds you that that stuff happened.

Reminds me of american beauty when that kid shows his girlfreind his dads dinner plate from ww2 with the swastika on the bottom. Idk i just think that stuff is interesting lol

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/227653https://fargostreet.com/post/227653Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:27:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tell me about this gun (Nazi Mauser 98) on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:21:18 GMT]]>That really interested me too Brandon, although I'm thinking it probably didn't see MUCH war, if any, being as it was made in 44. Either way I find it interesting and cool to think that this gun was made by Nazi Germany in WW2.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/227647https://fargostreet.com/post/227647Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:21:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tell me about this gun (Nazi Mauser 98) on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:40:13 GMT]]>damn i think that is so cool , stuff with some deep history to it. and probly has a pretty crazy story to go with it as to how it got in your grandfathers possesion. o man i could about imagine what that gun has seen if it was actually used in the war

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/227617https://fargostreet.com/post/227617Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:40:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tell me about this gun (Nazi Mauser 98) on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:29:34 GMT]]>It was his dad's...no clue where his dad got it nor if he was in the war but I'm assuming so

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/227614https://fargostreet.com/post/227614Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:29:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tell me about this gun (Nazi Mauser 98) on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:30:57 GMT]]>Cool gun nice piece of history, where did your uncle get it?

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Goodnbuzzd;239026 wrote:
id keep it just the way it is, seems to me anything still marked with the reich crap is very rare, especially since it is against the law in germany to have anything with the swastica or reich paraphernalia on it. my buddy has a mauser from that era, and it seems to me it is some really odd calibre, like 7.64 x 43 (and no its not 7.62 🙂 )or some wierd crap like that. heres a link that might help. http://gk43forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6918

7.92 x 57, .323, or 8mm, whichever you'd prefer to call it 🙂

JN210;239034 wrote:
was it ever fired?.....Id keep it the way it is....worth much more later on.

Yes it has been fired. Guns were made to be shot, cars were made to be driven...

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/227555https://fargostreet.com/post/227555Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:18:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tell me about this gun (Nazi Mauser 98) on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:07:49 GMT]]>Standard issue rifle at the time of WWII. More of a collectors item/museum piece for sure.

Good rifle though.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/227553https://fargostreet.com/post/227553Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:07:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tell me about this gun (Nazi Mauser 98) on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:39:16 GMT]]>was it ever fired?.....Id keep it the way it is....worth much more later on.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/227539https://fargostreet.com/post/227539Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:39:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tell me about this gun (Nazi Mauser 98) on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:28:36 GMT]]>We had one just like that when I was a kid, don't do anything to it or try to clean the exterior in any way. I dunno if yours is the exact one we had but we sold it for a shit ton.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/227535https://fargostreet.com/post/227535Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:28:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tell me about this gun (Nazi Mauser 98) on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:12:01 GMT]]>id keep it just the way it is, seems to me anything still marked with the reich crap is very rare, especially since it is against the law in germany to have anything with the swastica or reich paraphernalia on it. my buddy has a mauser from that era, and it seems to me it is some really odd calibre, like 7.64 x 43 (and no its not 7.62 🙂 )or some wierd crap like that. heres a link that might help. http://gk43forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6918

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/227531https://fargostreet.com/post/227531Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:12:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Tell me about this gun (Nazi Mauser 98) on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:02:08 GMT]]>Im no help, but cool find. Sweet to have something with real history to it (even if it is nazi germany).

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