Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Can anyone identify this M98?

Sorry it took so long, but I have full pics for all of those Sherlock Holmes out there who have been puzzling out the mystery for me.

First of all, it's a full-on custom, with an exceptional Fajen stock, Mc Gowen 22" barrel in 6.5x55, jewelled bolt with nicely forged bolt handle, Dayton-Traister low-swing Mark II safety and what appears to be a replacement trigger (but I can't see any mfg stamp to identify it).

To those who requested full pics, here are left and right side views:





I LOVE the wood in this stock! You might not be able to see it in the pics, but the inletting is so precise that I couldn't get the thinnest of knife blades between the wood and the metal anywhere along the barrel/receiver channel.



Bolt shroud to prove it's an M98:



Bottom metal with same serial number as receiver:



and finally, for all those military firearms historians out there...
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Do the years pictured here this make it a Kar98a, rather than the Kar98?