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You may want to contact Rob Ski, "Vintage Rifle Shooters Club", YouTube. He would have some good contacts for you
and your friend.
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I'd bet that it's a German 98k built for one of the rifles that had a bent bolt handle instead of the straight handles that they used later in the war. On a guess, I'd say it was built before about 1943.
The stock and barrel might be worth $35 each.
The refinish ruins the stock for a collector but the inletting still looks OK so it might work for a shooter or a re-enactor willing to strip off the current finish and get it closer to the original. The most valuable thing about the barrel is the sights, which seem to be original and in good shape. If you had an action (and a really strong sentimental attachment to the barrel) then you could rebore it to an 8x57-based wildcat but the work would cost far more than the finished product would ever be worth.
Pulling together a Mauser parts gun is a learning exercise because of the near-infinite variations in parts. That's also why the parts are so cheap. Plenty of folks can look at an old hunk of metal and say, "Yeah, that goes on a Mauser" but it takes an expert to tell you which Mauser.
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If Montana had a standing army, a 270 Win with Federal Blue Box 130's would be the standard issue.
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K98k parts are worth some dough. Though, that stocks looks to have been refinished. That would diminish the value considerably.
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I used have quite a few stocks (Mauser) left laying around with all if the metal and the barrel attached. It seems that after 20 years or so, people were looking for stocks for their restoration projects etc. I was able to sell almost all that I kept for as much as I paid for the whole rifle. Of course I bought the rifles cheap in those days (in quantity) for around $100 bucks.
A good place to watch for people wanting stocks is " Gunboards"
By the way, I wish I would have kept quite a few of the rifles instead of sporterizing them.
Now you won't be able to find some of them at all.
Z1r will probably agree with me.
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I kept all my take off stocks for some time but they became too much to store. Got rid of them. Wish I was able to unload them at today's prices!
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