$20,000 bubba'ed K98

[double_action]

Damn . . .

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=80436632

[ivanimal]

Did you look at the bid history? The both of em love K-98's their feedback for auctions won read like German history 101.

[metalhead357]

ohhhhhhhhh god god. looks like gunbroker's going the way of e-puke now

[Spiggy]

swjXE, it's a rare steyr bubbahed kar98

Probably worth lots if restored

[Boomer1961]

Damn . . .

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...?Item=80436632

Me thinkem it was it mustem beenem latem nightem drunken fumblem fingersem.

I am sure gunbroker has rules like ebay where drunken finger bids placed late at night are not binding if proven to be well above asking and past historical winning auction prices.

None the less the fellow has another nice one, though the price seems to keep going up on these things. I seem to always be willing to pay last years price and always waiting for it to go down to last years price and with the exception of the current AR/AK feeding frenzy over the last 20 years, it never seems to go down to last years price. This might also explain why those AR's and AK's have multiplied like rabbits around the house and they now must share time in the gunsafe, or behind the bedroom door, or buried up in the attic, or disassembled and boxed and put into storage while my collection of other milsurp has suffered.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=81144206

[DedEye]

Bubbaed meaning sporterized?

[want_ar]

Bubbaed meaning sporterized?

Yes.

Mauser collectors are an eccentric lot. No drunk bidding there. That is likely the only surviving rifle with that code. Shame it was sportered, but if the metal is authentic, it is very rare. Check out the seller's less than stellar feedback though.

[Dr. Peter Venkman]

Only 300-400 K98s with that type of Steyr manufacturing stamp (swjXe) were made. They switched to 'BNZ' afterwards.

EDITED to be correct, I made the mistake earlier of confusing BYF with BNZ.

[daskraut]

Imagine what it would be worth unbutchered with all matching parts!!

[dustoff31]

Only 300-400 K98s with that type of Steyr manufacturing stamp (swjXe) were made. They switched to 'Byf' afterwards.

byf is a Mauser Oberndorf code. To the best of my knowledge the only codes ever used (on K98s) by Steyr were "660" and "bnz".

The records of makers code that I have do not show either "swj" or "swjXE" being used on K98s. At some point between 42 and 45 "swj" was used on MG42s made by Steyer. I suppose towards the end, they didn't get too picky about this sort of thing, but it's still weird.

It is a late war rifle though as the "Mod 98" wasn't moved to the top of the receiver until early 45. Who made it still up in the air. Either way in my opinion, if it sold for 20G, someone got ripped off.

[bigthaiboy]

Obviously the seller did not even know what he had as the only clue to the swjXE code was the one in the photo. He added a mention of the code later. Also his start price was only $279.

All his christmases must have came at once.

[Dr. Peter Venkman]

byf is a Mauser Oberndorf code. To the best of my knowledge the only codes ever used (on K98s) by Steyr were "660" and "bnz".

The records of makers code that I have do not show either "swj" or "swjXE" being used on K98s. At some point between 42 and 45 "swj" was used on MG42s made by Steyer. I suppose towards the end, they didn't get too picky about this sort of thing, but it's still weird.

It is a late war rifle though as the "Mod 98" wasn't moved to the top of the receiver until early 45. Who made it still up in the air. Either way in my opinion, if it sold for 20G, someone got ripped off.

Slip of the tongue. Too much **** going on in my head. Good catch.

BNZ, not BYF!

Here's what I found:

http://latewar.com/html/weapons.html

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:X82IyRtcnvkJ:www.ycgg.org/pdfpages/ww2/Steyr.pdf+SWjXE&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Still up in the air, but could be the real deal.

[dustoff31]

Slip of the tongue. Too much **** going on in my head. Good catch.

BNZ, not BYF!

Here's what I found:

http://latewar.com/html/weapons.html

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:X82IyRtcnvkJ:www.ycgg.org/pdfpages/ww2/Steyr.pdf+SWjXE&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Still up in the air, but could be the real deal.

No problem. I was doing the same thing trying to look up the SWJ, getting it mixed up with the other SW*'s.

It could be real, the WAa 623 is stamped on the barrel by the Ser no, but he doesn't show the ser no. on the receiver. Steyer was one of the few that was very good about matching them.

I don't think I would spend that much on it, real or not.

[Rogerbutthead]

The seller from Eagle Idaho is a known humper. That being said, the rifle he sold was a very rare bubba'd 98K.

There are threads on this sale on both the K98 Forum on Gunboards and the G/K43 Forum. The buyer knew what he was doing.

http://www.gk43forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3202

http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?t=3077

I wish I had that kind of disposable income.

[xrMike]

What's a 'humper' mean among collectors?