Preduzece 44

[shooter1975]

Well I just got around to cleaning my Preduzece 44 that been sitting in my safe now for years! Took it all apart and gave it a good cleaning. The wood is in great shape, bluing looks good and shiny bore! My question is has anyone seen a scrubbed Yugo crest before?? If searched around and only found 2 instances of a scrubbed Yugo crest but really no info. Anyway here are some pics:

[kcheung2]

I think it's the other way around . That looks like a k98 that ended up as a Yugo capture, then sent to Enterprise 44 where the original German markings were very roughly scrubbed off & the Yugo crest then impressed onto the receiver.

Just my hunch though. Do you see a Model 98 marking On the left of the receiver? Or any waffenamt logos that look to be punched out?

[shooter1975]

I think it's the other way around . That looks like a k98 that ended up as a Yugo capture, then sent to Enterprise 44 where the original German markings were very roughly scrubbed off & the Yugo crest then impressed onto the receiver.

Just my hunch though. Do you see a Model 98 marking On the left of the receiver? Or any waffenamt logos that look to be punched out?

Yeah there is a Mod 98 marking on the left of the receiver.

[Emdawg]

That is a captured K98 from WW2. They Yugoslavs refurbished them. Usually giving them a new blue and barrel, as well as scrubbing most of the German marks off except for the Mod. 98.

As for the scrubbed Yugo crest, I can't say. Maybe the gun was captured by anti-Yugo partisans during the Bosnian Wars or perhaps it was meant to export and that was a lazy scrubbing.

[McNally M.]

I have a Yugo K98 that also has a scrubbed crest and the bluing is rubbed off just like the above rifle. I would like to know why some had scrubbed crests while most are intact.

[xDoodles]

Never seen that before. My Yugo k98 still has its crest and you can still see the "byf" marking and "43" on my receiver

[Bobby Ricigliano]

Yugo capture K98. Usually nicer condition and better bore than a RC. Cheaper too. Best K98 value out there if you don't require intact evil chickens.

[McNally M.]

I have two Yugo K98s and they are by far the nicest examples I have compared to my RC's. Although it seems like the bluing is much more susceptible to being rubbed off that the Russians, or am I just crazy?

[Bobby Ricigliano]

FWIW that appears to be a Yugo crest that is ground off. I have no idea why that is. So it has been ground at least twice, first to remove German factory codes and then to remove the Yugo crest,

[shooter1975]

FWIW that appears to be a Yugo crest that is ground off. I have no idea why that is. So it has been ground at least twice, first to remove German factory codes and then to remove the Yugo crest,

Thats actually what I thought. It looks like a Yugo crest.