My dugged up 98k (pics)
Hi all,(No I'm not new, I just don't talk much, I read )When I registered at this forum, I said that I had 2 dugged up Kar 98k's (from the Ardennes).I tried to repair one of them.(Don't expect much of...
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Interesting items you've got there, what are the reciever markings?The Mauser Kid
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Well, the receiver markings of the rusted one is byf 44and the restored one bcd 4 .GreetingsJan
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I want to go over there and see the battlefields so bad. I'm working on my German, and hopefully I'll be able to get some money together to go over there. Right now though, they keep raising tuition...
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Hey Jan:That is the most interesting trophy I have seen as far as Mauser's go. Now there is a rifle that we would like to talk to. Since the bolt is missing it could have been taken off of a German...
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Just imagine how much more there is to be found on the WW2 battlefields of Europe. Nice job of restoration but for me I would enjoy it "as found" and displayed in my den. I spent 3 years in Germany...
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I wonder if the use of metal detectors for the sake of finding some of this stuff is allowed in Europe or Germany.Imagine what you might find. Jr.
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Well actually in Belgium, you may not dig up stuff like that... But a friend of me does it all the time.BUT: I warn you: It's very dangerous to dig up things like that!!The germans didnt want that the...
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I had a pen-pal in germany for a while, and was talking to him about once a week at one point. He worked for the red cross, and he would tell me the things he had to do. THey would still to this day...
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I saw the show about the guy looking for the buried diamonds. I was glad the guy didn't find anything, because he struck me as a greedy pig.I read that French farmers get killed every year plowing up...
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You didn't see the end of the show! He did actually find the diamonds, which was the cool part. Over the course of the show he started to realize his fault in wanting the diamonds for himself, and saw...
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Yes ; that was an excellent show. I felt like that sod should have found some UXB and gone west with it...but in the end when he relented and let go of greeds grasp I was comforted. Was a brutal...
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Hi Jan, I like the way your building a K98 collection, there is no question about its originality. There was a special on one of the TV channels on the battle for Berlin where they showed the digging...
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Use of metal detectors in the Ardennes can get you into hot water with the authorities unless you're on private land with the landowner's permission.All is not lost, though. There are at least two...
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yes that is correct!! Well, believe or not, but I think a year ago, A Farmer found a dead german soldier leaning against a tree in a big forrest.He was probobly lost, becaus in the area he was found,...
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This is all incredibly fascinating. I'm a huge WWII buff and I'd probably have a stroke if I went to Europe with all the history around me. I can only imagine how great it'd feel to run across old...
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Yes that's right.But probably WW2 didnt interrest the farmer, so what would you do if you found a skeleton, being a simple farmer, not knowing it is a soldier.
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In the early 1980s, I spent three years stationed in Nuremberg, Germany, as a young Ordnance Officer. I was allowed to use my metal detector in "Hitler's Stadium" (actually Zeppelin Field) and a few...
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