- YUGO MAUSER CREST MOD 98 SERIAL NUMBERS
- YUGO MAUSER CREST MOD 98 SERIAL NUMBER
- YUGO MAUSER CREST MOD 98 SERIAL
- YUGO MAUSER CREST MOD 98 CODE
Most rifles have their factory marking on the left side of the receiver, directly opposite to the receiver serial number. Which was one of the main factories in Yugoslavia for supplying the military’s small arm needs. Most of these rifles were produced at Preduzece 44.
YUGO MAUSER CREST MOD 98 SERIAL NUMBERS
Even though they removed many of the markings a lot of rifle still have a lot of marking including waffenamts and the serial numbers of parts of the guns they came from.
YUGO MAUSER CREST MOD 98 SERIAL NUMBER
A Yugo Serial number in a letter prefix followed by 4 digits One on the bolt handle, another on right side of the receiver, one on the magazine floor plate, lastly on the stock in front of the buttplate on the left side. Speaking of serial numbers, there are only four standard places on a Yugoslavian K98k that contain its Yugo serial number. Bayonets were also captured from the Germans and refinished as well as restamped with new serial numbers.
YUGO MAUSER CREST MOD 98 CODE
The Yugoslavians drastically differ, many Yugo K98k’s have domestically produced and elm stocks (YES IT’S ELM)(Some do retain their German stocks but they are in original finish and not ruined), as well as their markings being properly ground off and all pits and rust removed before bluing, a new and more communist crest being added where the German factory code used to be, and ensuring all rifles are complete and parts fit and move smoothly. Most Russian captures are know for a quick hot blue over pitting, crappy part fittings, lack of capture screws, red shellac stocks, markings gruesomely peened out by hammer, and far worse horrors. Can’t find a reference now unfortunately)īeing Yugoslavia these rifles went through a careful and tedious refurbishment process. (Side note: I once found read literature that claimed the USSR had actually sold back to Yugoslavia all of Yugoslavia’s own equipment that the Germans had seized during the war. But what they did have was a whole lot of K98k’s plus spare parts, and if they needed some tooling the USSR would be happy to give some tooling in exchange for loyalty and money. Being so short after the war Yugoslavia didn’t really have the right materials or tooling to make all new barrels, receivers, etc. After the war, like most Balkan countries, Yugoslavia became a soviet puppet. Most of this is because of the Yugoslavian royal crests on the M24. Though many people do not actually know why they picked up these foreign military rifles when they still had hordes of M24’s. Now I’m sure you can figure out how Yugoslavia got these rifles.
Now there were a strain of M95 Mannlicher’s that Yugoslavia refitted and issued to troops, but that’s the same story different gun. This only include German K98k’s and no other country. This does not include the prewar M24, or the post war refurbished M24/47, and it definitely isn’t the M48. A reason for such a degrading comparison is due to the lack of information available on the internet.įirst I’d like to clarify what exactly a Yugo K98k is, it a German manufactured K98k that the postwar communist Yugoslavian government/military got its hands on one way or another. When in fact many Yugoslavian K98k’s were procured and handed in a much different manner. A lot of people claim that a Yugoslavian K98k (sometimes called k98/48) is very similar to a cheap Russian capture K98k.
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