Yugoslavian Mauser K98 1924

This Mauser 98, made in 1924, was issued to the Yugoslavian army after WW2.

it is complete and in good condition for its age.
The matal work has matching numbers, although the woodwork appears tyo be from a different rifle. Given they were made from components after WW2 this was common.

The bore has plenty of rifling left.

Soon after World War II, the new formed Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was trying to re-arm its military forces. The main problem that the Yugoslav government had to face was the lack of funds and the fear of an imminent conflict with the Soviet Union. The new post war socialist government agreed to put aside some of the claims for German damages, instead receiving from the Western Allies captured parts, incomplete rifles, captured rifles and machinery still intact for production of Mauser arms. A temporary solution was found in refurbishing the rifles that were either captured by the Partisans or arrived from Western Europe. The project only took a few years and by 1947 most of the war rifles had been inspected, repaired and turned over to the JNA. The Yugoslav factory was known to put out higher quality shooters versus then Soviets. Yugoslavia being a country that originally was a producer of Mauser rifles prior to WWI and WWII, skilled workers existed already. Yugo Mausers (captured) were noted for their reliability, great accuracy, effective range and would not require a new mass production plant - thanks to the fact that all the components of the rifles were already available. These rifles were never used extensively until they were warehoused, in 1948, as the newer Yugoslav-made Zastava M48 came into being. Some of these rifles were used in a sniper rifle role during the Yugoslav Wars of 1990s. The rifles have been adapted, through machining, to accept new locally-made telescopic sights-the ZRAK series