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How do i remove the whole front sight assembly off of a k 98 ,my front sight has no grooves and i need to add?
a sight hood to make it correct for a 1942 k98
actually i have a rebuilt low turret sniper .Im sure you are probably right but I still want to add one.Do you know how they come off?
Stop right there!
I politely dispute that your 1942 absolutely came with a front sight hood, information you seem to have taken as fact.
While the Wermacht did institute the sight hood as standard in 1939, not all guns made after that date necessarily came with a hood, as many factories just never adopted the grooved sight post, or they just used the parts they had on hand before making the design change.
Remember there were like 20 factories making these guns by 1942, not just in Germany but in occupied Poland and Belgium and in the Nazi's allied countries of Czechoslovakia and Hungary. And that they were at war! Little changes like the sight hood never got implemented in some of these factories at all. We would need to do a whole lot more research on your factory codes to determine its disposition.
Do you have a Russian capture K98? The Soviets stripped off the sight hood when they refinished the guns, but if the gun has no groves in the sight base, then the overwhelming odds are it never had a hood. They never changed the sight bases, or even barrels. Guns that were damaged were stripped of good parts and the rest was melted down. Remember, the USSR had something like 8 million of these guns that they captured after defeating the Axis, they only kept over a million, so they selected the better ones to refinish and warehouse for emergency use.
The definitive, although flawed, text on the matter is Richard D. Laws, 'Backbone of the Wehrmacht - the German K98k Rifle 1934-1945', page 141, states:
"In Early December, 1939, the Heeres Verordnungsblatt announced the introduction of a front sight hood for the K98k. This device, along with an issue of four rubber muzzle caps per rifle, would replace the flip-up muzzle/front sight cover then in use. Aside from being cheaper to produce, the new hood and cap combination offered several advantages over the earlier metal cover. The blade of the front sight was protected at all times, as it was visible even with the hood attached and the rifle could be fired with a muzzle cap in place even though the cap would be destroyed in the process.
Although the procedure for cutting the grooves in the sight base for mounting the hood was easily within the capabilities of company-level armorers and all of the factories, no such authorization was ever given at the company level and many factories never adopted the change. Rifles were manufactured and in the field were machined only if and when they were turned into the base workshops for routine repairs, and consequently K98ks without front sight hoods were in use right up until the last days of the war.
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