Try some steel wool and goop hand cleaner with out the pumice, you will be amazed at all the dirt you will remove. Does an excellent job on antique cabinets as well. Congrats on a nice rifle.
I am considering to buy a Czech k98 myself. Since I am a slav and what not. Probably when they are on sale like the rest. Don't mind if it is cracked or not since I do plan on doing gun maintenance. At the moment, I will hold when a sale happens or if they do a discount drop on their carcanos. Also, I did notice my enfield rifle has a small crack but away from the receiver and moving towards the barrel. It is a small crack like you can get a small saw and chip it out but I think gorilla glue will work. 2:55 That crack is what I have for my m95 carbine except smaller.
Not bad. I'm 2/5 for buys from them. 5th hasn't come in yet. I like Steyr, and they're the only game in town for those. my "pre 1918" deal carcano is paper plate accurate @25yds, numerous stock repairs, and rounded, but present rifling. My 88/90 looks half shot out, but one of my best shooters, keeping 10 in palm-size group @75yds. The m95's were shot out, one with loose action. One I parted, and the safer one is on kitchen guard duty. I might rebarrel it, but smith's keep declining.
@@tfusilier44 one thing I've learned from RTI guns, is the "broken" ones, are often the shooters. It seems no one in Ethiopia fixed anything, so a broken part, put a gun away, while the others got shot out. The only good bores I've gotten, had broken extractor (88/90), and broken mag spring (m91). My remaining m95 stutzen, runs beautifully, and likely why it's shot out. It still keeps cast bullets on a "man torso" @25yds, but some keyholes. My quick kitchen grab-a-gun, and great for fire forming brass to reload. Had I paid regular price for it, I'd be pissed. I'm trying to get a smith to rebarrel in 7.6254R, and it'll be a sweety.
@@tfusilier44 I lightly sand down/clean the stocks, glue any cracks, drill and press in glued dowels where needed, apply a cold blue, and shoot them. I stick to under 400 stuff in rounds I can handle at full strength, and actually hunt with them. 88/90 is my go-to deer rifle, while the m91 is for hogs out back in my garden. I'm awaiting a long m95 next. Love that 8x50r, and those Steyr are balanced so well, and light for the size, slim in my hand, with 2nd shot being super fast while I stay on target. Pretty is nice, but I rather it work, lol
@@charlene2400 a rebarrel in 7.62x54 would be great, the rounds are pretty close to each that it would work out well with that new barrel. The M95 I have has a missing extractor and a pretty good bore so you probably aren't wrong on that. I do like how the M95 feels and balances too.
@@tfusilier44 I can get nice soviet surplus barrels, just need to find a smith worthy of the title, wanting to do something besides add a optic to a gold plated canik, lol. Price of doing it would compare to current mosin rates, but I'd have a much better rifle system. If it involves work, the customer is no longer right anymore, lol. My other m95 that got parted, had good complete bolt and extractor, but the bolt handle would slide back, if you aimed even slightly upwards, and I deemed it unsafe. One bolt did it moreso than the other in that gun, but both worked perfectly in the one I kept intact. Thus, the other had to be screwed.
I paid full price for one earlier in the year. Recieved an near excellent condition swp45 loaded with waffens. Interesting yours has a normal trigger guard. I personally think this was one of the cooler items they brought in.
@@tfusilier44 Wow you gotta have a very impressiv collection to be able to have a few k98k stocks. If one day you would like to show us everything I'll be glad to see it !
@@thefrenchgunsmith6488 I have 2 collection videos up plan to do one on all my K98s after I clean this one. The stocks I found at a local shop for a good price, got a few for my projects.
Cool rifle! The inspection stamp - of the two lions- are Czech stamped before they shipped - or are they instead Ethiopian stamped upon arrival in Africa ?
@@tfusilier44 Wow! record response time! If it did have cosmoline what your preferred cleaning technique was but I guess I won't have to worry about that, Thanks.
@@abroxyz98 no problem, for metal I usually boil the parts before clean with ballistol, takes it right off. If you can't boil the barrel and action just let it sit in ballistol and wipe off.
Never understood why Ethiopia didn't take better care of their surplus firearms.... I'm done with RTI been burned too many times.... Parts are Very hard to get.. Bores are shot... And not going to pay 400-800 for a dust collector....jmo.......be well.
I assume once the rifles were replaced by more modern rifles and no longer in service they didn't tie much value to them anymore. They also didn't have much in the way of maintenance programs in place and I assume the bores were not properly cleaned when using corrosive ammo.
Ethiopia was never wealthy by modern standards but it had a communist coup in the 1970s and things went way downhill after that. I grew up in the 1980s and there was a long-duration famine in Ethiopia at that time, with constant ads for various charities showing starving Ethiopian children on TV in the US. These may have already been in bad shape before then, but I'm sure that the poor conditions due to poor administration and nationalization of industry made things worse for the way these were stored.
They could have at least dunked them in cosmoline....Like every other country does..I've been looking for parts now almost 2 yrs. now for RTI stuff they sell.... jmo.... with all milsurp tools ya should be able to shoot them after going over n cleaning them... Don't mind a lil work but having a sewer bore n missing parts is b.s.......be well n Happy New Years.
Actually not bad considering the source and the b-grade designation. Really interested in how it would look cleaned up and such.
Will make for a fun winter project
Try some steel wool and goop hand cleaner with out the pumice, you will be amazed at all the dirt you will remove. Does an excellent job on antique cabinets as well. Congrats on a nice rifle.
I've used that before and works well. Just important to follow up with linseed oil as it can dry out the stock.
I am considering to buy a Czech k98 myself. Since I am a slav and what not. Probably when they are on sale like the rest. Don't mind if it is cracked or not since I do plan on doing gun maintenance. At the moment, I will hold when a sale happens or if they do a discount drop on their carcanos. Also, I did notice my enfield rifle has a small crack but away from the receiver and moving towards the barrel. It is a small crack like you can get a small saw and chip it out but I think gorilla glue will work. 2:55 That crack is what I have for my m95 carbine except smaller.
Not bad. I'm 2/5 for buys from them. 5th hasn't come in yet. I like Steyr, and they're the only game in town for those. my "pre 1918" deal carcano is paper plate accurate @25yds, numerous stock repairs, and rounded, but present rifling. My 88/90 looks half shot out, but one of my best shooters, keeping 10 in palm-size group @75yds. The m95's were shot out, one with loose action. One I parted, and the safer one is on kitchen guard duty. I might rebarrel it, but smith's keep declining.
Nice that the 88/90 is a good shooter. You should a video on them all, be interesting to see what they look like.
@@tfusilier44 one thing I've learned from RTI guns, is the "broken" ones, are often the shooters. It seems no one in Ethiopia fixed anything, so a broken part, put a gun away, while the others got shot out. The only good bores I've gotten, had broken extractor (88/90), and broken mag spring (m91). My remaining m95 stutzen, runs beautifully, and likely why it's shot out. It still keeps cast bullets on a "man torso" @25yds, but some keyholes. My quick kitchen grab-a-gun, and great for fire forming brass to reload. Had I paid regular price for it, I'd be pissed. I'm trying to get a smith to rebarrel in 7.6254R, and it'll be a sweety.
@@tfusilier44 I lightly sand down/clean the stocks, glue any cracks, drill and press in glued dowels where needed, apply a cold blue, and shoot them. I stick to under 400 stuff in rounds I can handle at full strength, and actually hunt with them. 88/90 is my go-to deer rifle, while the m91 is for hogs out back in my garden. I'm awaiting a long m95 next. Love that 8x50r, and those Steyr are balanced so well, and light for the size, slim in my hand, with 2nd shot being super fast while I stay on target. Pretty is nice, but I rather it work, lol
@@charlene2400 a rebarrel in 7.62x54 would be great, the rounds are pretty close to each that it would work out well with that new barrel. The M95 I have has a missing extractor and a pretty good bore so you probably aren't wrong on that. I do like how the M95 feels and balances too.
@@tfusilier44 I can get nice soviet surplus barrels, just need to find a smith worthy of the title, wanting to do something besides add a optic to a gold plated canik, lol. Price of doing it would compare to current mosin rates, but I'd have a much better rifle system. If it involves work, the customer is no longer right anymore, lol.
My other m95 that got parted, had good complete bolt and extractor, but the bolt handle would slide back, if you aimed even slightly upwards, and I deemed it unsafe. One bolt did it moreso than the other in that gun, but both worked perfectly in the one I kept intact. Thus, the other had to be screwed.
I paid full price for one earlier in the year. Recieved an near excellent condition swp45 loaded with waffens. Interesting yours has a normal trigger guard. I personally think this was one of the cooler items they brought in.
I agree, I don't think I saw the Ethiopian contract K98s with the medallion available anywhere until RTI brought them over.
Looks decent ! I never heard that they were offering a discount for a cracked stock, pretty funny haha
Its not a bad deal, I have some spare K98 stocks so the cracked stock option looked pretty interesting for me.
@@tfusilier44 Wow you gotta have a very impressiv collection to be able to have a few k98k stocks. If one day you would like to show us everything I'll be glad to see it !
@@thefrenchgunsmith6488 I have 2 collection videos up plan to do one on all my K98s after I clean this one. The stocks I found at a local shop for a good price, got a few for my projects.
Cool rifle! The inspection stamp - of the two lions- are Czech stamped before they shipped - or are they instead Ethiopian stamped upon arrival in Africa ?
The lion stamps are Czech made and would have been stamped at the factory.
TF howdy ..K98 nice.. That Stock is OK you can make that look great. How were the numbers .. did the bolt match ? OK thanks for showing.
I just ordered one, not b grade, did yours arrive covered in cosmoline or no?
I haven't taken it apart yet but didn't see any cosmoline externally
@@tfusilier44 Wow! record response time! If it did have cosmoline what your preferred cleaning technique was but I guess I won't have to worry about that, Thanks.
@@abroxyz98 no problem, for metal I usually boil the parts before clean with ballistol, takes it right off. If you can't boil the barrel and action just let it sit in ballistol and wipe off.
What is your proceeds for cleaning stocks?
For this one the stock crack will be repaired then I'll clean it with boiled linseed oil and 0000 steel wool followed by some wax.
Never understood why Ethiopia didn't take better care of their surplus firearms.... I'm done with RTI been burned too many times.... Parts are Very hard to get.. Bores are shot... And not going to pay 400-800 for a dust collector....jmo.......be well.
They were lovingly stored in the finest leaky roof dirt floor shacks for decades.
I assume once the rifles were replaced by more modern rifles and no longer in service they didn't tie much value to them anymore. They also didn't have much in the way of maintenance programs in place and I assume the bores were not properly cleaned when using corrosive ammo.
Ethiopia was never wealthy by modern standards but it had a communist coup in the 1970s and things went way downhill after that. I grew up in the 1980s and there was a long-duration famine in Ethiopia at that time, with constant ads for various charities showing starving Ethiopian children on TV in the US. These may have already been in bad shape before then, but I'm sure that the poor conditions due to poor administration and nationalization of industry made things worse for the way these were stored.
They could have at least dunked them in cosmoline....Like every other country does..I've been looking for parts now almost 2 yrs. now for RTI stuff they sell.... jmo.... with all milsurp tools ya should be able to shoot them after going over n cleaning them... Don't mind a lil work but having a sewer bore n missing parts is b.s.......be well n Happy New Years.
@@MegaBait1616 majority of my RTI purchases have decent bores. This one should have a good bore once cleaned up.