They don't mention that the "military" that kept them in storage was the old Soviet Union. They also like to use the phrase "kept in military storage" and imply that the Germans hid some secret cache of K98k's. They aren't original markings and they might have been stamped last year or last month or last week, but they are "matching numbers", so technically it isn't false advertising. Like when they say "matching numbers" the numbers do indeed match each other, so they are technically correct. You need to really read the wording of all advertising - much like you have to check out the exact wording of politiciansĮxactly. But there is no reason to pay the increased price for their pimp-shined version when you can get an unmessed-with RC Kar98k for less Ī regular RC at least has some collector value as an RC and can be just as good a shooter, for less than Mitchell's charges.Ī Mitchell's Mauser pimp-shined RC Kar98k.
They have even less collector value than a regular RC Kar98k, but like any Kar98k they can be good shooters.
Mitchell's Mausers takes the RC Kar98k's and pimp-shines them: heavily sand the stock, polish the bolt to an inauthentic bare-metal shine, stamp new "matching numbers" on them, then charge a premium for their handiwork. At some point the Soviets took the valuable Kar98k's apart down to parts, refinished the parts, and then assembled mixmasters from parts, pretty much destroying the collector's value of the rifles as German Kar98k's. Then like a lot of importers they got access to Russian Capture (RC) Kar98k's that were real Nazi Kar98k's that had been captured by or surrendered to the Soviets. They used to advertise Yugo M48 Mausers as "98 Mausers made with German machinery" blah blah, and fooled some people into thinking they were getting Kar98k rifles.
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