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HUNGARIAN "Mausers"?
By: ALASKATC Date: October 30, 2015, 11:04 am
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I'm a new guy on this forum seeking info not just on Mausers,
but currently needing knowledge on the 1935 - 43 series of
Hungarian rifles used in WW2. If not here on MILSURP - then
where? ???
My specific question IF there are experts in the know is: What
bayonet(s) were used on the interim "middle series" of rifle
called the Hungarian 98/40?
I have a model 1935 Hungarian rifle, and a final-before-wars-end
rifle model of 1943, but not one of the interim hybrid versions
instigated by the Nazis after their takeover of Hungary. That
rifle, designated the 98/40, was a half-breed of 1935 stock and
action but rechambered for the usual German 8x57
cartridge/floorplate (instead of the original Hungarian 8x56R
system of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, dissolved after WW1).
The bayonet lug was revised to handle any usual 98 Mauser
German bayonet.
By 1943 the group decided to revert back to the original unique
Hungarian bayonet so changed the bayonet lug back to 1935
variation - but they left these 1943 versions in 8x57 mm and
using the floorplate/magazine typical to the 98/40 and any other
98 Mauser. Weird, huh?!
SO: in addition to "any usual German 98 Mauser bayonet," were
there Hungarian bayonets also made for those 98/40 rifles with
the Mauser bayonet lug? If so, what might a good quality
version be worth - I cannot find much on the web about this, and
even the few pictures I have found show a 98 Mauser bayonet with
the 98/40 rifle (It may be that not everything on the internet
is perfect?!) :o
Anybody?
Thanks,
ALASKATC
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