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#662062 06/20/25 07:52 PM
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What front sight is this? Anyone know?
Thanks in advance...SDH
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Looks like it’s from a Spanish M44 Mauser

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copyandpastethissitehttps://www.reddit.com/r/gunsmithing/comments/17y3z0v/spanish_m44_ea_canted_front_sight/donotaddthis,justto show the link

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Many thanks to you three guys~~
I have no idea where I got it?
Never a Spanish Mauser in my shop?
Doesn't seem to have any value or desirability~
Cleaning out the corners, this one to the bin...

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Could that maybe rather be a part for the German Karabiner 98 (also called 98 AZ and later 98a), the small-ring Mod. 98 ?

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Polish Radom or Polish WZ29 the large ring Mauser
That's it. The sight from my first Trinidad State Gunsmithing School project in 1975. I bought the Polish Radom rifle out of a wooden barrel in the school bookstore. Stripped to the action and bottom metal. Contoured, fit and chambered a Shilen barrel in .270. Converted the metal to sporter configuration & single staged the trigger. Filed up, polished, drilled & tapped the action. Stocked from the blank of Iowa Black Walnut with Ed Shulin, American Classic styling.
I sold the rifle about 10 years later to buy an airline ticket to Las Vegas to join the American Custom Gunmakers Guild. Sure wish I had the rifle now~

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Kar 98a front sight. Poland and Spain used them thanks to WWI and the Spanish Civil War, respectively.

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Sold on ebay for $35. Hoping it serves another project or restoration~

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