k98 BYF 43

[cosmo1000]

I have a k98 mauser it is stamped byf 43. I know all about the mftr dates and places etc, but mine has a B stamped on the reciever between the byf and the 43. does anyone know what this is about. Also I am in search of a complete stock for the same
The stamp l ooks like this

BYF
B
43
I know what the plant is and what the year is but not the B.

[rovert97]

i have a really nice bfy 44 Mauser. of the 1,434,219 or so built that year at the plant, mine was number 23,000 something.

http://mauser98k.internetdsl.pl/kodyen.html will help ident the gun, but i have no idea what that extra B is for.

ive been shooting mine with some 1940 headstamp ammo made by FN, steel cored stuff, got a 3 shot group of about an inch and a quarter at 100 yards the other day.

[PA Rifleman]

I have a k98 mauser it is stamped byf 43. I know all about the mftr dates and places etc, but mine has a B stamped on the reciever between the byf and the 43. does anyone know what this is about. Also I am in search of a complete stock for the same

BYF=Mauser arms plant (Waffenfabrik)
43=1943.

[cosmo1000]

Yes I know what plant it was made inand what yr. this however has a capital B stamped under the byf and over the 43 looks like this

BYF
B
43