These are the different rebuildt Mauser rifles present in my collection.
In 1947 the norwegian miltary decided they would use the Krag Jørgensen M1894 for the home guard. They soon concluded that all the remaining M1894 was in a rather poor condition, and they had to find something else. Since the army received the Garand rifle (SLG M1) and the US carbine (SLK M1) they concluded that the home guard should use the old Mauser M/98k left by the germans. They wanted to standardize the ammunition, so they decided that a lage number of M/98k should have a new barrel in 7,62x63 (30-06). A lot of minor re-constructions on the action had to be done so it would work with the longer cartridge. During this work they also got engraved HÆR (army), FLY (airforce), K.art (costal artillery) and KNM (Royal navy) on the left side of the action. A new serialnumber was also engraved at the same time. Some of the rifles delivered to the navy and most likely all rifles delivered to the costal artillery kept the old caliber, with was 7,92 (8x57). (Norway was extreamly poor back in those days, so they wanted to be able to use all the ammunition also left behind by the germans). The modified carbines received a new model name, M/98kF1. This work was done at Kongsberg Arms Factory during 1955-1958. It is not known how many rifles that was converted, but it is most likely close to 100.000 guns. The German mountain riflemen that was stationed in Norway during WW2 was equipt with the Mauser carbine G33/41. The Norwegian police used this rifle after the war.