Steyr VK-98 8mm caliber rifle. Volkssturm VK-98-VG5 bolt action rifle. 21" barrel with a bright excellent bore and counter bored muzzle. The metal surfaces retain remnants of a hot immersion blue on the barrel which has drifted to a dull gray-blue, the stepped portion toning to a plum, while the receiver is more of a dark blue-gray, the rear ring drifting to plum. The receiver shows the appropriate “bnz45" marking, with “Mod98" marking on the ring ahead of the rear sight. The receiver exhibits hasty wartime machine markings overall and shows no evidence of having any other markings, neither present nor removed at any point, the matching precisely matches that seen in the work Desperate Measures the Last-Ditch Weapons of the Nazi Volkssturm.