Very nice. i have held 2 of such K98k rifles. One was a BYF from 1944 reciever and the other one from steyr itself ,The stampings were unalligned. Perhaps maybe the reason of the reciever being rejected, knowing how batshit crazy K98k quality controls were
As for shot out barrels, this is one way true, but keep in mind, german rifle barrels were extremely straight. The germans put in massive work to only accept straight rifle barrels. Even the slighest bend, and it was rejeccted and send back to the shop. Steyr had a whole bunch of these barrels stored, with no time to re-straighten them, and also used them in the VG5 rifles. But by no means does this mean that these rifles were inaccurate. perhaps at very long range did it became really noticable