My reading says that the Frenchicon reworked a lot of K98's post war and not just those from the captured factories. There were also entire units of French troops equipped with captured German Mausers during the war, including former resistance fighters, North African Vichy French troops (some of whom were equipped directly by the Germans prior to the Torch landings), plus stockpiles that would have been captured during the fall of Tunis where Leclerc's troops were involved. That's in addition to rifles surrendered by the Germans or located in German stockpiles in Italyicon, France and Germanyicon. They would have had a lot of rifles to work with.