Gamez235
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Not sure what why but towards the end of every summer I get this mauser itch... the hunt begins today for another.
Mauser season is upon us.... well, me anyways..
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Midnight Raver
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That one looks pretty nice, you need another one now? Maybe you can get one with a WWII scope on it next! :ugeek:
rotarymike
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It's always Mauser time 
Century had some in varying condition. Sarco has (supposedly) Yugo M24/47s and German reworks.
Good luck - it took me a long time to find a German K98k in reasonable condition.
My M24/47 might as well be brand-new, however. Great gun, albeit not as historical.
I'd bought receivers and built them into guns, milspec or commerical, in the past for very little & but those seem to be drying up as well.
Century had some in varying condition. Sarco has (supposedly) Yugo M24/47s and German reworks.
Good luck - it took me a long time to find a German K98k in reasonable condition.
My M24/47 might as well be brand-new, however. Great gun, albeit not as historical.
I'd bought receivers and built them into guns, milspec or commerical, in the past for very little & but those seem to be drying up as well.
Gamez235
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This was an M48 i got last year. I also have a BYF 44 that is mint. Vet bring back that I got at an estate sale for 250.00 when I was 19.... The score of my lifetime thus far.. But yes, looking for another..
rotarymike
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My german k98 isn't a bringback, but is a baltic capture as opposed to a russian capture. 1938 S/27 (ERMA) code, all matching except for bolt. Think it might be over headspace. Then again, my M24/47 (and all of them I looked at) shows excess headspace on gauges, but has no overpressure or case stretch when fired, so I'm more apt to blame gauges to some odd SAAMI print than I am a rifle with a new barrel.
Now... a harder find: 8mm ammo. Sarco or Samco Global has 50's Iranian, but I've heard bad things, and at $0.40/per, not worth pulling the powder and projectiles to load into newer cases and primers. Commercial is between $1/per (Privi, which admittedly is good stuff) and $2/per or more (commercial loadings, so weak anyway). I'm wondering if the Privi Partisan stuff is the last we'll see of cheapish 8mm. I do have the RCBS trim die to make 8mm from .30-06, but there aren't many .323 projectile choices and I'm not quite up to casting yet. Also, I have a semi-auto that doesn't like bare lead projectiles.
Good catch on the bringback, by the way.
Now... a harder find: 8mm ammo. Sarco or Samco Global has 50's Iranian, but I've heard bad things, and at $0.40/per, not worth pulling the powder and projectiles to load into newer cases and primers. Commercial is between $1/per (Privi, which admittedly is good stuff) and $2/per or more (commercial loadings, so weak anyway). I'm wondering if the Privi Partisan stuff is the last we'll see of cheapish 8mm. I do have the RCBS trim die to make 8mm from .30-06, but there aren't many .323 projectile choices and I'm not quite up to casting yet. Also, I have a semi-auto that doesn't like bare lead projectiles.
Good catch on the bringback, by the way.
Avtomat-Acolyte
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I have two ERMA's and a Turk.
Mauser bolt-action is the best bolt action.
Mauser bolt-action is the best bolt action.
rotarymike
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technically, I have the ERMA, the Yugo, two German receivers including a late war probably not heat treated well, a Chinese, and a Turk.
The Germans are being used for a target rifle in .30-06, the .45ACP suppressed delisle copy, the Chinese is a deer rifle in .30-06 to sell, and the Turk is my daughter's 6.8 SPC.
You could say I've worked with a few.
Best feel is by far the Yugo. Slick as owl poo and very accurate; I hope I can get the target rifle feeling and shooting the same.
I think I'm missing an Arisaka, an Enfield, and a Springfield and I'll have the WWII starter set. It's like pokemon for grown men.
The Germans are being used for a target rifle in .30-06, the .45ACP suppressed delisle copy, the Chinese is a deer rifle in .30-06 to sell, and the Turk is my daughter's 6.8 SPC.
You could say I've worked with a few.
Best feel is by far the Yugo. Slick as owl poo and very accurate; I hope I can get the target rifle feeling and shooting the same.
I think I'm missing an Arisaka, an Enfield, and a Springfield and I'll have the WWII starter set. It's like pokemon for grown men.
bigfutz
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I've come into this Spanish Mauser I don't know what to do with.
More pics here...
http://s1059.photobucket.com/user/bigfu ... S-SPANMAUS
More pics here...
http://s1059.photobucket.com/user/bigfu ... S-SPANMAUS
