Interarms Mark X

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chuck46

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I just bought this Mark X 30.06, 24" bbl., nice walnut montecarlo stock, Pacmahr recoil pad, 5 rd mag w/ hinged floorplate, adjustable trigger. It was made for Interarms by Zastava in Yugoslavia in 1979. [I paid $450.]
I am trying to find out which model it is, also what the markings on top of barrel, just in front of the scope mean [6-21-67 CX-FX]
Can anyone help?
 
Don't know about the markings, but I've had two Mark X's. First was a 30-06 and it shot 7/8" all day long. I had it re-barreled to .280 and gave it to my youngest son. It shoots 3/4" all day long. Other was an action that I had Shaw put a 6.5-06 barrel on. Also shoots like the dickens. Only thing I don't like about them is the cheesy slide safety. One story about their safety. When I got the 6.5 back, Shaw had throated for 100gr bullets. I loaded a mid level 120gr load and had a complete head separation. No gas in the face - just hard bolt lift. Took it back to the Smith and he sent it back to Shaw with specific throating instructions. They checked out everything and it's still throwing 140 Hornadys @ 2935!
 
Mark X

Oh me next! me next!I have one it is an Alaskan model in ..............458 Win mag.Thus the name.Nice wood no sights only scope mounts,24in barrel and a 2 pound trigger pull.I picked it up for $375 several years ago.I load it with everything from 300gr hollowpoints to 500gr Lee lead nuggets over 86 grs of blackpowder.Thats neet let me tell you!
 
Mark X Mannlicher

Just last Friday I picked up a Mark X Mannlicher in 30-06. Also have a Mini Mauser same outfit in .223. Can't help you with any of the stamps on the barrel, but I believe they are nice rifles, mostly wood and blued steel, only cheapie part is the pistol grip cap, plastic unfortunatley.

You've got the particulars right, a commercial Euro Mauser, "improved" with the sliding safety and the extractor will jump a case rim.

Remington imported them most recently as the 798 or some such, not sure if they're available right now.

Compared to a new Ruger, Rem, etc, the used ones are a bargain and I like'em.

My .223 wants to be a shooter, but I need to address a bedding problem (that I created). Working up brass and initial loads for the Mannlicher.
 
Remington imported them most recently as the 798 or some such, not sure if they're available right now.
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European American Armory / US Sporting Goods (USSG), imports them as the Z98, although they come with synthetic rather than the wood stocks found on the older guns...
 
The MarkX's were among the most pleasingly finished Mauser rifles to hit the American market.

The barrel steel has been purported to be a little softer than other manufacturers, but this was mainly a complaint among the 375 H&H owners.

Jimro
 
I have a .280 Interarms Mark X with a Boyd's stock, Mauser action and a 26 inch Douglas barrel. Its an absolutely awsome rifle. Traded a friend of mine a Springfield XD-45 for it. Took it to the range yesterday and shot a 10 shot group that measured 1.342 at 100 yards. Awsome hunting rifle.
 
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I used to have one in '06... I think mine was a British one? Don't remember for sure. I agree on the cheezy side safety. I took a tumble while on an elk hunt with the rifle slung over my shoulder, chamber empty. I went over headfirst, and the rifle went off my shoulder and struck directly on the muzzle on the slippery rock. I checked it out, no damage to the rifling at the crown, just "road rash". Except.... the safety was broken internally. The way I discovered it? We had seen animals just over a ridge, and I was climbing up through some brush, cartridge in chamber, safety on, and a branch snagged the trigger while I had the rifle in my right hand, pointed vertically, about a foot and a half away from my ear. :eek: Yes, Virginia, a 30-06 is loud.
Anyway, enough of my foolishness... I really liked the rifle. Very well made, very smooth, accuracy was way better than needed for a hunting rifle. It was too shiny for my taste, and probably would have dulled the stock and bead-blasted the metal, if I had kept it.
 
If it was a British rifle it was probably a Parker Hale. I still have mine in 270. Purchased it brand ne back in 1978. With a Redfield 3-9x for a whopping $150.00. The Blue got worn on it. So I parkerized the action and the barrel.
 
I'm fairly certain it wasn't Parker Hale... It was an Interarms, and I'm pretty sure it was stamped "manchester". I assumed it meant Manchester, England.

Either way, it was a nice rifle.
 
I have a barreled action in 22-250 I bought about 1969. Bought a nice stock blank from Herters in fiddle back maple. After HOURS of fitting, sanding, staining (red, with water based black powder stain) I finally had a pretty nice looking rifle for my 8 year old son. Trouble is, he is 50 now and hasn't touched a rifle in years.
About a year and a half ago I tried to find a composition stock that would fit me. Ordered three different ones, but none would fit. Carried the floor plate around with me for a long time and tried all the stocks I could find. Nothing fit.
I had a FFL at the time, and if I recall I ordered it directly from Interarms.
Anyone have any suggestions as to a source?
 
Interarms Mark X Mausers came in several different finishes: the Viscount (no forend cap/pistol grip cap, two-stage trigger, brownish satin varnish finish), and Marquis (forend cap, pg cap, adjustable trigger, sling swivel studs, varnish finish), and Whitworth later in production (forend and pg cap, adjustable trigger, sling swivels, oil finish look, although I am sure it was a sprayed varnish of some sort). Some of the Whitworth rifles came with an unusual stock, had a piece of harder wood laminated in right down the middle. Mark X Marquis rifles also came as a Mannlicher with a steel forend cap and nicely finished. All in all, Mark X rifles were pretty nice, even compared with Winchesters, Rugers, and Remingtons. And they usually shot very nice.

Towards the end they got pretty cheesy, the stocks were made out of some kind of hardwood and painted or dipped for camo effect. By then Interarms was having troubles, so they cut corners where they could.

Interarms had offices in England, so they stamped their firearms "Manchester, England", Interams logo, then "Alexandria, Virginia" at least through the late 1980s.
 
I bought an Interarms Mark X in .25-06. There doesn't seem to be much info on these things, I think mostly because it was a British company with factories in Yugoslavia to make these things. Kind of a shady deal to begin with. Solid rifle none the less.
 
I bought an Interarms Mark X in .25-06. There doesn't seem to be much info on these things, I think mostly because it was a British company with factories in Yugoslavia to make these things. Kind of a shady deal to begin with. Solid rifle none the less.
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Interarms was a huge firearms importer that had offices in Birmingham, England and Alexandria, Virginia. Zastava still is a large firearms manufacturer in what was then Yugoslavia, now Serbia. Interarms eventually went out of business, but there was nothing "shady" about the Mark X.
 
I have owned two Mark X's, one in .270, one in .243 win, (daughters graduation rifle) What I know is that the Zastava factory is still cranking out rifles. If you look them up they have a nice web-page and what-not. As Scorch eluded, there are different makes and models, different importers for the Mark X.

What I know from experience is that my brother bought and stocked barreled actions, and they're exactly what he used,(price was right and very accurate)he built a .270 win. Whitworth, a 22-250, and a .223 rem, "mini-mauser" all of which turned out really super and shot extremely well. He told me the Whitworth factory only chose from the best of these actions, and inspected them to the highest degree for quality, those that passed recieved the Famous Whitworth stamp. (could be hockey, but it could be true). I would love to have one in every caliber.;)
 
Zastava

I could be wrong but i believe Remington was importing Zastava rifles under their name for a few yrs just recently,cant remember the rifles name but they wanted a piece of the mauser market. I own one in 243 and it is a shooter,only paid $200 for it used.
 
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