Mausers!

[SaxonPig]

I admit to having a Mauser Jones. Can't get enough of them. Old ones... new ones... original or custom I love them all.

A couple...

 

[Scorch]

Gotta love 'em! I share your love for Mausers, IMO Mauser 98s are the best rifle action ever invented.

 

[oldscot3]

Love that BRNO sporter. I have a couple of '09 Argys and two BRNO made Persians, but nothing like that beauty.

 

[tahoe2]

Love them Mausers TOO!!

especially the Mannlicher, I'm rather partial to 8mm's(4) but the 7mm's(2) are growing on me. Still need a 6.5x55, a 7.65x53 and a 9.3x62




+1 oldscot3

 

[oldscot3]

The 09 calvary carbines(7.65Arg) are cool, a little hard to find in good condition these days.

 

[TABING]

Find yourself a Persian (Iranian) contract BRNO made in the 30's, some never shipped to Iran and sat in Czech for 60 years before being rediscovered, even the Nazis overlooked them. Considered the finest Mauser of all.

http://www.aliparsa.com/brno/brno.html

Got mine with all marching numbers and signed target and matching bayonet. NIB, unfired.

 

[Malamute]

I like Mausers. Had a couple in military trim, but my only interest was to make a sporter out of them. They're pretty clunky in military wood compared to a nice sporter. Its more practical to buy a commercial Mauser sporter than sport a military gun any more.

A Whitworth in 375 H&H. It has a Krieger barrel, cryo'd action and barrel, Lyman no 57 rear sight and Sourdough front. The action is bedded, and it has a Pachmayer Decelerator pad.

 

[xf9218]

peruvian mauser

Picked up a sporterized, not bubbaize, peruvian 30.06 mauser at a pawn shop about a year ago for 300 dollars. It has to be the most beautiful and sweetest shooting rifle I have. I could sell all my others but that one is my fav.

 

[Wyosmith]

Ahhh Mausers. Wonderful Mausers!

Overall they are my favorite action to build high grade hunting rifles on.

 

[SaxonPig]

This is my 375...

I agree on using a commercial action as a starting point. Cheaper, better end results, and original military guns are becoming too rare to cut up. I built this one a couple years ago and despite the newly manufactured action it is pretty "old school."

 

[krimmie]

My favorite gun in my dad's collection was a Mauser in 8x60...it had a Mannlicher stcok and some fancy engraving. He sold it when he split up with my mom back in the early 80's...wish he would have told me first.

 

[srtrax]

This one is a 338x284 with integral quarter rib, barrel sling stud and front ramp sight on a Mexican Mauser I'm building...needs checkered and blued yet.

 

[Jo6pak]

What? No Swedes?
What's wrong with you guys

 

[kawasakifreak77]

^ No doubt! ^

 

[Clark]

I have mostly converted 1903 Turkish Mausers and 1908 Braz Mausers, but here is a pic of some 7mm VZ24s and a pile of 8mm VZ24 and a VZ24 I converted to 7mmRM by welding the bolt handle, opening the bolt face, opening the feed lips, longer mag box, fiber glass stock, Lothar Walther barrel, drilled and tapped, etc.

 

[Doc TH]

They are all marvelous; superb actions, total reliability, excellent accuracy. I don't believe there is a bad one in the lot.

 

[SaxonPig]

My newest:

Bottom target was shot with the above rifle. Top target was shot with an older Mini Mauser for comparison. Pretty close.

 

[JHansenAK47]

What no 7.62 Israeli mausers?

 

[LOUD]

I feel at home on this thread, Mausers are in my opinion the finest bolt action rifles ever made!!!I love them ,they are my passion for firearms. I own maybe 40 or so almost all are sporting rifles , I have one in military form , a Swedish mauser 6.5x 55 .......LOUD

 

[Clark]

I have been buying Mausers on the cheap for 48 years.

The first VZ24 I found in a gun shop for $120. Some guy cut down and checkered the military stock.

The second VZ24 I got for $44 from Century and put a $44 Parker Hale Midland 300 Win Mag barrel from Numrich on it. The barrel looks hand lapped at the factory. My brother TIG welded the bolt handle for me. Jim Kobe fitted the M70 Type safety. Someone on the internet sent me the stock.