Huffmanite
New member
Been over a year ago, I accompanied a fellow range member to a gun show in Houston. He wanted to buy a military rifle that he could shoot in our monthly surplus rifle competition. While not an expert on them, am fairly knowlegable about them and own some decent surplus military rifles. So I was his adviser on what to buy.
At the show we found a dealer with three Mitchell's Mausers, still in its box and etc. We'd visited most of the dealer tables by then and hadn't seen anything I could highly recommend for him to buy. Ones we saw were either in too bad a condition or just too darn high priced.
The Mitchells were in very nice condition and one wasan early WWII manufacture and had what I thought was an Oberndorf code on the receiver. As I recall, all parts numbers matched on it and its bore was in very good condition. Told him to buy this one, so my friend haggled with the dealer. Dealer will throw in 3 boxes of 8mm non-surplus ammo and reduce price too. Think he paid around $425 for it.
When I got home I would check on the rifle's Manufacturing code to make sure I was correct. Ooops, I was wrong, it wasn't an Oberndorf made one, but a Sauer and Son. LOL, If I'd realized that I would have bought it because I already owned a darn nice Oberndorf.
At the show we found a dealer with three Mitchell's Mausers, still in its box and etc. We'd visited most of the dealer tables by then and hadn't seen anything I could highly recommend for him to buy. Ones we saw were either in too bad a condition or just too darn high priced.
The Mitchells were in very nice condition and one wasan early WWII manufacture and had what I thought was an Oberndorf code on the receiver. As I recall, all parts numbers matched on it and its bore was in very good condition. Told him to buy this one, so my friend haggled with the dealer. Dealer will throw in 3 boxes of 8mm non-surplus ammo and reduce price too. Think he paid around $425 for it.
When I got home I would check on the rifle's Manufacturing code to make sure I was correct. Ooops, I was wrong, it wasn't an Oberndorf made one, but a Sauer and Son. LOL, If I'd realized that I would have bought it because I already owned a darn nice Oberndorf.