Yugo Mauser questions

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Eric of IN

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I took my new Mauser to the range today, and now I have some questions.
1) The rear site appears to be adjustable for range, but I have no idea what kind of scale was used. The lowest setting is a "2". Is this 200 meters, 200 yards, or just an arbitrary number to represent short range?

1a) If it is 200 meters or yards, would the rifle tend to shoot high at 50 yards?

2) Is there a way to adjust the sites for windage, and if so how do I do it?

3) 2 flash holes in the empties mean it's berdan primed and can't be reloaded, correct?

4) Is anyone else having problems with dud primers in the Turkish mil-surp ammo? The Ecuadorian ammo from www.ammoman.com fired every time, but the Turkish went 11 for 15.

Thanks,
Eric

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Teach a kid to shoot.
It annoys the antis.
 
I'd imagine it's graduated in meters.

The front sight is drifted for windage.

Yep, not easily reloaded.

I haven't had any trouble with the Turk ammo. What kind of problems have you experienced?
 
1.The 2 is for 200 meters as you supposed, but only with the ammo that was standard in this rifle for the old Yugoslav army. People forget that fixed sights are good for one particular load only. With your ammo, you can only take it as an approximation of 200m.
2.It will shoot a little high at 50 yrds. Assuming you are using ammo similar to the original, it may be less than an inch high at 50 yds, maybe 2" high at 100 yds and then nearly right on at about 200 yds.
3. Most people would say that the 2 hole Berdan stuff is unloadable. I think that if you are really determined, you can, but I have never tried this and do not know how it would be done.
4. I see lots of complaints about misfires with Turkish and other foriegn military surplus ammo on Tuco's and the Turkish Mauser Forum. Apparently, it is quite common. Then there is a great deal of speculation as to whether it is the ammo or the rifle in that particular case. I don't fool around with this type of ammo any more, so I don't know. I'd rather reload my ammo so I can know what I am shooting. Also, I don't want to take any chances of shooting corrosive primed ammo in any of my rifles.
I suppose the military surplus ammo provides a lot of fun at the most reasonable cost, but how much do you learn by shooting it? Some things, I guess, but you learn a lot more about the rifle and the ammo when you reload.
 
Your misfires might be caused by gunk in the bolt slowing down the firing pin. If you can strip the bolt, do so and clean it thoroughly. If not, blast it hard w/ brake cleaner or GunScrubber, let it dry, and give it a shot of WD-40 and see if it helps.
 
I seem to be getting good primer hits. The pin mark is shallower on the mis-fires, but the primer is actually pushed in to the casing. (Yes, I did make sure they weren't already pushed in.) I washed the bolt in an oscillating parts washer filled with a mineral spirits based solvent, for about 2 hours, brushing the breech face with a copper wire brush on occasion, so I doubt there is any gunk left.

Thanks for answering my questions.
Eric


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Teach a kid to shoot.
It annoys the antis.
 
Is this the Nickle plated ammo? If so I have a problem with it as well. It has VERY hard primers and takes two hits sometimes to set of the round. I have the same problem.
 
I don't know about Yugo Mausers, but all German Mausers I've shot tend to shoot 6" high at 100 yards using surplus ammos (Lord knows from where).

Johannes
 
yUGO 48 mAUSER

Well let me first say that the turkish ammo is probably about 40+ yrs old so yeah your gonna get some misfires. As for the other ammo well im not sure since i havent had a chance to shoot any yet. As far as the sights go they are measured in meters, the standard for european countries.
 
Had the same rifle, same ammo, same problem. After I stripped and cleaned the bolt my misfires went from 3 or 4 per 20, to one in hundred rounds if that.

You can download a manual with take down instructions for the yugo/mauser bolt at http://www.mitchellsales.com/

It's very simple to do, and I'm the sort of guy who tends to walk to the gunsmith with a bag of parts on most things described as easy "Do it yourself" jobs :)

Good Luck, Blueduck
 
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