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Yugo Mausers, any good?
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Badger Arms
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Yep. You can buy three for what a modern bolt-action costs and get a better made gun. Check the bore on the gun before you buy. That is the most common problem.
I like my 48 a lot. If you want to talk to a bunch of guys who have them, ask around on the Mauser discussion board at Tuco's, they're pretty good guns and a steal for the money. Here's Tuco's address:
http://www.mosin-nagant.net/
http://www.mosin-nagant.net/
I think they are great, compare well to both my German, (DWM) and Czech (Brno) mausers. I bought two, one for use and one for speculation, they will increase in value. I paid premium price for unissued, unfired in cosmoline rifles.
Shooting WWII vintage ammo, it shoots about one and a half to two inches at 75 yards, with iron sights, so it's probably capable of
the same with a scope at 100 yards. Good enough for battle rifle.
Shooting WWII vintage ammo, it shoots about one and a half to two inches at 75 yards, with iron sights, so it's probably capable of
the same with a scope at 100 yards. Good enough for battle rifle.
I would heartily recommend a Yugoslavian reworked German Kar.98k available from AIM Surplus in VG - Excellent condition for $99 (www.aimsurplus.com). The M48s I've seen are a lot rougher than a real Kar.98k, and I've personally experienced lots of extraction failures and difficulties in the M48s. I think the Kar.98 is a better gun than the M48, although the M48 closely mimicks the Kar 98.
Most of the Yugo Mausers I have seen are either K.98ks or Czech VZ 24s. I don't mean they look like K.98ks or are copies. They ARE K.98ks which were left behind when German troops surrendered in 1944-45. The Yugoslavs gathered them up and rehabbed them as necessary and stored them. They often ground off the original receiver markings and put on their own "flame" marking, but the rifles are German issue rifles nontheless. The VZ 24s are both German leavings and rifles bought by Yugoslavia in the between-wars period. They were/are the best Mauser 98s in the world, bar none.
Jim
Jim
Blue Duck357
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Jim you may know a lot more about this than me, but I was under the impression that the Yugo's actually used their own action (an intermediate length one) a tad shorter than the Germans but similar in all other respects.
Regards, Blue Duck357
Regards, Blue Duck357
Wow, Martowski, I've NEVER heard of anyone having extraction probs with the 48 before you. And lots of guys over on Tuco's have the things. Any chance it could have been the ammo? Or maybe it's a one-gun problem . . . ? There's certainly nothing wrong with a k98, though, but you won't find one in "new" condition very easily, and it's easy to find a 48 that way.
Blue Duck, it's the 48s and 48As that have the shorter action; it was designed to be exactly as long as the 8x57js requires. Other than that, they're pretty much 98ks (except for minor cosmetic differences).
Blue Duck, it's the 48s and 48As that have the shorter action; it was designed to be exactly as long as the 8x57js requires. Other than that, they're pretty much 98ks (except for minor cosmetic differences).