It's that time of year again, the game is afield and the hunters soon will be. As excited as we all are about the upcoming fall hunts, it's this time of year that many finely crafted Mauser rifles are neglected in favor of "modern" rifles, rifles with no soul, a mere shadow of their historic fore bearers(a poor one at that). Don't let this happen on your watch. Carry a piece of history with you this fall, you will be glad you did. In closing, we ask you to post a picture of a Mauser YOU will take hunting this fall, thank you again for your support and, as always, adopt a rescue Mauser today.


Last years buck, hoping for a repeat this year with the old 8x57.

Nice buck, nice Mauser.

More into on the stock and action.

DF

Don't know if we got any pictures of it on the hunt, but cheesy use his JC Higgins M50/51 30-06 on his doe antelope hunt this fall. FN action sold by sears in the 50's. It was in a cheap tupperware stock when he got it,with a Timney trigger, bought a nice M51 stock here on the classifieds and it all went together real well. The doe didn't appreciate the classic he used.

My JC Higgins M51-L 308 from a few years ago. Husky HVA action which is an updated version of the M96 Mauser crossed with the M98. Has the third lug, full M98 length, but retains the small ring diameter.

I just returned from Kentucky, where I shot my first whitetail. I got it with my American Mauser, the 1903 Springfield...Best tasting deer I have ever eaten...

1909 Argentine , Douglas bbl 240 Wby......

I used my full stocked 8X57 to kill a mule deer buck again this year. Bang Flop........get out the knife.

I have no pics to share, but the old Mauser is still doing it's job with excellence.

I'm going to dig my 71/84 Mauser chambered in .43 Spanish out of storage and try for a deer with it this season.
Jerry

Higgins 50/51 .30-06 dad referenced above on my doe a few weeks ago.

Love this thread and these old guns.

I gave my good bud this old '42 Springfield that I had in my safe for years. It had the Fajen stock and Timney trigger when I bought it. I got David Christman to alter the bolt, drill and tap for scope. I found a Buehler type safety on Ebay for $12, got David to fit it.

Bud's made a bunch of one shot kills, is fond of the gun. He named it Dusty Springfield. I had some 130 gr. Hornady loads for my HVA '06 project, loaded some for him. The 130 gr. shoots at around 3,100 fps, will blow thru a WT, does the trick on hogs and 'yotes.

I put his Leupold scope on it. I had this Bushnell 4200 3-9x40 on my Marlin Cowboy 45-70. Was shooting it this PM and the erector system won't adjust. Will put note on Optics Forum for advice on Bushnell warranty. In a situation like this, I wish it was a Leupold....

DF

VZ-24 in a McSwirly, NOS Yugo 48 barrel, DT trigger, wisner safety. It has a Meopta Artemis 4x32 with Butler Creek caps now.

i have an Iver Henriksen rifle built on a Husky 1640. I’m taking it this weekend.

Last year.

This is my rifle for this year! VZ-24 action, .35 Whelen barrel from Pac-Nor, Stainless 1-12" twist, Boyd's JRS stock reshaped by our own Karnis, now wearing at Vari-X III 2.5-8 scope, shooting 250 gr Hornady's. Had it a long time never killed anything with it so going to tote it until it gets bloodied.









Mike

Understated elegance, if you don't like that you have no soul.

The Mauser from Hell did a very nice job on this buck



It's a sporterized K98

I've got 20-something Mausers to choose from- - - - -some in original milsurp condition, others sporterized. The older sporter made from an 1891 Argentine engineers' carbine is one of the more interesting ones. Back when Turk Mausers were selling for $29.95 for complete rifles in shooting condition I bought 30 of them to sporterize. I've got 10 or 12 of those left.
Jerry

I have a soorterized 91 Argentine mauser with butterknife bolt handle. It looks cool but bolt handle not comfortable. What to do?

The 91 is a "cock on closing" action. Try trimming one coil off the firing pin spring to reduce the closing effort a little. If that doesn't work have somebody weld on a conventional round knob handle.
Jerry

Don’t know when it was made, but it’s marked 25 Niedner. I get 3/4 groups with the only load I’ve tried.

Mod 70 ot6 on top.
Post WW2 Sako customized Kar98 8mm mauser on bottom
which I will be carrying.
Dont need no sneaker comments
LOL!!!



Shoots 196gr PPU SP,s like this off bench and bags on 3 power at 100 yds.
Kinda a mild round at around 2350ish.


Sunday I went out and shot a box of Sellier &Bellot 196gr SPCE
2592 fps per box.
Bench and bags 100 yds 3 power sunday and monday morning.
Big difference from the PPU stuff.
Got it home copper cleaned the barrel sunday afternoon.
Went out next morning wanting to see where the cold clean bore shot went and then a boresnaked x3 shot went.
Someone left a shoot and see target down the 100 yd line.
Slight 5 to 7 mph R to L wind intermittent.
1st shot cold clean bore right at the 9.
Boresnake x 3 2nd shot little more left and little higher
Brought the target home stuck it on a peice of cardboard , cause I like to look at it.
Use it early next fall to shoot again to confirm zero.


Went home did a real light hoppes # 9 cleaning and snaked the barrel x 3.
Let alot of inside the ears 8pts walk last year with the mauser.
Been seeing a nice 10 this year.
Carry the mauser till i fill my 1 remaining buck tag.
Then carry the ot6 to kill does with.

At least those sneakers aren't white velcro.......

Yep!!!
Hahaha!!!

Last evening here at the ranch. Archaeologist son scored this buck tonight with a Husky (FN 98 action) 30-06.
We wholeheartedly support the use of Mausers in hunting and shooting activities!

Nice!!!
Congrats big time!!!

Been in his shop twice. Great guy who did excellent work.

From earlier posted trip.

29 Sep 2019. Husqvarna 98 action, Douglas .35 Whelen AI barrel, Unknown old fiberglass stock, Leupold 1.5x5 VXIII.

Those are nice rifles. My SIL has one in 30-06 that belonged to his late father who was killing in an accident when Jeff was 12. I had it it fixed up for him a couple yrs ago getting the tang crack repaired, refinished and bedded. That thing now shoots 3/4" groups with factory ammo. VG rifle.

I have two FN-98s in JC Higgins M-50s. One is now becoming a full custom 275 Rigby (Rigby Highland Stalker clone) and the other will probably get to be a 9.3x62 some day.

I like many types of firearms, but looking at my rifles, I think it's safe to say Mausers are my favorite bolt actions.
My Mausers are :
25-06
Two 270 Winchesters
Two 30-06s
300 H&H
8X57
Two 9.3X57s
9.3X62
375H&H
404 Jeffery

12 in all.

I love Mausers

A3-03s count?



Friend from church hosted us at their farm where I did some crop damage removal with 100 Gr TTSXs & 4755 doing 3400-ish was just what I needed to flip the switch DRT.

Love this rifle; customizing old bubba’d military rifles is a labor of love 💕!

Four Mauser action rifles adorn my Gunsafes. All are commercial mausers, but very fine rifles, all.

#1 - Husky 1640 in 8x57JS
#2 - Parker Hale M81 Classic, in 308 Norma Magnum [Santa Barbara Action]
#3 - Identical twin to #2 above, but a bit nicer lumber.
#4 - Custom built rifle, built on yet another Santa Barbara Action. Benchmark 26" 1-9" twist barrel
also chambered 308 Norma magnum. This rifle shoots 200 AB or Partition or A-Frames into ½ moa
right out to 500 meters + if i do my part.

These are all "workhorse" rifles, and have all taken game, mostly moose and elk, but the 8x57 has several
Black Bears to it's credit, all one-shot kills.
What is not to like about those Mausers?? Regards, Dave..

From two years ago, finally took the ole Chilean 95 out.

Opening day Missouri, State land!

One shot at 90 ish, Bang, pivot, Flop!

No pictures but there's a few pre-WWI and WWII sporting Mausers in the toy box. A 9 X 57 Sauer & Sohn, 8 X 57 (.318 groove) Strover,, 9 X 71 Peterlongo by Johann Peterlong in Innsbruck, 9.3 X 57 Mod. 46 Husqvarna, 7 X 64 Brenneke by Wilhelm Brenneke in Berlin….and it seems I'm missing a couple....

Almost a Mauser, JC Higgins M51-L built on a Husky HVA action chambered in 308. The HVA is a modified small ring mauser stretched to M98 length with many of the features of the M98.The same action as the Husky 1640 rifle. This is one of 3 does I took with the rifle last fall using cast 180 gr bullets at roughly 2150 fps. Doe was nearly head on, impact was at the shoulder/neck crease, exit is under the rifle in the picture.

have 1 with the Mauser action
a weatherby 300 mag
the attachment manager claims the picture is too big

275 Rigby arrived this week. May need another down the road.

That is a beautiful rifle.

My prime elk rifle is a .35 Whelen on an Oberndorf milsurp. Back up rifles are a commercial FN 30-06, commercial FN .270, several J.C. Higgins in 30-06 and a 7x57 based on a J.C. Higgins M50 that was at one time a .270. Latest acquisition is a Husqvarna 640 barreled action in 30-06 that I've cobbled into a stock to see how it shoots. If I like they way it shoots I'll have it put into a decent stock and hunt it hard.
It probably would have beem simpler to just say all my serious hunting rifles are based on Mauser actions. Nuff said?
Paul B.

My one and only Mauser just happens to be my all time favorite rifle. It's a 1952 FN Mauser 98 in factory 7X57. Great shooting rifle with 160 grain Partitions and H4350 powder. Only problem is that when I bought it, it came in an UGLY Interarms Mark X stock. I want a nicer stock for it, but funds just won't allow me to indulge myself right now.

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I'm taking my one & only Mauser in 9x57 out to Wyoming this fall for elk season. It'll be my primary gun, but I do plan on having my little Remington .358 for back up.

Don't have as many Mausers as i used to. In the time I have left to hunt, I plan to use just my favorites and I've been getting rid of what my family isn't interested in. I've owned many over the years and have seldom been displeased with them.

Robtattoo, I was shooting my 9X57 this morning before it got too hot. I decided to make it into a dedicated cast bullet rifle and am zeroing in on my hunting load. Looks as though it will be a 250 gr FP with powder coating at a little over 2000 fps. Don't have elk in Alabama, but I think it'll work on our whitetails! Unfortunately, mine is not a fine old original like yours. It has a Shilen .358" barrel on a FN action. It worked well with a Hornady 250 RN on this buck:

Taking my husky 640 in a 06 on the upcoming 40 mile caribou hunt. Hunt starts on 10 August.

I have far fewer than szihn and I mostly hunt M70's and Kimbers. Even so, I still like my Mausers. My gunsmith thinks the .308 Norma is particularly well made.

1894 Swede Carbine in 6.5x55, new sporter stock, modified for scope use, cock on opening Dayton Traister conversion and trigger. Burris 2-7x35mm scope,
98K Mauser sporterized, rebarreled to .243 Winchester. Carved wood and a plastic stock as well. B&L Scope.
98 Mauser sporter, 7x61 S&H Super, 26 in Medium heavy barrel. The action has the cutout for the thumb and the safety on the left side. ction has commerccial markings though. 6-18x40 Redfield.
FN 98K 1940 vintage. Sporterized and rebarreled to .35 Whelen, wood and plastic stocks, Gentry 3-positon safety, removeable peep and iron sights as well as a 2-7 Leupy.
FN commercial 98 Mauser, factory .308 Norma Mag, side safety, by Interarms. Scope is a 3-9x40 Leupold with LR dots.
I would like a LW .270 next.

I love Mausers! I have a VZ-24, a G33/40, a short ring Mexican Mauser which are all still in the project stage. The one pictured is a 1909 Argentine 98, in .270 Win., built by Jim Coffin in Albany, OR. It sports a 24" Krieger barrel, Gentry 3 position safety, Biesen one piece bottom metal, butt plate and grip cap, rust blue and oil rubbed stock. Jim did the stockwork. He was going to build two others, but sadly came down with terminal cancer and passed away.

I used the rifle shortly after I got it to take a nice muley in Colorado. After Jim passed away, I couldn't bring myself to take it out in the mountains and give it "character" so it took up residence in my safe. Jim always said, "Life is too short to hunt with an ugly gun." So this year I planned to dust it off on an Antelope in Wyoming. Unfortunately, I did not draw this year, so it looks like I'll have to wait until next season.

Here area few pictures...if I can get them to load. Good to see other Mauser fans enjoying their rifles too!

Very nice!

This “campfire special” has been in the works for a long, long time. At least 9 years. Can’t wait to take her out into the woods.

LR98 chambered you 6.5x55 Swede. Haven’t even gotten a 3-shot group on paper yet.





Boyd’s JRS Classic in upgraded French walnut purchased semi-inlet for my first-ever custom along with the “meh” anodized aluminum bottom metal from Brownells with the pronghorn molded into it. MJBGALT sold me the action a long time ago, Boatboy sold me the 1.5-6x Sightron, JKob sold me the Wisner safety, and I can’t remember who sold me the Apex Rifle Company take-off tube.

The real mastery, which will come as no surprise to those who’ve been here long enough to remember him, was the stock work by Karnis who put it on a serious diet, refined the shape w/ grip scallops, added the ebony end cap and red decelerator. Grasshopper, another long time contributor here, referred me to the gent in Central Michigan who did an outstanding job on the the wrap-around checkering.

Bold trigger, jeweled bolt by Skip Baldwin, and parkerizing done by a client of mine.

Hoping to get a super mild load of IMR-4895 under a 123 GR SST or AM shooting lights out for deer this fall.

There just is nothing better than being hypnotized by a gorgeous stock in my lap as I breathe in the fall air waiting for da turdy point buck to show himself!

That right there is a beautiful example of the gunsmiths trade!

Good luck in the draw & hunt!

That is a Classic Beauty!

Truth about a beautiful stock...they sure are nice to look at, even better to bring to your shoulder!

TROOF!!

Nice pics, and nice rifles!

I will be pulling out my Mauser from the safe to hunt this season...but which one?

The Mauser 1943 K98K...The BRNO Czech 98/22, in original military stock, or the BRNO Yugo VZ-24, in original stock, but scout scoped?

i love old ammo story's, old school cool!

Taking a 6.5-06, built on a Dumoulon action out this weekend.

Took my LR98 6.5x55 Swede out for opener and got her bloodied:

I'm hoping someone here can help me identify this gun or tell me anything about its history. I inherited it from a great uncle who passed away. It's been in my family since at least the 1950's if not earlier. I was told it's a 30-06 but there's no barrel stamp and I haven't fired it and won't until I'm sure. I'd appreciate anything anyone could tell me about it or any resources that could point me in the right direction.

It is a sporterized German k98. There are more markings under the front scope base that would tell you which factory manufactured it and when. It was rebarreled as part of the sporterization as it doesn't have the original step-contour barrel.

That's about all I can tell from those pics. Looks like a solid rifle!

Thanks! Appreciate the help.

Thanks for your help. I have not taken the scope off the top of the receiver yet. I'll need someone's help to do that as I don't have matching screwdrivers and am pretty inexperienced. I did have a gunsmith look at it today and found some more markings (attached if anyone knows what they might mean). The gunsmith said it was likely 1937-1939.

WWII German(most likely) The info you want is under that scope base, if it hasn't been scrubbed.

That is a beautiful stock to me. What is it? It looks like hand rubbed oil in the photo. My be my nostalgia meter pegged, but I like it

Mongrel

We are leaving now for an elk hunt, with my Mauser in 300H&H and my wife's Mauser in 30-06.

Hold hard and shoot straight! Stay safe!

Mongrel,
That is a stock I made myself from Oregon black walnut, the finish is thinned epoxy applied to a heated stock blank... helps the epoxy soak in. Then it is wet sanded and a few coats of oil applied on top.
Makes for a traditional yet weatherproof finish. The metal on that rifle is graphite black Ceracote...

Did you have the action reheat treated or hardened on 1909 or ran it as is? Nice rifle by the way.

1911A1,
No I didn't have it heat treated, the 1909 are known for being soft, yet thousands are out there and still working fine. I have another 1909 in 338 mag and have had no setback in either.
Many trusted experts claim no need to re-heat treat, others claim it as cheap insurance, so far so good for me.

Thanks for the info. I'm pretty sure mine has not been re heat treated.

Mine wasn't re heat treated either but i shoot it at what mule deer calls "burrito fart" pressures so i should be fine unless a little guacamole gets in the mix lol

I started reading this post and it started me thinking what game I have shot that wasn't done with a Mauser! Other than a Win Mod 94 30-30 for my first deer in 1957 and a couple deer and one antelope with my dad's 03-A3 Springfield 30-06 I have used nothing but Mausers. Most were sporterized military Mausers and the rest were Commercial FN Sears, Montgomery Ward and others in 30-06. In my later years, I still shoot all Mausers, but in a lot of different calibers. The last Elk I shot last year, was shot with a 30-06 on an Argentine action!
I have almost quit hunting, but when I do go out for Antelope or deer, I use a Mauser (Sears FN) chambered in 257 Ack. Improved.
My two boys also use Mausers and one Ruger 77.
I guess there is no reason to change now!
A good friend jokingly named me Kennymauser!

Judging from the four-digit serial number in connection with the letter in addition to the serial number the gun isn't one of the models manufactured later during WWII. The four-digit serial number in connection with a letter was used to confuse the allies about the total number of K98k made under the Versaille treaty. A 100,000 man army doesn't need hundreds of thousands of rifles and so the Nazis avoided unpleasent questions by the inspectors about a number of guns not needed for a small army.

Need more pics of your Mausers!

Following this thread I've been smithing Mausers for some time now.

SS marked 98 custom in .35 Whelen. Beautiful gun, crap weather, heck of a good time.

My friends bought me a new Mauser M18 and it is a fine rifle, 243 that I am still working. Need to buy new brass soon, they gave me used stuff of all brands.

Does a Husky count? Here’s a 1640 chrome plated and worked over by Satterlee. If those pigs I hear in the distance squealing come out it will get at least it’s second kill.

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1903 Turk Mauser 260 Bartlein barrel, 1/2" (3) shot group at 100 yards, to sight in.


shot a deer Monday, 8 days ago.

Taking this 06 out this weekend G33/40 action

I like that. You should post more pictures of that. And trade it to me lol. I’m sure I have something you would like.

This year so far, one of my Mausers was used to kill 2 Antelope. It's my featherweight 25-06. Other game this year has been shot with a Savage 99 in 300. I still have tags to fill, and if I take a Mauser for them I'll use either my M46 Swede in 9.3X57 or my full-stock 8X57. But there is a good possibility I will choose a 35 Remington M141 or maybe a Remington M81 in 300 Savage. Or my Mannlicher 6.5X54.....or maybe my Lee Speed(ish) sporter in 303.

Decisions decisions....................








I like having this problem.

I used my Husky to kill about a 200# bar hog this morning. Stepped out of the deer stand to stalk up on a group across the field. Got within about 35 yards or so when a satellite pig I didn’t see spotted me and spooked the sounder.

I busted the bar (I thought it was a big sow) running dead away with the 208 gr ELD-M out of the 30-06. Crippled his back legs with a wound you couldn’t have stuff a soft ball in, then finished him off with my 475 Linebaugh as he was crawling around on his front legs.

He was about to die from blood loss anyways and was bleeding frothily from the mouth already, telling me the bullet had reached the lungs, but I wanted to see what the Linebaugh would do on that size pig broadside shot.

Sweet rig

The FN-98 gets the nod this week.

I like that rifle too much to let it go. It shoots really great, fits me perfectly.

Wait a minute Hanco, isn't that the rifle you promised to me...I distinctly remember...!

Been on juries a few times.

“ I don’t recall” is the only safe answer.

Don't blame you, I wouldn't part with it either.

Always enjoy smithing Mausers. This is an M98 chambered in 204 Ruger

Does a M12 Mauser count? Last Sunday with the 308 Win.

Very nice buck, what state was he taken in?
To me an M12 is not a "real" mauser, though branded as one! (tongue in cheek!)

Lovely rifle.

Details?

Some very nice rifles in this thread.
Recently got this and will hunt with it.
Kurz mauser in 250 savage.

I like Mauser rifles, but only have four, a 798 in 7 mag, the G33/40 in 30-06, a 25-06 Husky, a Doumolin Mauser in 6.5-06.

Cool rifle!

Far north Texas. Yep, a Mauser made in Germany...

Likely my favorite Mauser. A Swede in 7x57.

Ed, that's a brute of a whitetail !

Congrats !

Love it

Very nice buck

Thanks. I did not realize the rack as I did not realize it was a 200+ pound deer...

Damn Ed!!! Thats a great deer! Congrats

VZ-24


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I used my sporterized WW II era german mauser in 30-06 on my cow elk hunt this past fall. I call it a family heirloom, just not from my family. I own a safe full of more modern rifles but none with more soul than this one. Imagine my response when my guide wanted me to use his plastic stocked rifle with a suppressor so the elk wouldn’t spook and we could shoot two out of the same heard! A 180 grain partition did the job, opened up great at modest ought six velocity and was under the hide on the har side.

That is an absolute corker of a rifle!

Can we see some more photos and a story please?

Have to dig up some photos of my 1913 H&H 375 Belted Mag on a Magnum Mauser action.

Yes. I will, bought this rifle from Mule Deer not long ago. I always wanted a G33/40 rifle, got lucky, saw it a little after he posted it in classifieds. He said the maker unknown, possibly German made. It fits me perfectly, thankful to own it, ain’t never selling it.

It is a stand-out isn't it.

Siamese Mauser 45-70 conversion. Barnes 300 grain TSX. Cow bison in Wyoming 150 yard shot.

Hard to follow a buffalo with a doe deer:(



Commercial Husqvarna I restocked and rebarreled to 6.5-06

Got another G33/40 in 257 Roberts to go with the 06. Eager to shoot it.

A little checking on that 257 Would really dress it up. And, it will kill better too!

I’m thinking the same thing. Gonna get that done soon.

Mexican 1910 with a Douglas XX .308 barrel installed by Dick Williams a while back, new bolt handle, low power Leupold in a well used NOS glass stock. Very accurate with 150 gr. Nosler Ballistic Tips.

Currently wringing out a VZ24 with a Brownells 6.5 x 55 barrel, new bolt handle, 3.5 x 10 Leupold, in a Bell and Carlson stock. Trying to finesse some loads with IMR 4451 and Hornady and Barnes monolithic gr bullets. Just had it matt finished blued and it doesn't seem to be grouping as well as it did before.

How much did that cow weigh? That is a big hump.Congratulations.

Good luck. Shoot em in the pump.

My 1903 Siam Mauser converted to 45/70 may well see action this year.

One that followed me home recently




257 Bob, AI





ya!

GWB

Taking a husky 6.5x55 and a turk 243 out this fall. Will have to get some pics up.

Damn! That’s a Beauty! As is that knife too. Who made that one?

I have no idea who smithed' the rifle. The knife is by Rick Menefee. The scales are mammoth ivory and IIRC the blade is W-2 steel with a hamon.

ya!

GWB

I have a buddy that has a small gunsmith-retail shop. Said he had an old Mauser sporter. I went by and verified that it was an older build. I had to take it home as the was a 270 with aperture sights. It has not been drilled and tapped for scope bases. It is a VZ33.

Lucky you Butch! Green with envy here!

Butch, I just picked up an FN .30/06 made in 1952. It’s drilled but the rear hole spacing is a non-standard 3/8”, not 1/2, so that base would have to be customized to match. It’s possible that a bridge mount may fit, but for now I’m going with a red dot on the receiver while I search for a nice peep. No one makes one for the FN factory drilling now, so I’m on the hunt. Another member very kindly sent one “on approval” for me to try, but the holes didn’t match. I have a line on a Lyman 57FN, a factory sight I’m told. I’m hoping I can leave the front base on and still use a peep, so I have options. The red dot works very well and I can shoot it without glasses in a pinch.

Weight with the red dot is under 7.5 pounds.

Geedubya, that mammoth ivory is very cool stuff. I have a Damascus-bladed knife with it, scrimshawed by Kurtz Miller of Eureka Springs, AR, who gave me the knife and elephant hide sheath after his father passed. His dad was my very best friend and the knife one of my most prized possessions. Not a using knife though.

I never cared for all the extra steel on the end of the bolt. Cleaned up and the safety put on the side of the stock does make a better presentation. This is a 257 Roberts and a real nice rifle for deer and antelope...

Are those ticks coming off that deer above the knife handle? Sorry ever since I contracted Lyme disease 5 years ago I have become hyper vigilant for those cursed creatures.

Absolutely Gorgeous Mauser !!!!!!!!!!!

Here's my lineup, 2 on the right are mausers, far right is a sportered 7mm spanish, next one left is a 98 in .243 with a redfield widefield. The synthetic one is my typical rifle, howa gameking in 6.5 cm, and the other one is a mark v in 257 magnum. The 98 and mark v are new acquisitions to me, the spanish was my first rifle (was my grandpas) sights are bent on it so it doesnt go hunting much

Does this Mauser count?



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WOW! How cool is that!

That one with stock gets double points. Just a gorgeous example. Congratulations on a beauty.

Cool setup. Little bit of holster wear on the Mauser pistol too gives it a nice look.

Very cool backpacker setup. Ever quick draw on squirrels?

So, how much would you pay for a Mauser pistol like that with all the accessories in 9mm? What is it worth?

Not sure you are still around Pappy348? I also have an FN 30-06 made in 1952…would like to see a picture of yours. Mine has the rear peep and is also drilled for a scope. I have a couple different scope mount bases for it…

Apologize for the delay in reply - still learning my way around here. This one is a 1930s Commercial model in 7.63 Mauser and a fairly common gun. 9mms are much rarer and more expensive. The gun would be about $1500-$2000, original Mauser shoulder stock $500. Add 50% for 9mm. I reload and for hunting shoot .30 carbine soft point bullets. Its a good shooter up to about 100 yds.

Thank you

My first Mauser success with my Husqvarna .30-06. Was unsuccessful getting it on an elk this year so I decided to take it after a whitetail. Had both my boys (5 and7) with me so that made it even better.

Opening day in PA this last season. 30-06.

Not a single one that's still in military trim? Oof. I may take the 24/27 afield just to fix that problem.