Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Zastava rifles with Mauser action???

Anyone have any reports on any of these? Don't care who was importing like Charles Daly, or Remington or Mark X ...just curious about how they shoot. Looking at one in 7.62x39...

Thanks!

I have two in 7.62 and both shoot great. One is a Charles Daly and the other an Interarms. I have loaned then out to numerous dads and have made many dads and kids happy when they collected first deer. 30-30 type performance for small frame shooters with little recoil.

We get them here in Australia and they have a great reputation for shooting well. Sometimes a little TLC is required on the action & the trigger.

My only comment is the wood stocked ones are a tad heavy but the synthetics are great.

Thought you were thinning the herd.....

George

Hey George! Ahhhh...yeah...you know how that goes!

Laffin'....but yeah!

MLG...I did read they do import a bunch down under...not so much here in the states and most I see are wood stocks.

The rife pictured below is built on an Interarms Mark X (Zastava)action. 6.5-06AI, Kreiger barrel, Boyd stock, Timney trigger. This was the rifle that got me hooked on shooting clay pigeons at 600 yards.



Here's the range where I shoot. The long, dark horizontal line in the distance is the shadow of the 500 yard target boards. The lighter line behind it is the shadow of the boards at 600 yards.



Here�s a view through the scope, looking at the 500 yard steel. You can just make out an orange blur slightly above and about 8 feet to the right of the steel at 600 � those are 4 clay pigeons. (They show up a lot better in the higher resolution version of this picture.)

Should be lots of NIB Remington M799s floating around in 7.62x39mm.

Zastava has been making Mausers even longer than CZ. You could do a whole lot worse for the money. I have looked long and hard at them myself.

I'm not at all sure Zastave commercial Mausers (or Mauser facilimilies for the purists) with external claw extractor have been available in 7.62 Commie. But I'm not the last word on that. The cartridge was however chambered in what Interarms termed the Mini-Mauser. I have been told by a semi-retired riflesmith that these are copies of the Sako Vixen (IIRC). The extractor on the Mini-Mauser and later the Charles Daly and Remington 799 are nothing like the 98 style extractor.

Fine rifles for the money$, although a tad rough.....

Not a lightweight rifle!, but that is personal preference.....

My 9.3 shot pretty well!

I would not buy another due to the weight but like I said. Personal preference

I have a Remington 798(Zastava action)in 375 H&H mag. With nothing more than a trigger job and a 2.5-8 Leupy I shot some handloads at 200yds today. 1 1/4 inch 3 shot group.

these are now imported by K-Var, of all people!

Who is K-Var???? I have found them made by Arsenel Inc.

Jealous of you guys with some long range available!

Mike

If I stick to stictly the 7.62x39 platform in a bolt action, the choices are slim and pricey. CZ 527 is $650+ (had one and should have kept it!!!)...Savage model 10 FCM Scout $650+...Ruger 77 Compact...$600+ gets pricey!

I've got 2 of the 799's.
A 7.62x39 and a .223. Both great shooters. Did a trigger adjustment and polished the bolt and raceways.
Added Weaver K6 scopes and have a blast with both.

Since Remington put such crappy laminate stocks on these, I just treat 'em as beaters.

The 7.62 is one of my all time favorite rifles. 150 yd. deer/hog rifle and yotes out to 200.

The Rem 799 in 7.62x39 is just a fun gun to shoot. Never really hunkered down and shot for serious groups but I have a blast using cheap Wolf steel cased soft point ammo. It shoots where I point it

I was just thinking about starting a thread on this subject when I noticed this one.

I just saw on grabagun.com that the Zastava 98s (listed as by Arsenal, Inc.) are for sale for $483. IMHO, that's a great deal for such a good rifle with a classic action, brand new, with a wood stock AND iron sights--which are hard to find on anything that isn't "safari" grade (and price) these days:

http://grabagun.com/arsenal-inc-zastava-m70-30-06-24-bl-wd.html

They have them in 243Win, 270WIn, 308Win, 30-06, as well as 22LR, 7.62x39, and a few others. The big game calibers are only with slightly hogback buttstock shape (like the CZ "battue" style), though. It looks as though the smaller calibers (at least per the pics) have the classic stock profile. In any case, it seems like a great deal to me!