I remember seeing tables full of Turkish Mausers back in the 90s at gun shows priced for less than $100 and nobody payed much attention to them. Now I seldom see one or two a year
When I was getting Turks for $54 out the door at BIG5 in 2001, Century was sending 4 Turks for $100 postage paid to C&R licence holders. That went on for a long time.
When I got my first Turk in 2001, I stayed up all night taking it apart, marveling at the design and machining of a 98 Mauser made in Oberndorf.
3 of us got shops set up to rebarrel Turkish Mausers. Now 18 years later we are old and gray, but Turkish Mausers changed our lives. One guy is working on cars, another tractors, and I am making chisel handles today.
