When you go to peddle that thing, it is almost inevitable that some damn fool will come up with something on the order of, "Them there Spanish rifles are weak and ya'll gonna shoot yer eye out".
In fact, there was such a rumor, and Samco and Interarmco hired an independent laboratory to test them and publish the results to put the rumors to rest. La Coruna '98 clones on average survived to 98,500 pounds before they were destroyed. I have heard what started the rumor, was some garage gunsmiths chambered 1893 and '95 Oviedo and La Coruna Mausers to .308, with predictable failures.
same rumors when they were selling Turk Mausers...
I bought Two of them in Missoula Montana at the Axeman. bunch of them supposedly had bad barrels or needed work...
I picked out two of them that looked in mega good shape.... Gave one to a nephew... and brought the other home...
Took it to a gunsmith and asked him what would it cost for me to fix whatever is supposedly wrong with it..
he takes it back in his shop, and looked it over and brought it back out, and told me it would cost me nothing... because there was nothing wrong with it and the barrel was in super shape...
I paid $75 with no sales tax for the pair of them I bought... to include both had the bayonets on them.. and dated 1945... 29 inch barrel.
or $37.50 apiece..... Tyler's dad took his in to a gunsmith in Billings and got the same response from him.. nothing wrong with it...
I've taken several deer with it.... same load I put thru the 8 x 57s I have ( 3 of them)....35 grains of SR 4749 with a 170 gr Speer SMP... or 35 gr of 4198...
a bolt action 30/30 or 32 Win Special Equivalent....but certainly knocks the snot out of any deer that I've take with it...using open sights...several at 200 yds...
