Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Any Mauser 98 fans out there?

Wow...you've got great taste in rifles. Absolutely beautiful.

I lived there in the early 80's Only for a few months in Penticton and Salmon Arm..

I also lived in Vanderhoof for 9 months. I absolutely love that little town.

Irfubar, a couple of very nice mausers. I never tire of looking at your rifles, all very nicely done with some quiet elegance.

I think Mauser is the safest design out there. I’ve had a complete case separation before and I only felt a light peppering in my forehead. The cocking piece caught and deflected it all.

Except for weight, I just don’t see how anything more modern in a bolt rifle is an actual improvement. Bolt action rifles were pretty much perfected in 1898. There is only so much that you can do within those design parameters and mostly, it was all done with the 98.

Modern guns are an improvement in the sense they are cheaper to manufacture and dont require skilled labor to produce.

K98s and their variants are tough to beat. I prefer the VZ24 but any variant does nicely

None of that is really an “improvement” as far as the user goes, except that if any company were to make even a military Mauser nowadays, they would probably cost at least two or three thousand dollars.

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VZ24, 270 W.

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That's SWEET ! !

That's my fav stock design --- altho 'some' Monte Carlos don't mess it up much.

?? To me -- it's reminiscent of a well known stock maker's work ??


Jerry