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That's a real beauty and a great catch. Can remember when surplus M98s could be had in the late 1950s, for around $50. But noting as tasty as the one in the pics.

Been a Mauser slut since i was a kid. Dad sent a VZ 24 (Brno) home at war's end. Straight bolt, unaltered except he cut the original stock back in the late 40s, for a deer rifle. Metal finish is very good. Killed a doe with it some years ago. Military V groove sights aren't for feeble eyes. Same for the 1903 US Rem (1942) w/original sights that I have. It is not an 03A3.

All of my other Mausers and variants thereof, have been sporterized. Including the the 1939 M98K my former employer brought home in 1945. Little metal finish left on it, but it's all matching numbers. Wish now I'd let it be? Also have the ol' boy's P38 AC41 w/matching numbers, even the magazine.

But I shortened the barrel on his M98, bolt reconfigured, drilled and tapped for scope bases. Timney trigger, low scope safety and Fajen walnut stock. It's very accurate with my loads and has killed several deer.

Also have a M98 small ring Mauser in 8x57. Think it's a Danzig? An FN M98 pattern action semi custom, that started life as a Columbian Army rifle in 30-06.


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Yeah, back in the day, sporterizing them was pretty standard practice, which is why they are so collectable now. Few were left in military configuration.

I have a really nice, professionally sporterized, German Mauser that was converted to .30-06. Beautiful rifle. I think it was sporterized between the world wars. Very high quality job. I think I'll take that one out and shoot it next.

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One of my neighbors lent me a beautiful M98 sporter years back. Nicely figured walnut stock, re-blued metal. Had a Lyman rear sight and was D/T'd, but he didn't know that had happened to the bases. Sights were spot on at 100 for factory 170gr ammo, which is fairly anemic stuff. Would've liked to have seen how it did scoped, because it was very accurate with the Lyman.

Fired a few of my 8x57 150gr reloads in it, that printed an inch and a half higher than the factory stuff.

Never got to hunt with it, he eventually wanted it back and refused to sell it.


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Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
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Nice gun. Please picture or describe the receiver markings and barrel proofs. Also is this a 100% serial number matching gun?

Yes, it's an all original German Mauser.

Receiver Markings:

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The meaning of the proofmarks:
U with crown means: Endbeschuss/final prooffiring

B with crown means: marking of foreign weapons and that is a little bit strange since the gun was made in Germany but probably reimported from a foreign state

G with crown means: rifled barrel

N with crown means: nitro powder proofed


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Originally Posted by ElmerKeith
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Nice gun. Please picture or describe the receiver markings and barrel proofs. Also is this a 100% serial number matching gun?

Yes, it's an all original German Mauser.

Receiver Markings:

[Linked Image]


The meaning of the proofmarks:
U with crown means: Endbeschuss/final prooffiring

B with crown means: marking of foreign weapons and that is a little bit strange since the gun was made in Germany but probably reimported from a foreign state

G with crown means: rifled barrel

N with crown means: nitro powder proofed

Cool. Thanks.

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Thanks for posting about your 1937OM. Being very partial to reworked ("sporterized"?) mil Mausers, the favorite among mine is the 1895 Chilean in 7x57 bought from the Sears mail catalog for $13 and change in 1962. A pure novice, I reworked it myself over a period of a year and took a desert mule deer with it in fall 1963. With its reloads, still drops 5 within an inch at 100 yds. Thanks again.


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Originally Posted by CCCC
Thanks for posting about your 1937OM. Being very partial to reworked ("sporterized"?) mil Mausers, the favorite among mine is the 1895 Chilean in 7x57 bought from the Sears mail catalog for $13 and change in 1962. A pure novice, I reworked it myself over a period of a year and took a desert mule deer with it in fall 1963. With its reloads, still drops 5 within an inch at 100 yds. Thanks again.

Cool.

I've got a Venezuelan Mauser 98 (made by FN between the wars) that's in about the same kind of condition as this one, and it's in 7mm. It's damned hard to get any military surplus 7mm ammo nowadays, though, so I've never shot it. I have recently ordered some sporting 7mm ammo, and intend to shoot it as soon at it arrives.

I've also got a German Mauser 98 that was reworked (sporterized) professionally some time back in the Dark Ages (maybe between the world wars) that's a real beauty. It was rebarreled at that time to .30-06. I intend to shoot it and report on it soon.

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I’ve got a case of that in the garage that I bought for $99. I shot a couple more of it. It’s pretty good but not as good as the Yugo stuff you used to be able to get.

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I’ve got a case of that in the garage that I bought for $99. I shot a couple more of it. It’s pretty good but not as good as the Yugo stuff you used to be able to get.

I remember those days fondly.

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Great looking rifle. I had a 1939. It had WWII features.

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The 7x57 available in 1962 when I got the M95 was Win mfr. 175 gr. with a lead round nose. Turned out to be mediocre at best. Over the years, some commercial mfr. in the 150 gr. area have been good - the best of those was some RWS from Germany. In general, 140 gr. Sierra is tops in mine and the ballistic calcs seem to support such.


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This Mauser was made at Oberndorf between 1903 and 1905 for the Turks.
I rebarreled to 260 rem 3.1" Bartlein and shot a deer October 2021......118 years later.


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There's a simple, minimally-invasive modification that I do to some Mausers that I don't want to go the full sporter route on- - - - -ream the chamber to 8MM-06. That was a popular conversion back in the 1950's when the only 8MM ammo available on this side of the pond was Berdan primed and very difficult to reload, and milsurp -06 brass was available by the truckload. The brass was easy to fireform once the chamber was reamed correctly.


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You're welcome. This stuff ought to shoot pretty good.

That's a mighty fine rifle you have there.


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Back to the first pictures in this thread, WOW. That is the cleanest and best looking 98 I've ever seen. I have a DOU 43 that looks like what it is (a well worn WWII rifle that was manhandled by the Soviets)...to think it once looked like TRH's pic is mind boggling.


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Great looking rifle. I had a 1939. It had WWII features.

I've always wanted one like that, i.e., a clean, early Nazi, Mauser K98k, in full military configuration, matching numbers.

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You're welcome. This stuff ought to shoot pretty good.

That's a mighty fine rifle you have there.

Thank you.

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A real "commercial" Mauser, not a military clone, will not have the stripper clip slot in the rear bridge, or the thumb cutout in the left rail. The fit and finish on those rifles is nothing short of spectacular and their collector's value is out of sight.


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