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I bought this on a whim several years ago and have never messed with it so out it goes. This is a Mauser rifle with absolutely no markings except for a serial number and a tiny import mark near the muzzle. From what I can determine from reading on the internet, these were made for Egypt in 1956 but never issued. That is all I know about it.
It is in as-issued condition, there is not a mark on it that I can find, I cant call it new because it has been sold and handled but it is a close to new as you will find.
$395.00 includes shipping to lower states. C&R OK. Alaska and Hawaii pay actual shipping. No sale to California. Thanks.

Is it in 8mm?

The rifle you have was made for use by "black ops" type folks , on operations where it would be difficult to trace manufacturer.
I believe they are the Yugo model 48 rifle. It may never have been issued.
syzygy12

chambered in 308?

I have no clue what caliber. Only way to be absolutely sure is to do a chamber cast.

Just a suggestion - run the outside jaws of a caliper in the bore. Even measuring to a thousandth a .323 bore should be readily distinguishable from a .308.

Of course, that doesn't eliminate the possibility it could be chambered in .325 WSM...


In relation to nothing particular, a guy had a "sporterized" 8X57 K98 at the range the other day. All original military - stepped barrel and sight, steel buttplate, barrel band etc., except the upper handguard was removed and the lower forend contoured to a more rounded and slender stalking rifle look. Not bad looking and overall a neat rifle.

It is Czech made VZ mauser (look at the front sight and pistol grip) used by Israelis. Likely to be 8mm, the barrel looks original. They re barreled all of them in 308 in 50's.

OK, bore appears to be .323, if that helps.

Yugo M48.

The last Mauser Rifle (not made from parts or a rebuilt) produced by Yugoslavia at the famed Kragujevac arsenal, the Model 1948 98k Short Rifle or otherwise called the Yugoslavian M48. Based in design on the German 98k Mauser and the Yugoslavian Model FN 30 and 24 Carbines and Rifles.

Yugoslavia produced quite a few of these rifles that now have been brought to the surplus market in New to Like New condition. These 8mm rifles are excellent little shooters that are well made and offer a unique opportunity to the shooter and collector to purchase a Like New variant of the very dependable and well made Mauser 98k. The M48 is a little shorter in overall length in the barrel and the overall length of the rifle in comparison to the original German 98k it is modeled after.

Manufactured all of the way into the 50's they became obsolete with the onset of the Semi-Automatic battle rifle. So they were packed up and stored away for the past 50 years.

The Yugoslav M48 Mauser rifle was manufactured from 1950-65 at the Zavodi Crvena Zastava (Red Banner Works. Zastava was known as "Preduzece 44"--meaning Enterprise 44, from 1945-52. In 1952 it was renamed Red
Banner Works.) The M48 series came in four versions--the M48 (all milled parts) M48A (stamped magazine floorplate) M48B (increased use of stamped parts) and the comparatively rare M48BO
(the BO=bez oznake, meaning "without markings.") The M48BO versions were new manufactured M48s as well as numerous captured, reconditioned and "scrubbed" German Kar 98k rifles (sometimes the latter were called M98/48N, the "N" standing for "Njemac," which is Serbo-Croat for "German.") The M48B/M48BO versions were made chiefly for export--and most of these were sent to Egypt, Iran and Algeria. (contributed by Michael E. Kreca

Thanks, very interesting, I appreciate that.

Looks a lot like my Mitchell's M48 8mm mauser.

Bump for a nice rifle. If I was a right hand bolt shooter this one would be mine.