Why was it so famous?

>>30742034
It's just a very solid and well-engineered action. This lead to very widespread adoption (basically the AK-47 of it's time) and today almost all modern production bolt-action rifles are in some way derived from it.

>>30742034

Paul Mauser didn't goof

>>30742058
>tfw your dad's nickname is Mauser

>>30742034
Try one and get back to us.

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mauser appriciation thread?

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>>30742094

This. I've let family who haven't held many guns before be thoroughly impressed with mine.

"Wow. This thing is solid. No wonder it survived WWII, Anon!"

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>>30742120

Mine is a 1940 J.P Sauer & Sohn.

Today they're known as Sig Sauer.

>>30742034
action is very solid and most importantly, cheap and easy to machine. also, >muh nazis

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>going to shoot my K98k tomorrow after not shooting it for almost a year

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>>30742140

the mauser bolt is basically the same bolt in all modern bolt action rifles. mauser perfected it.

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>>30742120
>>30742140
nice specimen

>>30742120
>>30742140
russian captured?

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I've got a 1917/1920 simson and co with a s42/g code Mauser on the way. Anyone interested to see when it gets here?

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>>30742034
Fuck your pic is almost identical to mine I thought you posted my old camera poc

>>30742034
If that's a K98, why does the buttstock look like an M48?

>>30743028
>why does the buttstock look like an M48?
Because the Yugos copied the cupped buttplate and side-mount sling of the Kar.98k for the M48?

>>30743028
Because the m48 copied the k98, especially the later cupped buttplate model ya doofus.

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i liek mooser

>>30742034
Because it was good enough and easy to make.

>>30743161
>good enough
You mean revolutionary and copied by every bolt action rifle
For the next 120 years?

>>30743172
I'm pretty sure he's the guy who is obsessed with the Mas 36. So if it's not French, it's okay.

>>30743172
>Revolutionary
Hardly. It's a solid action, no question. But it didn't change the way we built or used bolt action rifles. Many of the military bolt guns that came after the 98 was designed didn't use it (though several features were borrowed depending on the rifle in question).

>>30743127
Go clean those toilets, Pawel.

>>30743199
It's a better military action and rifle. I just don't get the cult around Mausers.

>>30742966
No thanks I don't give a fuck actually

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>>30743214

:(

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>>30742966
Sweet, another anon with an SA marked Swedish M96.

>>30743095
Laminate stock K98s were mostly made with cupped butt plates as it was though to be more sturdy that way.
I used to have a laminate stock DOU 42 with a simple flat butt plate though. It was on an RC K98 so who knows how late war the stock really was, it couldn't be too late as it still had the channel cut for a cleaning rod.

>>30743221
I just don't get why everyone loves a sleek, strong action that saw proliferation only marched by the ak47 and akm. I've never handled a mas 36 but I imagine it was good enough for the French.

>>30743235
>I came to a Mauser thread to tell people I don't care about mausers

>>30743247
Cupped buttplate was introduced in 1940, one year after the laminated stocks. Your stock was made in 1939. RC Kar.98ks are almost always total mixmasters, just like their refurb M91/30s.

>>30743266
He's like the Enfield fanboys kek.

>>30743253
Strong yes, sleek....eh. Maybe I've just gotten lemons, but the only Mauser action that doesn't feel clunky and gritty is my P14.

>>30743299
You just haven't handled the best. Try getting your hands on pre ww1 contract 98 Mausers. They're god tier smooth.

>>30743299
Gritty? You must've got a poopy Mauser then. Chunky? Yes, but in a good way. I've noticed mosins have a hollow sound when cycling the bolt.

>>30743247
Are the SA ones terribly rare? As in, how many are still in circulation?

>>30742034
The same reason all SerbShit is popular. Oh, and Mauser was the Browning of bolt-actions.

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>>30742376

Thanks!

>>30742952

Lol, technically. I bought it off of a Russian friend of mine who bought it in New York when he first moved over here. You can guess how long ago that was.

He's a Mauser connoisseur and said it wasn't an RC. It has the very rare plum finish on the bolt and none of the waffenamts were ground off. He believes it was captured by someone else but definitely not Russia.

I think it was. It's missing the common RC two locking screws, which were often melted down for steel.

The stock was painted with shellac which I dislike before being put into storage. I so badly wish to remove it but it would bother me more to destroy an old relic.

And finally, one part is mismatched -- the barrel band. It is a 1945 welded barrel band and not one of the spring switch ones found on the early models. All early models until '42 are impeccable. Extremely fine care was taken in their crafting.

And finally, it does have an electro-pencil marking along the bolt, designating the same manufacturing code found all along the rifle's parts. Something many countries did to their captures.

Anyways, it was definitely a capture. Signs point to Russia but it very well could have been a different Soviet satellite as things aren't very consistent with typical Russian Capture.


One thing is certain, it fires like a charm. I've taken game at extremely long ranges with absolute accuracy. It's truly my favorite rifle of my collection.

>>30743585

I said "And finally" twice. Whoops. Shouldn't post after taking a nap.

>>30742034
It's kind of interesting how three of the most famous bolt-action rifles ever made continue on

>Mauser lives on through its great action, which is endless copied
>Enfield and Mosin just live on because people won't stop using them in conflicts

>>30743394
From what I've found 77,000 were sold to Finland, then 8,000 Swedish volunteers armed with Swedish rifles were sent over and after the hostilities, 7,000 of the rifles were left behind. So about 84,000 potentially SA marked Swede Mausers exist.
Who knows how many actually survived.

>>30743692
>tfw my trifecta will be complete when my No4 mk2 shows up friday.

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>>30742155
I picked up a 1942 91/30 and was examining the bore when I got home. Was worried, but now that I'm seeing your old gun and some others online, my bore looks fairly normal.

>>30742034
It lost two World Wars?

>>30743915
1907 had a Mauser action.

>>30743915
>le lost/won war meme
Epic.

>>30743915
>only Germany used the Mauser.
I'd better let all of South America know

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Cats like em

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>>30744677
He looks like a sand cat

>>30743825

Yep, that was a shitty photo with my phone but they look identical. If you want a Mauser that was actually used -- that's about as good as you can get. Only a locked up Mauser is entirely smoothm

>>30744703
She aint, wife pulled her out of a bush on the side of the road, looked like a scab

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>>30742114
Yes.

>>30744734
I know mang.
Sand cats aren't really fit for living among humans.

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The Mauser bolt is nice, but goddamn is it a bitch to disassemble and reassemble

Particularly if you have a Mauser that doesn't have that notch in the stock

>>30743972
They didn't use 98s, which I assume is what this thread is talking about.

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>>30745231
>They didn't use 98s
Literally every single South American country that bought a pre-'98 Mauser model later upgraded to an M98.

>>30744703
a muslim cat?

>>30742359
>the mauser bolt is basically the same bolt in all modern bolt action rifles. mauser perfected it.
The Mauser action isn't the best designed bolt action rifle, by a long shot. The reason why the Mauser action was so prolific was because of DWM's marketing. Same goes for why almost every bolt action on the market copies it.

>>30745282
Well I'll be damned.

>>30745418
which one is then, in your opinion?

>>30745282
>dat Mannlicher stock

Why is it so sexy?

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>>30744677
dubs of truth

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>>30744677
My M1 Carbine brings all the kittens

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>>30745790
>mauser thread

still a nice piece tho anon

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>>30744677
>>30745624
They do indeed.

>>30745581
Was sexier before the Argies fitted it for a bayonet.

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>>30745790
guess ill break the rules too

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>>30743247
Don't have receiver pic on me but another SA marked M96, 1916 owner. In Britain too so there's a few here too.

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>>30742140
JP Sauer would be offended you think they are Sig Sauer. They are still alive and well. Here's my 1943 JP Sauer

What are k98s going for these days? An old coworker has a war production k98 with intact nazi marks, pretty sure it's numbers matching he'd sell me for $500. Should I jump on it?

>>30746315
Get pictures and post them here or on a specialist forum before jumping on it, but for 500 it would be a steal if all correct.

>>30746315
yes. Even non- numbers matching, that ain't bad.

>>30746315
I bought mine for 550 syrupdollars two years ago.
They're 750 now.

I say yes.

>>30746396
Unless it's a Mitchells

>>30742034
The Germans, and their imitators made a gorillion of them, and were distributed across the world as AKs are today.

>>30742114
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=680y_-H-zis&list=PLB2vhKMBjSxNUxpltTT98mcQlIqyVzfjG&index=29

>>30745790
aahhhhhh....sooo cuuuuute.

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My swede has the smoothest bolt of any of my guns its a 1903

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>>30742034
just got k98 as my first rifle off of gunsamerica, pic related, how did I do /k/?

How mentally disturbed am I that I would pay any price for a modern, but faithful reproduction of a k98?

I love everything about my 43 sauer but I would love to have a sexier, newer one (same way that no4mk2's get me hard) with flawless new blueing and bore

>>30746696
You'll love it.
It's my favorite gun up there with my Auto-5 even if I don't get to shoot it a lot.

I really want a k98. What years should I look for, and how much should I expect to pay?

>>30746783
Pretty much any year. I'm not a mauser guy at all but iirc they were cranking them out so fast each one definitely saw action somewhere

anywhere from $400 for a shitstick to $800+ for exceptionally well preserved.

Average is gonna be around $600 for your standard russian capture

>>30746858
you can get a pretty nice yugo capture for 3-400

>>30746783
I saw a ce marked Mauser made in '44 that was pretty neat.
Externally the machining was smooth, but inside you could see tons of tooling marks, you could tell they were getting desperate to field these rifles at the time.

I'd really like to snag a late war K98 that really shows the desperation.

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bcd 4 (1944)

>>30746497
The soviets also captured a good deal of them and sent them all over the world. Same with pretty much all germans guns, that's why you see MP44's popping in Syria and Africa from time to time.

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>>30747519

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1917 Gewehr 98 that I rescued from a fudd who wanted to make it into a durr rifle
Got for $240

>>30747680
That is sex

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My factory chambered 30-06 FN. The bolt handle was turned down and the reciever tapped and ground for scope mounts. The previous owner was a dumbass.

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>>30742075
>tfw your dad's nickname is biggus dickus
I don't know if i'll ever fully understand the helicopter life

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Mine

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>>30748803

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Why was it so famas?

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>>30748556
>Drilling and tapping for a scope mount

Why do people do this?

>>30748846
you're kidding right?

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Only Mauser related item I have

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>>30743315
u no it bub. Mod. 1908 Brazilian

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>>30743239
>cum in your buddy's helmet

>>30745916
I got one of those kinda Tabbies.

>>30742142

>cheap to machine

lol no

At least try to know what you're talking about

>>30746635
Swedes are super nice.

>>30747680
You saved that poor rifles life sir

>>30746085
They were bought by Sig, which was bought by some investor who "refounded" JP Sauer for marketing purposes. The (post war) facility in Eckernförde was taken over by SigSauer, while JP Sauer is located in Isny. So there's more continuity with SigSauer.

>>30742114
I've got the same blanket, at least

>>30751052
Not the brown ones, they've got an explosive temper at times.

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>>30742034
>Why was it so famous?
gee i don't know tennessee, how come?

>>30751132
Was originally gonna get an sks, but knew I couldn't abandon the relic when I saw it