Mauser 8mm

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A LGS has a 8mm Mauser with lotsa matching numbers for $325. They recently lowered the price so it will move. I don't know anything about 'em, I didn't write down the numbers, and now I've forgotten... M24/M47 mebbe?? I've seen correct Mosin Nagants with a $400 price tag, and I know a Mauser is a better rifle... but all those prices are dropping fast.

What should I be lookin' for to figure out if'n I should buy, or pass? :confused:
 
Even if it is a Yugo that is still a solid price. The giveaways are if they have a crest for Yugo and Czech usually. Also the gterman models will have a 3 letter prefix that correlates to the production site.

If it happens to be German then look for a plain small x on the receiver...that would indicate a Russian capture.

At this point even the yugo models are fetching 300 or so without trying online.
 
Is the crest stamped on top of the receiver, right at the breech?

IIRC, it looks like this'n... so it's likely a Yugo.

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I'll get pics on Friday.
 
Having come up in a time when mosins were mostly viet nam bring backs and worthless and mausers were available as shooters under a $100, complete actions for $25.....Im generally left speechless as to the prices that are being had for even junk mausers like the turks.

But, I spose its because they are all used up. I shouldn't complain though the MAK90 I bought new for $69 in the 90s and only fired twice is now worth eleventy4 times that much and the new Springfield Armory Garand I bought for $400 in 92 is now probably worth a bit over double that.

Shame though, one of the few avenues left to build a custom bolt action kinda cheep these days is to use a mosin which no matter what you do will be primitive, ugly and clunky, just like it was when it started.

Its a new era I suppose,, one with a dearth of top quality and inexpensive platforms to launch custom work from or even cut yer teeth on.
 
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So what does make this one worth so much? Just the year of manufacture?
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It is in original configuration for the period in which it was made. Exceedingly rare as it sits. Nearly all of them were upgraded to later configuration.
 
Cubrock nailed it. It has a lot of early features... early rear sight, no sling slots in the stock, magazine and forward band sling swivels.... If it had been all original matching, it would have gone for another $1K more.
 
I have a 24/47 Yugo that I bought several years ago.. all matching, everything. But for some reason it would never grab the rim of the 8mm and go fully into breach.

Didn't have time to mess with it, so I just put it in the corner closet and it has been sitting ever since... Don't know much about the Mauser bolt, but I figure one day I would get it working. Just never thought about it till now...
 
When my dad passed away, I got his guns. One was a fully dressed 8mm German Mauser. Brought back from the war by my Uncle.
I also have a 30.06 Mauser that I bought for my son when he was a kid. Was in pretty bad shape on the outside. I bought it and another 8mm at the same time, at a gun show. Got them both for $60. I cut them down and sporterized them, wish I hadn't, but both are good shooting riffles. I got the 30.06 back from my oldest, when he was about to sell it at a pawn shop. SMH, Thinking about getting a synthetic stock for it, just for appearance sake.
 
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