Ah, the good old days: Mausers 1 and 2

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[9.3X62AL]

Yer killin' me, Rick........

All the goodies arrived today on the BBT to do 7mm Rem Mag for my partner at work. The mission involves turning this belted magnum monster into a more docile creature, more like the 7 x 57 in ballistics and accuracy. The 6.5 x 55's and 7 x 57's in that ad copy make me wistful.

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My brother-in-law and I each bought 1909 Argentine Mausers in late 60's off a guy selling out of his house. They all appeared unissued and new. The price was $40 each. I wished I'd have bought all he had. If I knew then what I know now I would have bought as many as I could afford. My brother-in-law has only fired his once as far as I know. I have never seen better finished 98's anytime anywhere. Mine was turned into a heavy bbl .308 yrs ago when I was young and stupid, Now I'm only old and dumb.

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[C1PNR]

My brother-in-law and I each bought 1909 Argentine Mausers in late 60's off a guy selling out of his house. They all appeared unissued and new. The price was $40 each. I wished I'd have bought all he had. If I knew then what I know now I would have bought as many as I could afford. My brother-in-law has only fired his once as far as I know. I have never seen better finished 98's anytime anywhere. Mine was turned into a heavy bbl .308 yrs ago when I was young and stupid, Now I'm only old and dumb.

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Got any K-31 Swiss yet? AIM says $80, or $90 Hand Pick. I paid too much for mine, but hope the value increases to even get close to the accuracy value.;-)

[sc03a3]

the 60's were great days for buying milsurp weapons. 1891 argy mausers[like new] for 19.95, 03a3 springfields for 39.95, mint winchester model 1917 enfield for 26.95, 1917 colt and s&w revolvers for 25.00, 6.5 japs for 5.00, and the very best buy, a winchester m1 garand for 95.00. 98 mausers for 15 to 25.00. trouble was 25.00 was a lot of money in those days, heck the payment on a new chevy impalia was 100.00 a month.....dick

[StarMetal]

Yeah, the 60's were great. I miss my 65 Impala Super Sport convertible with the 400 horse 409 with four speed and posi-traction. Also my 65 Chevelle SS with hi-po 327 with fourspeed.

Joe

[sc03a3]

that 65 impala with a factory 409 and rag-top is a rare bird, don't you wish you still had it? i had a 62 biscane 2 door post with a 365 hp 409 and 4 speed in those days, and sure wished i still had it.....dick

[wills]

Back in about ‘85 the Woolworth store in downtown Houston had reconditioned Garands for $125, carbines for about $90. For a couple of days during lunch hour you would see people walking around all over downtown with Garands and carbines. One of the newspaper columnists did a column on going into Woolworths and trying to remember how to field strip a Garand. I think he finally did get it put back together.

[KCSO]

Yeah, the good old days...

I was working as a rookie cop and worked 6 days a week 10 hours a day for 425.00 a month and had to support a family. I can remember saving for 3 months to have $20.00 to spare to buy a 30-40 Krag.
I was working for O.P. Skaggs Co as a grocery sacker for .85 an hour when I bought my first Mauser and I thought that the $18.00 I spent at the GEM store was a fortune. Now my family is grown and gone, I own my house and if I find a milsurp for $100.oo I think it is a steal and grab on to it. I use to spend hours talking to my grandfather about the Good Old Days of the 1920's when a Ford was $500 and $25.00 would buy you a brand new Winchester and he didn't have the money either!
I'll Bet when guns are $1000 each our kids will be talking about NOW as the Good Old Days: but I sure would like to go back to 1960 with a wallet full of cash!!!!

[azrednek]

Yeah, the 60's were great. I miss my 65 Impala Super Sport convertible with the 400 horse 409

Joe

I know I'm jumping off topic, but I knew somebody that had one just like only it had the sick, 2 speed powerglide tranny. It was stolen from him twice, both times it was found without an engine. At his insurance co's request the Chevy dealer removed the 409 insignia and replaced it with the insignia for a 283.

[StarMetal]

Azredneck

Funny you mentioned that insignia because when I got the car the 409 part of the insignia was gone, but the crossed checkered flags were still there. I told everyone I raced that it was a 283 har har har. From GM it had an aluminum highrise intake stamped GM on one end and Wieand on the other. It had what was called back then a Daytona Special Carter AFB fourbarrel carb, it had 1/2 inch chromed fuel line going to the carb with 3/8 chromed return line (never seen a return line on a chevy before that) right at the carb was the old fachion glass bowl filter, with chromed top. The valvepan covers were chromed. When I finally blew the engine up I took the cam numbers to the Chevy dealers and the book said it was "an exprimental L88 cam" for solid lifters and had a .520 lift both intake and exhaust. I know I sold the heads and cam to a kid that was going to put them on a 348 (the 348 is what the bored out to get a 409) but his stock castiron 4 barrel intake wasn't big enough to cover the intake ports on my heads!! Then years later I thought about that. Chevy used the 409 for racing. They had a special engine called the Z1 or ZR1, something like that. It was a special 409 with what they called tall port head and other exotic goodies. I'm beginning to think by 1965 Chevy was running low on parts to assemble 409's and those might heads and manifold to fit them might have been all that was laying around. Chevy High Performance magazine did an article onthe 65 409 and said Chevy detuned it to one four barrel at 340 horses. Well, I had a Motors Repain Manual and it listed my engine code as 400 hp with either 11 to 1 or 12 to 1 compression ratio. When I was looking at the pistons in it they had a big as possible dome on them without hitting the heads. All I can said is that baby ran and it guzzled premium gas to the tune of 12 mpg if you drove it sensibly, but if you got your foot into it you could watch the gas gauge go down. It had 3 inch exhaust on it with regular mufflers, but at idle it sounded like a 427 with open headers down inside a well and the front fenders would bounce up and down with lope that was in the cam. All in all it was a great engine and car for young chevy motor head growing up in the muscle car era.

I still have one of the pistons out of it for memories

Joe

[carpetman]

One police dept had "CALL 911" insignia. They had to remove it as folks thought it was a 9-11 Porsche and were stealing the cars.

[carpetman]

Starmetal--Joe---you had never seen a return fuel line on a Chevy. Those things were so whimmpy that unlike other economy cars that just got good gas mileage,they produced gas and needed a return line to put it in the tank. Sure wouldn't see such on a real car like a Ford.

[Scrounger]

One police dept had "CALL 911" insignia. They had to remove it as folks thought it was a 9-11 Porsche and were stealing the cars.

Had to be in Texas. Did they all have sheep in the back seat?