bubblehead
12-31-2005, 05:55 AM
I've been wanting a 98 Mauser for a long time and when Christmas rolled around, the wife told me to go pick one out.
We drove down to Orange Co. (CA) where the bigger gun shops are to shop around. The first one didn't have anything and all the second shop had were Yugo M48's. I did find one that was just gorgeous so I thought what the hey, I'll just settle on it, paid for it and went home. I thought about it for a few days and got to thinking that the price was too high and it wasn't really what I wanted.
Last week I decided to cancel the Yugo and look some more and went to a local shop in Riverside (CA). They had some Milsurp rifles including several Sweeds, but what caught my eye was a fine looking SMLE Mk 1. The salesman told me that it had been rebarreled in .22 RF after WWI and again to .303 at the start of WWII. The sweeds were nice too, so now I had 3 choices to take the place of my elusive 98k.
I was just about convinced to take that Enfield, but thought I try one more local shop in Yucaipa, CA. I walked in and immediately saw a beautiful 96 and was drawn to it like a magnet. I looked it over real good and put back on the rack, then noticed a 98k!! It was a DOU 43 with all the proper Waffenampts and all numbers matched except the cleaning rod. It's probably an RC, but not defaced like most.
Anyway, that's my new toy. Later, my wife told me that when I started looking, she was willing to LET me spend up to $1k.
Ah well. I'm happy. I have a new cartridge to load. Now, decisions on molds, dies, etc.
Thanks for listening.
Ron
We drove down to Orange Co. (CA) where the bigger gun shops are to shop around. The first one didn't have anything and all the second shop had were Yugo M48's. I did find one that was just gorgeous so I thought what the hey, I'll just settle on it, paid for it and went home. I thought about it for a few days and got to thinking that the price was too high and it wasn't really what I wanted.
Last week I decided to cancel the Yugo and look some more and went to a local shop in Riverside (CA). They had some Milsurp rifles including several Sweeds, but what caught my eye was a fine looking SMLE Mk 1. The salesman told me that it had been rebarreled in .22 RF after WWI and again to .303 at the start of WWII. The sweeds were nice too, so now I had 3 choices to take the place of my elusive 98k.
I was just about convinced to take that Enfield, but thought I try one more local shop in Yucaipa, CA. I walked in and immediately saw a beautiful 96 and was drawn to it like a magnet. I looked it over real good and put back on the rack, then noticed a 98k!! It was a DOU 43 with all the proper Waffenampts and all numbers matched except the cleaning rod. It's probably an RC, but not defaced like most.
Anyway, that's my new toy. Later, my wife told me that when I started looking, she was willing to LET me spend up to $1k.
Ah well. I'm happy. I have a new cartridge to load. Now, decisions on molds, dies, etc.
Thanks for listening.
Ron