Anyone here seen the new Mauser M18 rifle?

owlowl said:
You really think it is worth $1000?.. I'll show myself out.
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Me too, barrels can't be changed, so a throw away rifle. I would prefer any remmy 700 over this. Mauser should be ashamed of selling this. but hey ho they seem to sell due to great marketing.

edi
 
1,000.00 and you can not change the barrel? Not going to even look or handle one - guess version 2.0 will allow you to change barrels and leave those that bought this one, shaking their fists
 
SuperCub said:
Does Mauser even make something similar to a M98 at a price most can afford?
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I think a "Mauser 98" will run you over 8000$. The way i see it, if Zastava can make a 695$ M98 action rifle then Mauser can make a m98 for a fair price as well. If they ran for 1500$-2000$ then i would buy one but until then im happy with Ruger,winchester, zastava and CZ for mauser type rifles.
 
dgradinaru said:
I think a "Mauser 98" will run you over 8000$. The way i see it, if Zastava can make a 695$ M98 action rifle then Mauser can make a m98 for a fair price as well. If they ran for 1500$-2000$ then i would buy one but until then im happy with Ruger,winchester, zastava and CZ for mauser type rifles.
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I think they are losing a large market share but using that marketing. People will buy a new Ruger #1 for $2k, I'm pretty sure they would buy a new Mauser 98 of decent quality fr the same.

I wouldn't pay $500 for the M18.
 
SuperCub said:
I think they are losing a large market share but using that marketing. People will buy a new Ruger #1 for $2k, I'm pretty sure they would buy a new Mauser 98 of decent quality fr the same.

I wouldn't pay $500 for the M18.
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Your logic is flawless, but you don't really understand the background story.

In 80-90s Mauser was a big manufacturing firm doing mostly big military guns and tooling. Peace broke up in EU, and Mauser went bankrupt, most of the heavy stuff was bought by Rheinmetall, but they didn't care for rifles and didn't buy that division of Mauser. On the other hand was Blaser, which was at the time the rising star hunting rifle manufacturing in Germany saw a potential danger in "Mauser" trademark if someone was to pick it up on sale and do new production Mauser rifles. So Blaser themselves bought the trademark applicable to hunting weapons only and keeps it "parked" so to speak in a subsidiary - Mauser Jagdwaffen GmbH. As such Mauser is a step child of Blaser and it is kept to both not compete with Blaser stuff and not to market Mauser trademark too much at the cost of Blaser market dominance. After some time Blaser in its turn was acquired by SIG Sauer together with Sauer hunting rifles. After that Mauser, Sauer and Blaser should share market and can't compete.

Result of this "healthy EU cartel" we can clearly see in Mauser M18 features and price )
 
Race to the bottom is correct. Just buy a nice unaltered M98/K98 action and build your own rifle. Barrels are readily available, often pre-chambered. Stocks can be bought or made. You will end up with a far nicer rifle IMO.
 
owlowl said:
Your logic is flawless, but you don't really understand the background story.

In 80-90s Mauser was a big manufacturing firm doing mostly big military guns and tooling. Peace broke up in EU, and Mauser went bankrupt, most of the heavy stuff was bought by Rheinmetall, but they didn't care for rifles and didn't buy that division of Mauser. On the other hand was Blaser, which was at the time the rising star hunting rifle manufacturing in Germany saw a potential danger in "Mauser" trademark if someone was to pick it up on sale and do new production Mauser rifles. So Blaser themselves bought the trademark applicable to hunting weapons only and keeps it "parked" so to speak in a subsidiary - Mauser Jagdwaffen GmbH. As such Mauser is a step child of Blaser and it is kept to both not compete with Blaser stuff and not to market Mauser trademark too much at the cost of Blaser market dominance. After some time Blaser in its turn was acquired by SIG Sauer together with Sauer hunting rifles. After that Mauser, Sauer and Blaser should share market and can't compete.

Result of this "healthy EU cartel" we can clearly see in Mauser M18 features and price )
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Mauser used to stand for quality, in the late 80's the automation company I worked for had a robot system that was added to a huge Mauser built automation street to machine Volvo gear boxes. This was built in the old Mauser works in Oberndorf. In that section there was no Military gear been made or at least that I could see.
A few weeks after that I had a meeting with Heckler and Koch which was close to the Mauser company, H&K were also supplying Automation gear to the car industry at that time.
edi

btw, the M18 is only a Sauer 101 in different dress as far as I could see.
 
owlowl said:
Your logic is flawless, but you don't really understand the background story.

In 80-90s Mauser was a big manufacturing firm doing mostly big military guns and tooling. Peace broke up in EU, and Mauser went bankrupt, most of the heavy stuff was bought by Rheinmetall, but they didn't care for rifles and didn't buy that division of Mauser. On the other hand was Blaser, which was at the time the rising star hunting rifle manufacturing in Germany saw a potential danger in "Mauser" trademark if someone was to pick it up on sale and do new production Mauser rifles. So Blaser themselves bought the trademark applicable to hunting weapons only and keeps it "parked" so to speak in a subsidiary - Mauser Jagdwaffen GmbH. As such Mauser is a step child of Blaser and it is kept to both not compete with Blaser stuff and not to market Mauser trademark too much at the cost of Blaser market dominance. After some time Blaser in its turn was acquired by SIG Sauer together with Sauer hunting rifles. After that Mauser, Sauer and Blaser should share market and can't compete.

Result of this "healthy EU cartel" we can clearly see in Mauser M18 features and price )
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Thanks for that. Too bad for that situation but it does make sense from the other end of the marketing scheme.
 
Curious to know with a nawbby that grande, oww hi duzz one need hizz rings?
Dunnoh, for a g-note, I'd go snewp the EE for something with the "new" worn awf it.
 
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