Spanish FR8 available in Canada?
- Thread starter ton45-II
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- Right behind you...
Last I bothered to look there was one with the rear sights hacked off for $500 on the EE.
Nice ones tend to flip fairly quickly so log in often.
I have one. It is a very good plinking rifle. teh rear sight rotates to four different elevations, something like the C1A1 sight.
The front post screws in and out, to zero the sights for elevation. because the rear sight is welded in place, wind zero is done at the front. the front post is off-centre from the threaded shaft, so it moves left-right as it rotates. In this way you make a final wind zero as you set your elevation. A neat, solid system.
Rifles would be worth more if there was cheap ammo to feed them.
The front post screws in and out, to zero the sights for elevation. because the rear sight is welded in place, wind zero is done at the front. the front post is off-centre from the threaded shaft, so it moves left-right as it rotates. In this way you make a final wind zero as you set your elevation. A neat, solid system.
Rifles would be worth more if there was cheap ammo to feed them.
Yup, what a shame
Take a $350 rifle, turn it into a $150 rifle and ask $500 for it
Fully agreed....
...these rifles would also be pretty-close to the ultimate "truck-guns", if they hadn't been bid-up to rarified status so recently........Same thing happened with Ishapore 7.62mm's, IMHO.....
Remember when fun milsurps were, well, affordable and able to be "roughly-treated" without much guilt?.....
I see the 1 on EE....... Unforgivable!!!!!!! 500$ for it, no way.... I have sold a FR-7 fews months ago on the EE for 400$ and was in excellent condition.
- Location
- Pile of Bones, SK
Shudder @ bubba'd FR8.
The nice ones are all being horded.
The nice ones are all being horded.
Shudder @ bubba'd FR8.
The nice ones are all being horded.
FR-8's can't be nearly as rare as their current prices suggest, can they?.....
They are. I had a minty mint one that was beautiful and nearly new though.
Sold for more than that with plenty of interest and offers.
Mind you it was immaculate and had seen 0 rounds when I bought it and I had put extremely few rounds through it in its lifetime...measured in a few dozen at most.
Seen a few others, nothing as nice, so I would say the premium was warranted if you wanted one with that condition, which is the only way it would have left my hands anyways.
The new owner is lurking here btw
Sold for more than that with plenty of interest and offers.
Mind you it was immaculate and had seen 0 rounds when I bought it and I had put extremely few rounds through it in its lifetime...measured in a few dozen at most.
Seen a few others, nothing as nice, so I would say the premium was warranted if you wanted one with that condition, which is the only way it would have left my hands anyways.
The new owner is lurking here btw
- Location
- Pile of Bones, SK
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from the small sample that i have compared, the FR7's tend to have smother actions and nicer wood. of course i am sure that there are butter smooth FR8's with really nice wood, but i haven't seen them.
to me action strength isn't relevant, at the range that there are useful nothing (not deer nor paper) can tell the difference between 300 savage and 7.62x51 ballistics. oh yeah, i reload using 300 savage data.
- Location
- Pile of Bones, SK
SIR mail order in Winnipeg was selling them in the early 90s. I got one and used it as my backup gun when guiding bear hunters. I carried it for many years in Northern Manitoba. That rifle loved the old Federal Classic 180 grain HI Shock load and I took quite a few bears and one moose with it. I also shot my first white tail with it when I moved out of the north. The FR 8 is a standard Mauser 98 action and since mine was made at La Coruna in 1949 I considered it to be as strong as any other Mauser action. Never gave me any trouble.
