Yes you heard me. This is a Salute to Bubba! Why you may ask. Well there's no denying the facts. Our Fathers and Grandfathers brought back thousands of Mauser's from the battle fields of WWII, and many of these old Gents were hunters and did what any hunter would do with a sharp European 8mm, they needed to lighten up these battle weapons for the hunting field. Matter of fact my first impression of Mauser as a kid was back in the seventies watching my Father get out the old Mauser in the fall and getting it ready for his annual hunting trip to the camp with the boys. I remember how impressive that rifle was, and listened in total interest of Dad telling me the story of how he acquired this old K98. His Father, my Grandfather who passed before I was born actually mailed it home to my Dad from Europe during the war. It came as the story goes in several pieces due to postal size restrictions. It came original i.e. full military configuration but it was what we know as a "Duffle Cut" That is to say the long military length K98 stock had to be basically sawed in two pieces, to make length restrictions and then had to be glued back together using dowels. Dad said he also got quite a few cartridges with it including tracers. He told me how he used to shoot the tracers up into the night sky back in the day. Dad is not sure where Gramps actually picked the rifle up, but his best guess is while the Canadian Army passed through Holland on their way to the Siegfried Line.
A real Vet bring back, actually mailed back, but non the less there it was. So The Mauser was in the family as a War prize and promptly used by my Father while he was a young fella shooting rocks, trees, what ever. Then it was pressed into serious deer and moose hunting service I'd say around the mid to late fifties by Gramps, then by Dad from the Sixties until the early Seventies. Now somewhere in there Dad wanted to get it lightened up for carrying in the woods, I believe early seventies there abouts, this is when the old vet met bubba. To be fair bubba would have been someone that had a pretty good handle on doing what he did, and that was to turn this Mauser into a deer hunter. But the old Mauser was just getting too worn out after serving in WWII and three decades of faithful deer and moose hunting in the Canadian woods of the east coast so she finally had to be retired as it just would not group anymore.
But I just love those memories and the actual rifle, I think its lines are so slick and there is just something about the look of this Mauser that intrigue me to this day. Have a look.
Then I ask you to post pics of your family bubba, which is just such an insulting name for a REAL VET BRING BACK, a Mauser that was actually picked up off of the battle field by a serving member of the Canadian Army during WWII, then put into family service for years to put meat on the table, into the meat pies, and to impress the next generation of gun enthusiasts.
On the pics you will clearly see the old duffle cut in the stock which my GF had to make to mail it back to Canada in 1944-45. Then you will see the fine sporter lines that my Father had the smithy do, noting the wood filled stock holes, to me it looks like a mean rifle.
CAVEAT! THE RIFLE PICTURED ACTUALLY HAS ANOTHER VET BRING BACK BARRELLED ACTION INSTALLED IN ORIGINAL STOCK OF THE STORY AS THE ORIGINAL BARRELLED ACTION THAT WAS MOUNTED IN THIS STOCK WAS ABSORBED INTO MY BROTHERS COLLECTION, I GOT THE STOCK BACK BECAUSE I WANT TO PUT THIS RIFLE BACK INTO HUNTING SERVICE
A real Vet bring back, actually mailed back, but non the less there it was. So The Mauser was in the family as a War prize and promptly used by my Father while he was a young fella shooting rocks, trees, what ever. Then it was pressed into serious deer and moose hunting service I'd say around the mid to late fifties by Gramps, then by Dad from the Sixties until the early Seventies. Now somewhere in there Dad wanted to get it lightened up for carrying in the woods, I believe early seventies there abouts, this is when the old vet met bubba. To be fair bubba would have been someone that had a pretty good handle on doing what he did, and that was to turn this Mauser into a deer hunter. But the old Mauser was just getting too worn out after serving in WWII and three decades of faithful deer and moose hunting in the Canadian woods of the east coast so she finally had to be retired as it just would not group anymore.
But I just love those memories and the actual rifle, I think its lines are so slick and there is just something about the look of this Mauser that intrigue me to this day. Have a look.
Then I ask you to post pics of your family bubba, which is just such an insulting name for a REAL VET BRING BACK, a Mauser that was actually picked up off of the battle field by a serving member of the Canadian Army during WWII, then put into family service for years to put meat on the table, into the meat pies, and to impress the next generation of gun enthusiasts.
On the pics you will clearly see the old duffle cut in the stock which my GF had to make to mail it back to Canada in 1944-45. Then you will see the fine sporter lines that my Father had the smithy do, noting the wood filled stock holes, to me it looks like a mean rifle.
CAVEAT! THE RIFLE PICTURED ACTUALLY HAS ANOTHER VET BRING BACK BARRELLED ACTION INSTALLED IN ORIGINAL STOCK OF THE STORY AS THE ORIGINAL BARRELLED ACTION THAT WAS MOUNTED IN THIS STOCK WAS ABSORBED INTO MY BROTHERS COLLECTION, I GOT THE STOCK BACK BECAUSE I WANT TO PUT THIS RIFLE BACK INTO HUNTING SERVICE
