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Those swastikas are what make the value of the gun... They're just marks on metal bud. :)

As for an 8mm mauser, that is a downright light recoil compared to a .338 lapua without a brake. The 8mm Mauser (K98) recoils with 12.9 ft-lbs of energy to your shoulder with standard 170gr ammunition, the .338 Ultra Mag (fractionally less powerful than the .338 lapua) with 43.1 ft-lbs... Roughly 350% of the recoil of the 8mm you're familiar with. Just practice and prepare yourself for it, as compared to standard cartridges, it's a whole different level, while manageable with practice.
 
43.1!!!! SWEET!! hahahaha. They may just be marks on metal but they scare the s*it out of me! Also i think my point was i was used to a mauser with the screw driving in my shoulder, just trying to point out that i dont care lol. I will pratice for it! WOW im now REALLY excited! hahahahaha

Thanks Steve
 
thanks for the read guntech, interesting. I have visitied probabley a 100 buddhist temples and the swastika is very promninent in the architecture and trim painting of most. I have started to think of it more as a stylized ying/yang myself. Most of course in temples have the bottom dogleg orientated as a L.

Any way a roll stamped symbol is just that a symbol it can't change your morals, ethics or political ideology. Touching or shooting the rifle is not going to make you a nazi. If you are truly afraid of it I strongly suggest learnign to trump your fear it will be good practice for the rest of your life when there are real fears to face.
 
Yea thanks for the read Guntech, it provided a lot of useful information. Although it doesnt really stop my fear. I don't understand why but every time i see the rifle my eyes fix on those swastikas and i start thinking about the concentration camp and how the world would be if we had lost the war and how my girlfriend would have been excuted.... if her parents wouldnt have been first. I dunno you get the point, i cant even pick the rifle up without shaking i prolly couldnt hit a target at 50m thats how bad i shake. To this day that rifle, docters and hospitals are the only thing im truly afriad of and to me thats not too bad. lol.

Steve
 
steveyb4342 said:
Yea thanks for the read Guntech, it provided a lot of useful information. Although it doesnt really stop my fear. I don't understand why but every time i see the rifle my eyes fix on those swastikas and i start thinking about the concentration camp and how the world would be if we had lost the war and how my girlfriend would have been excuted.... if her parents wouldnt have been first. I dunno you get the point, i cant even pick the rifle up without shaking i prolly couldnt hit a target at 50m thats how bad i shake. To this day that rifle, docters and hospitals are the only thing im truly afriad of and to me thats not too bad. lol.

Steve
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A bit dramatic, I would think... :runaway: The same effect a gun in general has on anti-gun individuals, remember, it's just metal and wood. :confused: If that physically makes you tremble, there's much greater fears in life you're gonna have to face and lets face it this isn't a good start... :p
 
Nothing to be afraid of, rather, consider yourself fortunate one with the markings intact is in the family and you may even inherit it one day. :) One of mine...

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Yea i know it doesnt really mean anything, the gun itself it is but yes it does make me shake. Like i said though Ive never gotten scared like that before except at the hospital. Ive been shot {.38 hand gun with riot bullets} and that didnt even scare me although the adreneline was making me shake lol. Honestly I dont wanna inherit it, id sell it if i did.

Steve
 
Steve,
Send me the Mauser with the "dirty birds" on it. History won't change because you shoot that old rifle. Rifles are like hammers, simple dumb tools, it's people that can be truely cruel.
 
Casull,I would but Ardent made a good point that makes me feel slightly better about the rifle. In a PM he said that I should see that rifle as a part of our history and that the rifle should be a trophy to me pointing out the fact that we beat them and that the very man who carried my rifle was prolly defeated.

Thanks Steve
 
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