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- Medicine Hat, AB
You may want to look at some of the guns Trade Ex has.
Can I hunt with a vintage German Mauser k98
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rnbra-shooter
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- New Brunswick
The extractor.
The front face of the extractor claw is pretty flat, and the whole extractor is pretty stiff. It will butt up against the case head of a cartridge in the chamber, rather than snapping over it. locking it. This prevents you from getting the bolt far enough forward to close it. Don't try forcing it closed either, you might break it. Same thing also usually happens if you just set a round on top of the magazine and try to chamber it - the round goes in the chamber, but you can't get the bolt closed.
When fed from the magazine, the cartridge slides up and into place, under the extractor, as the round is chambered.
I had a chzek brno 8mm I paid 20 bucks for from a friend of a friend. I had visions of stalking through the moose woods with a nice sporterized open sighted mauser. I wanted a new hunting gun but did'nt have the heart to chop up the 8mm or the previously mentioned 6.5. The 6.5 was mint, the 8mm had seen better days. I ended trading them to someone who I know will take care of them. [I wish I had kept them anyway].European 8mm loads a very close to 30-06. North american loads a pretty weak but still effective on moose sized game at reasonable range.
If you bought a nice 98 Mauser and then drilled it for scopes you would really be cutting it's resale value by ruining a collectible.
If you really want to hunt with a Mauser you could buy one already drilled with scope mounts. It would cost less than a perfect copy anyway. But if you bought it that way it would more than likely already be sporterized which you ma not want. You could buy a nice original M98 and get a S&K Scout Mount for it and mount a long eye relief scope for it. This is a no-gunsmith rear sight replacement that does not modify your gun permanently.
Also the 8mm is a fine round, but from what I've read, you may have to load it yourself to get it to it's full potential. Factory ammo may be a little tougher to find or more expensive than other more common rounds, but if you really want to hunt with an 8mm, those things shouldn't stop you.
If you really want to hunt with a Mauser you could buy one already drilled with scope mounts. It would cost less than a perfect copy anyway. But if you bought it that way it would more than likely already be sporterized which you ma not want. You could buy a nice original M98 and get a S&K Scout Mount for it and mount a long eye relief scope for it. This is a no-gunsmith rear sight replacement that does not modify your gun permanently.
Also the 8mm is a fine round, but from what I've read, you may have to load it yourself to get it to it's full potential. Factory ammo may be a little tougher to find or more expensive than other more common rounds, but if you really want to hunt with an 8mm, those things shouldn't stop you.
Good point, forgot about them.
Good old Marstar!http://www.marstar.ca/ac-ATI/ATI-bolt-action.shtm
S&K also make a no-gunsmith receiver mount, I think it's called an Insta-Mount.
I hunted with mine for years as I really couldn't afford better guns at the time. Now that I have a cabinet full of good sporting guns...I am thinking of going back to the iron sighted Mauser.
There are wankers that want to make this sport more complicated than it has to be with their big $$$ MOA bolt guns with custom stocks and all that hogwash - and it does come in handy when shots get long and trophies and bragging rights are involved...but such men, their rifles and their talk bore me.
I like the old guns with soul and character. I only hunt for meat and fun and the Mauser will do that and more all day long. On the range, for all out fun on the gong shoots nothing beats the old mausers and enfields and other war horses.
Take your mauser into the field and have fun - you are not as undergunned as these self described experts might tell you. It's all between you and the deer.
There are wankers that want to make this sport more complicated than it has to be with their big $$$ MOA bolt guns with custom stocks and all that hogwash - and it does come in handy when shots get long and trophies and bragging rights are involved...but such men, their rifles and their talk bore me.
I like the old guns with soul and character. I only hunt for meat and fun and the Mauser will do that and more all day long. On the range, for all out fun on the gong shoots nothing beats the old mausers and enfields and other war horses.
Take your mauser into the field and have fun - you are not as undergunned as these self described experts might tell you. It's all between you and the deer.
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- marmora ontario
Why not!!!! Jitc
No one has mentioned the major weakness of any iron sighted rifle and that is low light conditions. Most game is taken in the first and last hours of daylight when it is a heavy twilight and iron sights suck under those conditions.
Hunt with your K98? Absolutely. It is more than adequate for deer and moose. But be aware that iron sights mean you may well have to pass on shots under poor lighting conditions and that those happen quite regularly. If you can live with that, then go for it. That old K98 is a great rifle with lots of character and history behind it.
I plan to hunt deer this fall with my Garand, but I will have my scoped BSA in 6.5x55 for the low light hours and then the Garand will be pulled out through the day when the light is good.
Mark
Hunt with your K98? Absolutely. It is more than adequate for deer and moose. But be aware that iron sights mean you may well have to pass on shots under poor lighting conditions and that those happen quite regularly. If you can live with that, then go for it. That old K98 is a great rifle with lots of character and history behind it.
I plan to hunt deer this fall with my Garand, but I will have my scoped BSA in 6.5x55 for the low light hours and then the Garand will be pulled out through the day when the light is good.
Mark
What right do you have to say my opinion is worth belittling because I value history over an easier sight picture?
The Mauser action is a control round feed system, it needs to pick up the cartridge from the magazine.
Forcing it to be a push feed can and will damage the extractor.
Also of note if using the original sites one will have to try out different hunting loads to get the point of impact as close as possible to what the original military load was that the sights were factory zeroed to. Not impossible, but just takes a little range time and it helps if one reloads their own ammo.
Pathfinder
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- Northeast Ontario
My father has a reworked k-98 in a monte carlo stock, we converted it to a det-mag and I developped some 175 gr. Sierra loads for it. It will do anything a 30-06 can do.
The factory ammuntion is about equivalent to a starting load....they were not taking any chances....which I think is because of the old .318 bore in older mausers.
The factory ammuntion is about equivalent to a starting load....they were not taking any chances....which I think is because of the old .318 bore in older mausers.
Seriously, if you want a mauser for deer hunting, (chances are you'll get a shooter, not a collector) and would prefer a scope and don't plan on selling it, go ahead and get it drilled and tapped. My Lee Enfield Nr 1 Mk III would probably look better with the original configuration, but hell, it kills deer just fine.
Excellent point! I also heard you can shoot 1/2 MOA with a monocle. My grandfather told me that and he served in Europe during WWII so he should know!
