Chinese Mausers

[russian_babushka]

Anyone got any Chinese Mausers, rifle K98 and 1888 and the C98 Mauser pistol? How much do they generally go for in Canada?

 

[JesperA]

Unlike that poor fellow at Burke Mtn. Wear your safety glasses!

 

[Calum]

What was the final prognosis on what caused that thing to blow up in his face?

 

[JesperA]

I believe it was one of the mods that gave first aid for the fellow. I think the advice was always wear safety glasses and don't put hot ammo through an old milsurp

 

[agit-prop]

I believe it was one of the mods that gave first aid for the fellow. I think the advice was always wear safety glasses and don't put hot ammo through an old milsurp

And check/replace the bolt stop in any "new to you" C96 before firing...

 

[Canuck I Am]

And for Christ's sake, don't use 7.62 Tok ammo if you've got the 7.63 Mauser version.

 

[ollie]

Back to the original topic...I would like to have a Chinese mauser too...are most of 'em in the states?

and...who blew up what in the wherenow?

 

[Claven2]

The last import of Chinese Mausers was by Century - maybe in the early 90's? Some were definitely in Canada. They were DIRT cheap with shot-out bores and I remember at least one gunsmith was buying them to blow up while testing wildcat loads!

Haven;t seen one in a while, but if you find one - expect ti to wear it's history in spades and have the "poor condition" monkier to prove it.

 

[tiriaq]

Agreed. The Chinese mauser rifles which I've seen were really used. So were the pistols. They are interesting firearms, and there are odd variants, but they are of interest primarily as curios.

 

[david doyle]

yep a short course in chinese history will show that any rifle in china had lots of opportunity for hard use! If it was'nt the nationalist fighting the commies it was the commies fighting the japs or the the nationalists fighting the japs or the nationalists and the commies fighting the japs or the japs and the nationallists fighting the commies......... and then there were the friendly neighbour wars.
Saw a military display at a chinese museum and they had in service just about rifle known to man in the 20s, 30s and 40s.