Marstar Yugo Mauser: Headspace check needed?

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If you buy a older miltary rifle, you should get the headspace checked. I know that.

If you buy one of Marstar's Yugo Mausers in new condition, could you assume it is safe to fire? Otherwise, I would have to take it, covered in cosmoline, to the gunsmith and get a headspace check.

I want to know it is safe, before I remove the cosmoline and refinish the wood.

Anyone buy one of these rifles and what did you do?
 
Most milsurps will swallow modern commercial no-go guages, so you already know what the result will be if you take it to your gunsmith.
Headspace isn't rocket science, nor will nominally excessive headspace turn your gun into a bomb.......
Buy your mauser and don't worry about headspace.
 
Headspace isn't rocket science, nor will nominally excessive headspace turn your gun into a bomb.......
Buy your mauser and don't worry about headspace.
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I'd agree. I got a higher desk and my secretary says the headspace is fine... :) atta girl...
 
Something that's probably had thousands of rounds run through it already why would it blow up next shot when you go to use it? :confused:

Where I live there's no gunsmith's and the nearest one in the next town about 90 miles away doesn't even own head space gauge's!!! Unless I buy my own gauge's or try the... see if the primer backs out of the empty case trick, it's not feasible for me to send over a dozen military surplus guns out through the mail to be tested.
 
If it is an unissued rifle, I wouldn't even consider the need to check the headspace. Also, why do you need to refinish the wood on a new rifle straight out of the grease?
 
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It's your personal safety - if you're concerned about headspace issues and if you don't have access to a gunsmith than might I suggest that you spend the $25 at Brownells for a 8mm field gauge.

No disrespect to those who have offered advice so far, I have much respect for those who have offered advice thus far but personally I cringe at the anyone who recommends that a shooter just trust in matching #s and fire away. If you're comfortable with this approach than fine, but if you're not and you have an accident due to someone's "headspace smeadspace" attitude than [trial lawyers enter here]...
 
I agree with the no need to check crowd when dealing with matching number milsurps. I also wear saftey glasses, ear protection and don't eat saturated fat.
I did'nt know that alot of trial lawyers shot milsurps? Guess they appreciate the quality workmanship, historical value, and darn cool factor.
 
david doyle said:
I agree with the no need to check crowd when dealing with matching number milsurps. I also wear saftey glasses, ear protection and don't eat saturated fat.
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So far, I haven't checked headspace on any Mausers I've collected and shot. Perhaps that's more luck than brains, but I've never owned 8mm headspace gauges until recently. Maybe I'll see if the field gauge actually shows anything when I use it. ;)

~Angel~ uses me as a headspace gauge on all of the Enfields she buys. That means that I get to fire the first round down range while she goes for a coffee at the club house. If I'm still there when she gets back, then she takes over the nicely warmed and set-up bench, to continue the hard part of getting groups at 100 yards. :p

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