Scope mounting a Mauser

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Thinking of scope mounting a isreali
Mauser ! Will require drilling for zrak
mounts!

Big de vaulueing or no?

To me I say no, already devauled with
isreali 308 barrel, and ground off eagle
, should make a nice mod to it with a scope?

Looking for comments
 
They are not making them anymore and an Israeli Mauser is a bonifide collector's piece on its on. So any modification will destroy its collector's value.
 
Im also thinking value of the Mauser will
increase when I add a scope and repo sling
and if it shoots really well, could be
a nice sniper at half the cost of a original!
 
As soon as you modify it in any way that is nonreturnable to stock condition will reduce it's value. get an S&k scout mount with weaver bases for 69$, basically just tap out the sight pin, put on the new mount, 100% returnable to stock config

http://ww w.scopemounts.com/index.html?instaprice.html
 
:eek:Aaahhh!!!

Restore it instead;)
Heres two of mine, they are beautiful, very accurate examples of Israelis. These rifles were used by the IDF in the 1956 war, the 6 day war, Yom Kippur war and they are getting harder to find. D&T that and it becomes worthless.
If you want a scoped mauser action rifle - CZ550

Top: G24(t) receiver Israeli. Bottom: FN contract IDF Israeli.
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joepup said:
Im also thinking value of the Mauser will
increase when I add a scope and repo sling
and if it shoots really well, could be
a nice sniper at half the cost of a original!
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If you're actually serious, buy the right repro mounts for the gun.

Zrack mounts are for yugo guns. My M24/47 already had a turned down bolt (matching) and so was a candidate for zrack mounts. An israeli or german mauser should have german mounts on it.


If you really want to ADD value to a gun, get a mauser that has had the wood cut down on it for a steal, then refurb and scope it - your cost to value will go through the roof instead of the floor.
 
I think drilling and tapping a rifle (especially a collector piece milsurp) that has not already been drilled and tapped is like driving a $100k sports car off the purchase lot; you just lost a large amount of value that you can never get back.

Find a Kar98k that has already been abused and turned into a sporter and play around with that, it will save you some money and you won't feel as bad in the end.
 
I think a lot depends on what you are trying to do.

I know what the purists are saying, that you destroy the original specimen, but, just one little thing: guns are made to shoot. I think that if you can scope the critter without permanently destroying the original markings, that is, doing it in such a way that it CAN be put back to original, you're not destroying the rifle.
There is this neat little invention called a "plug screw", you know. And there are very small files and there is Birchwood Casey paste blue.....

Perhaps not original.... but how ELSE are you going to really understand the potential of the equipment you are collecting. A friend has one of those Norwegian .30-'06 Mark 98k rifles. Very pretty. Trouble was that no matter what he amed at, he hit. So he had a very small bit removed from the wood, got another bolt and had it bent.... and he scoped the critter. We now know just HOW accurate those rifles could actually be.
And how accurate can one be?
One third of a minute, any range.
You CANNOT do that kind of testing with iron sights.
And he has plug-screws, too.
 
Thinking on purity for a bit, I was reminded of a nasty old rifle I saw in the Imperial War Museum. It was a really good, early World War One SMLE that had been thoroughly Bubba'd. There was Turkish engraving all over it announcing that it was an official Turkish war souvenir, taken from the British at Kut-el-Amara and then there was more engraving announcing that it was a friendship gift from the Sultan of Turkey to his good and faithful ally the Emir of Mecca. And there was a whole bunch of completely non-original gold inlay on the thing, too. The Emir gave the rifle to his son, the Sherif, who gave it to his friend Aurens.... who gave it to his friend George Widsor.

If somebody were to get in there and remove the thing, it COULD be restored, you know: just pry out all that damned gold inlay, weld up all the engraving with a MIG welder, bed the thing with Acra-Glas and do the stock up with a nice rubbed-oil finish. You'd have a real nice $350 rifle.

Of course, it would no longer be QUITE original....
 
yes , I do have to agree, here is my dilemma, I want to shoot it and I also want to retain value down the road.

I do not want a scout scope mount, so that limits me to modifying the receiver to except a scope mount being repo German mounts or yugo zrak, which I happen to have a set of, adding this mount does not make the gun in question historical accurate, but I can really get a feel of how good it shoots with a scope.

This K98 has some of the German markings taken off with a grinder, which to me lowers the value of it, but now the value of it comes back up because it was a Israeli IDF issue and re barreled 7.62x51 and now has a swastika and a Jewish star beside each other, kind of Ironic to see something like that, as the grinder did miss the swastika and got the Bird!

does have matching reciever and bolt.
nice stock.

Now if only I could find an Israeli sniper scope with mounts. If not most likely the Zrak is going on her!
 
If I absolutely had to have a scope on one of my rifles then I would get Clawmounts.
These are double square bridge claw mounts, they are solder on not DT, they wont ruin the rifle and they look the part.
Another option is German turret mounts but they are DT.

An original Israeli scope and mounts will be very hard to find indeed.

I agree with Wally that the Zrak mounts will look way out of place on that rifle.
You could sell them and put the money towards more compatible mounts.

I will again advise against scoping it and I can tell you that very few Israelis have matching bolts on them, but hey, it is your rifle.

Fortunately for me I still have 20/20 vision and can hit targets at 300m all day long using the irons on my Mausers.

Here is the link: http://www.clawmounts.com/

For German turrets: http://www.accumounts.com/
 
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Thinking on SMLE scope mounts for a minute, S&K has one for the old Mark III* that attaches to the charger guide and to a ring that goes around the barrel, right at the front of the receiver. To instal the thing requires only taking out a thin strip of wood from the forestock; this can be filled with plastic wood and dtained to match, but it is thin enough that it isn't really very noticeable.

Why not build something like this for your Mauser? It DOES have a charger guide and t certainly has a stock and barrel. It IS possible.

NOT original, mind you, but it would be possible and it would solve the problem to everyone's satisfaction. Know anybody who works in a welding shop? Handy with tools?
 
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