Surplus M48 from Tenda

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Bulmer69

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Thinking about buying an M48 from one of the online vendors. Several have them and was looking at ordering one from Tenda, as they have free shipping over $300. Any experience with these? What kind of quality have people been getting? Or any other recommendations. Would like to get a Mauser of some kind and this looks like about the least expensive way to get some kind of Mauser variant.

Cheers

Joe
 
I was at Tenda about a month ago but the one on display was well beaten up with the crack on the butt stock. In my opinion not worth the 550 price with tax.
 
Shop around. There are as new M48 and M48BO rifles around. The stocks are rather clunky, but the rifles weren't made to dazzle the latecomers. I have several, varying condition, from as new to well used. For a few years my go to rifle for soul replenishing was a beat up M48 with a dark bore. I cranked lots of that ugly old Yugo ammo out of that one! :)
 
They're well built and rock solid Mausers.
I had an old M48BO.
Very accurate. They were just good, reliable accurate beefy rifles.
Aside from the heart attack inducing cost of 8mm Mauser ammo you can't go wrong. I almost never buy new guns. Deals to be had on the EE for days!
 
I bought one from a different vendor years ago. It instantly became a "never sell" rifle for me. I recommend them to everyone who wants a mauser. They look great, accurate, fun to shoot. Only complaint is the price of ammo, but reloading can help with that. There is also some surplus out there now.

One thing i will suggest is to look at the accessories it comes with. If you are like me, you will buy the cheapest rifle you can find, cleaning rod, sight hood, ammo pouches, stripper clips, etc. And it will cost more than a rifle that comes with some of these things.

I once came across a couple of grenade launcher attachments for the m48. Passed because it was $150 and i was poor. Came back in a couple of weeks and they were gone.
 
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