Hi,
I'm wondering if I can get some advice about what to do with my M48 Mauser. I bought this one off of Marstar and what I liked about it was that for the money I was getting a new unissued Mauser with the reliability and accuracy of the original to back it up (or so I thought). I intended to use it as a deer gun when I get into hunting, I'm still young and my eye sight is pretty good so I just wanted to use the iron sights on it. But ever since I’ve taken it to the shooting range I have run into a giant stumbling block with this gun, I can't hit s**t with it.
I know the first increment on the ladder is 200m on the Mauser and I have it set to that but the bullets just wiz above any target that I shoot at. On the 80 and 100 meter ranges I am forced to aim into the ground ahead of the board to get the bullets to shoot center. I wasted $100 on a scout scope and mount for the Mauser hoping this would correct it but I didn’t like what I got off ebay for my money. The mount kept shaking itself loose even with loctite and the scope had too narrow a field of view. The magnification was too weak even though it was a variable power I could barely see the target on the highest power.
What’s frustrating is that I have shot K98s and they didn’t seem to have this problem, at least not as exaggerated as it is with my M48. I have spent a lot of boxes of ammo just trying to feel this gun out and I don't feel comfortable with rifle that I can shoot accurately. As it is right now this gun is useless to me.
Has anybody fixed these accuracy issues on their Mausers before? and was it this far out of whack (+/- 15") I am considering putting a taller front sight blade on the Mauser but I'm not sure it will help with it shooting this far off, (right now I'm basically using the top of the sight hood as the sight). My final option is just to pay a gunsmith to drill and tap this gun for a scope mount and bend the bolt, in which case I might as well just have bought a new hunting rifle it would have cost the same.
I'm wondering if I can get some advice about what to do with my M48 Mauser. I bought this one off of Marstar and what I liked about it was that for the money I was getting a new unissued Mauser with the reliability and accuracy of the original to back it up (or so I thought). I intended to use it as a deer gun when I get into hunting, I'm still young and my eye sight is pretty good so I just wanted to use the iron sights on it. But ever since I’ve taken it to the shooting range I have run into a giant stumbling block with this gun, I can't hit s**t with it.
I know the first increment on the ladder is 200m on the Mauser and I have it set to that but the bullets just wiz above any target that I shoot at. On the 80 and 100 meter ranges I am forced to aim into the ground ahead of the board to get the bullets to shoot center. I wasted $100 on a scout scope and mount for the Mauser hoping this would correct it but I didn’t like what I got off ebay for my money. The mount kept shaking itself loose even with loctite and the scope had too narrow a field of view. The magnification was too weak even though it was a variable power I could barely see the target on the highest power.
What’s frustrating is that I have shot K98s and they didn’t seem to have this problem, at least not as exaggerated as it is with my M48. I have spent a lot of boxes of ammo just trying to feel this gun out and I don't feel comfortable with rifle that I can shoot accurately. As it is right now this gun is useless to me.
Has anybody fixed these accuracy issues on their Mausers before? and was it this far out of whack (+/- 15") I am considering putting a taller front sight blade on the Mauser but I'm not sure it will help with it shooting this far off, (right now I'm basically using the top of the sight hood as the sight). My final option is just to pay a gunsmith to drill and tap this gun for a scope mount and bend the bolt, in which case I might as well just have bought a new hunting rifle it would have cost the same.