Zastava M98 Rifles?

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Hi,

I was browsing Tradex website and noticed they have
Zastava Commercial M98 rifles in stock, for what it seems like a fair price.
http://www.tradeexcanada.com/content/zastava-commercial-m98-270-win-7

I spent quite a long time trying to find more info about these rifles.
Unfortunately I couldn't find any reviews of it.
(Wife says my search skills suck)
All I could find is one guy trying to sight one in, in 7mm rem mag.

So my question is, does anyone own/owned one?
Whats the quality, and how's the accuracy?
And of course, "would you recommend this item to a friend?":cheers:

Thank you
 
I have a couple of them and find little wrong with them. A bit rough internally[action], nothing that 10 minutes with 400 grit paper can't fix.
Triggers are creepy but adjustable.
Barrels are hammer forged and are decent quality. Bedding will certainly help in getting and keeping an accurate shooter.
Tough to beat for the price.
RC
 
Have one in left hand 300 win mag. I picked mine at gagnon sports for a better price than tradex. Very happy for a Mauser action. You may have to adjust the trigger and float the barrel. But for 599 for a Mauser action I think I did very well.
 
Pick one up in 375 over the weekend. Tool marks everywhere, but otherwise pretty nice. Good deep bluing, wood is acceptable. If you are looking at a moderate price mauser, this is as nice as any out there.
 
You could also look up reviews on Remington 798, might find a used one. seems like these were fairly well made...all by Zastava...same gun.
 
sherlockbonez said:
Pick one up in 375 over the weekend. Tool marks everywhere, but otherwise pretty nice. Good deep bluing, wood is acceptable. If you are looking at a moderate price mauser, this is as nice as any out there.
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375 H&H in a standard action, how the action has been modified to fit the 375? Any pics of your action?
 
Buster95 said:
375 H&H in a standard action, how the action has been modified to fit the 375? Any pics of your action?
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Haha, no idea how it was modified, but fome what I can gather they took some metal off the bottom locking lug. I'll post some pics after I charge the battery.
 
Buster95 said:
375 H&H in a standard action, how the action has been modified to fit the 375? Any pics of your action?
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They remove some material in the bottom of the action to allow a SAAMI length cartridge to feed. A magnum length action would probably be less fussy about short stroking in addition to having more material behind the lower lug allowing for (higher) over pressure cartridges to be fired. As it is though I like mine as it feeds and shoots well. I have it doing about 3/4" with 300gr TSX's. Just bedded it last week and sighted it in a few days back and it seems like it might actually do better than that. First three bullets were closer to 1/2" and the 4th opened it up a bit...but I think that was more of my shooting than the gun. Either way if you want more info on how they do it look up 375 H&H mauser guns as many old military mausers were converted to this chambering.

That said my 6.5x55 I've been having a bastard of a time getting it to shoot well. Turns out I need to add some fore end pressure so I'll be doing that and trying again to see what I can do with it.
 
For the price they are ok, got 3 ...375 H&H, one Browning Xbolt, one CZ 550 and one Zavasta, like i said for the price they are fine but not close in finition and performance compare the more expensive one... JP.
 
caramel said:
For the price they are ok, got 3 ...375 H&H, one Browning Xbolt, one CZ 550 and one Zavasta, like i said for the price they are fine but not close in finition and performance compare the more expensive one... JP.
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None of the CZ 550 and Browning Xbolt are at the same price either .... for the price of those you ve got an optic and a zastava. for the finition the blue is really a deep one and i can tell you that the both zastava i own are making very good holes in the paper, yes they are not the best but if you compare with the trigger group of the Xbolt and the Zastava guess who's the winner ... i guided a group of techs from browning in northern quebec few years ago and after three days the Xbolt and her lovely trigger group stayed in the cabins .....!!!

the wood is maybe not the nicer and even that mine are again very lovely. it's dense.

again very hard to beat a zastava for the price. open sights, commercial mauser action, deep blue.

all the best.
 
I used a .458 Win Mag Zastava in Africa a bit last time over, it was a crude, working grade gun that seemed quite solid. I personally would choose one over a Remington or Savage. Stay away from the synthetic stocks, they're utter garbage, the wood is better I imagine. I think they're priced at what you get, the PH to whom the one I shot belonged wished he'd saved up and bought a Ruger, for what it's worth.
 
Ardent said:
I used a .458 Win Mag Zastava in Africa a bit last time over, it was a crude, working grade gun that seemed quite solid. I personally would choose one over a Remington or Savage. Stay away from the synthetic stocks, they're utter garbage, the wood is better I imagine. I think they're priced at what you get, the PH to whom the one I shot belonged wished he'd saved up and bought a Ruger, for what it's worth.
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Ardent,

when i lived in Africa we had different loaning guns and none were a Savage, a Ruger or a Remington. i ll not choose a Savage and i ve seen some problems with the remington 700 while guiding in northern Quebec they are good at the range, good in action when a smith is looking at it but out of the box no way ...

we had Interarms X (Zatava) and Weatherby Mark V (made in Japan).

the Ruger RSM was a good rifle for sure but at a double price of a Zastva ... but there is some of those rifles that were not functionning good plus some had the stock that splitted.
 
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