Guys, I hate to say it but the new Mausers are rough in both metal and wood work, and IMO are worth only half of the $9500 price. For $10K you can get a very nice custom rifle on a GMA action which is head and shoulders above what you will find in the Sig Mauser. IMO.
Posts: 18352 | Location: Salt Lake City, Utah USA | Registered: 20 April 2002
On the subject of Mausers, have any of you gents any experience with the Mauser M 03 Africa? One in 458 Lott is soon available to me and I would have the option of buying a barrel in 375 H&H and or 9.3 x 62 as my medium rifle. Any comments would be welcome.
Now all we need is for the Austrians to start making the Mannlicher Schoenauer again....... as PRODUCTION rifles, not individually built custom pieces!
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Posts: 4386 | Location: New Woodstock, Madison County, Central NY | Registered: 04 January 2005
Originally posted by 500grains: Guys, I hate to say it but the new Mausers are rough in both metal and wood work, and IMO are worth only half of the $9500 price. For $10K you can get a very nice custom rifle on a GMA action which is head and shoulders above what you will find in the Sig Mauser. IMO.
Sumbitch shot my uncle........
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Posts: 4386 | Location: New Woodstock, Madison County, Central NY | Registered: 04 January 2005
Cabela's had a few in .450 Dakota, with the standard Mauser flag safety instead of the M70-style wing. $5500 would liberate those from the Gun Library.
They came with 14.75" LOP including a thin decelerator-type pad. Weighed 9.5 lbs.
They have no recoil lug on the barrel, but have a good factory glass bedding and crossbolts fore and aft of the magazine box.
The metal work is good. Glass bedding shows around the entire length of the barrel channel.
They are not in the same league as a Johannsen, but they are about half the price, in the Cabela's version. They are built with the same Prechtl action as the Johannsen rifles, except for variations on the safety with either.
Posts: 28032 | Location: KY | Registered: 09 December 2001
They are built with the same Prechtl action as the Johannsen rifles,
the same holds for the "new Mausers 98" type from Isny. The Mauser M 03 is in fact a Blaser which avoids some drawbacks of the R93: all steel, no plastic, rotary bolt. But also has separate cocking, switch barrel, lugs integral in the barrel etc.
you know, i've emailed the "contact" email address they give you on the mauserwaffen.de website several times, still no reply... what is going on?
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