canoeguy
US Veteran
You may remember I posted a few weeks ago that a friend was liquidating a large collection of long guns, over 70 of them, and he gave me first crack at a M48 Yugoslavian Mauser in .308 caliber. This was a like new rifle, originally chambered and marked on the reciever ".308". He let me shoot it, I liked it and wanted it, down side was the rifle had been drilled and tapped for a Lyman reciever sight, affecting the value....
He hemmed and hawed for over a month before setting a price, not too high but what I thought was $100 or so too high considering the holes drilled, he settled the deal by wrapping me up a nice package, the .308 Mauser, a nice M24 8MM Yugo Mauser (with straight bolt) and a plethora of ammuniton, casting and reloading supplies.
.308 Mauser and sling:
M24 8MM Mauser. Bore is like new, shoots good and likes cast lead bullets:
The reloading goodies included a set of RCBS 8MM dies, a Lee 175 grain 8MM bullet mold, 1000 8mm gas checks for casting lead bullets, 200 new 8MM cases and 350 rounds of surplus 8MM ammo. The ammo is Ecuadoran, Egyptian and Israeli, the Israeli ammo has a 1955 head stamp, so that's pretty interesting. I've already hand loaded and shot up 50 jacketed rounds, and 50 mildly loaded cast lead bullets. The M24 shoots good, accurately and to point of aim. I'm a happy camper...
Best part, he's still got tonnage of rifles and reloading stuff to unload! When my wallet has recovered from this deal, I'll take another look at helping him reduce his burden.
He hemmed and hawed for over a month before setting a price, not too high but what I thought was $100 or so too high considering the holes drilled, he settled the deal by wrapping me up a nice package, the .308 Mauser, a nice M24 8MM Yugo Mauser (with straight bolt) and a plethora of ammuniton, casting and reloading supplies.
.308 Mauser and sling:
M24 8MM Mauser. Bore is like new, shoots good and likes cast lead bullets:
The reloading goodies included a set of RCBS 8MM dies, a Lee 175 grain 8MM bullet mold, 1000 8mm gas checks for casting lead bullets, 200 new 8MM cases and 350 rounds of surplus 8MM ammo. The ammo is Ecuadoran, Egyptian and Israeli, the Israeli ammo has a 1955 head stamp, so that's pretty interesting. I've already hand loaded and shot up 50 jacketed rounds, and 50 mildly loaded cast lead bullets. The M24 shoots good, accurately and to point of aim. I'm a happy camper...
Best part, he's still got tonnage of rifles and reloading stuff to unload! When my wallet has recovered from this deal, I'll take another look at helping him reduce his burden.
