Need Info on a Mauser Model 98

[Redcoat3340]

K22fan...glad I live in Snohomish County! But you're right. What's happened in WA is a crime, even the NY Safe Act left 03 FFL holders able to have guns delivered to their doorstep as long as they came from OUT of NY State. I've read conflicting perspectives on 03's here, but I'm gonna play it conservatively until the AG rules.

 

[MrTrolleyguy]

Collecting German Mausers is right up there with nuclear physics and brain surgery. It takes a ton of study to play German Mauser collector.

I am going to take your advice, as well as that from others, and find a Military Surplus or Mauser Forum. That needs to be my next step.

All my basic Qs are answered.

Thanks to all!

 

[Arik]

Check out gunboards.com for just about anything surplus. There is a massive amount of info there. Someone will probably know who fielded that rifle

If you do get it and it does mechanically check out and if you do want to shoot it don't be afraid of those little sights. They arnt match rifles and never were. It's a military rifle and ment to hit a man not little red dots at 500 yards. When I owned 2 Yugo Mausers I had no problems hitting computer hard drives at 200 yards and laptops at 300 with random surplus ammo. The only reason I sold mine was because it was getting tiring trying to stock up on 7.62x54, 303, 8mm Mauser. I cut the Mausers and kept the rimmed ammo rifles

 

[sheepdawg]

Don't be afraid of the corrosive surplus stuff, I stocked up on it when it was around $0.18 cents a round and have some Yugo surplus made in 1950 that has come close to shooting m.o.a out of my 1937 Sauer & Sohn K98k. It's a bolt action rifle that was meant to shoot corrosive. The only things you have to clean real good is the bore, chamber and the bolt face, you'd probably do that anyway. Just clean it the same day you shoot it with some Hoppe's, no problem.

 

[k22fan]

Don't be afraid of the corrosive surplus [...] Just clean it the same day you shoot it with some Hoppe's, no problem.

Hoppe's #9 was never meant to remove salts. The basic solvent for salt is water which Hoppe's #9 lacks. I've not tried it but Hoppe's #9 black powder solvent probably would be O.K. Old stinky WWII GI surplus works great. In the absence of the stinky GI stuff I make a hot water swab one of the phases in a clean up after corrosive primers.

Incidentally, Turkish 8x57 surplus was available in crates for about 8 cents a shot during the 1990s. before that there were crates of .303 at 6 or 7 cents and of course the sardine cans of Chinese 7.62x39 for 5 to 6 cents. If not for arbitrary executive control of imports we'd still have similar prices. Too bad Republican presidents don't have the balls to reverse the executive orders of preceding Democratic presidents.

MrTrollyguy, Don't worry, I have a lots of posts without a single complaint from moderators.

 

[sheepdawg]

I guess I better tell that to my K98ks and my Mosin. Hey guys your bores should look like sewer pipes. By the way Hoppes contains ammonium hydroxide.



Ammonium hydroxide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



I think the main thing about shooting corrosive is to clean quickly whether you use hot water, Simple Green or Hoppes.

 

[k22fan]

I stand corrected.

This talk of scrubbing corrosive salts out of bores with water , or the water in ammonium hydroxide, brings to mind a now departed friends tales of being a private at Fort Lewis about 1960. Their sergeant had them take their M1 .30-06s out of the stocks then clean them in the showers.

 

[Arik]

I have only ever used Hopes and or CLP to clean my corrosive ammo. Since 1998 I have yet to have a rust problem