Mauser Loves Us!
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Topic: Mauser Loves Us!
Posted By: CB900F
Subject: Mauser Loves Us!
Date Posted: 09 February 2008 at 12:21
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Fella's; My son recently vacationed in Innsbruck Austria. I asked him to please look for & visit a gunshop, if he could find one. Today I got the catalog from Jagdwaffen Fuchs delivered. Of course, I don't really know who these people are, but the catalog is a very high-quality 270 page full-color production featuring what are obviously good-to-premium lines & items for sale. Among which are Mauser rifles. And although my German language skills are rustyer'n hell, I made out that any Mauser model 03 is available in left hand bolt. Believe me, that caught my interest! So I went to ASK.com & searched for Mauser 03. Lo & behold, there is an American distributor. They are Briley manufacturing. The web site is: http://www.mauser-usa.net - www.mauser-usa.net . So, my search for a Mauser actioned left hand bolt, 6.5 Swede ends with - MAUSER! I'm going to contact Briley, but according to the web site, the cost should be approximately $1,400.00 for the gun. That's above the run-of-the-mill gun emporium Brownings, Rems, and the soon-to-be-re-released Winchester model 70's, but not all that far above. And go try to find an LHB 6.5 Swede anyplace else as an off the shelf gun. Good luck, yer gonna need it. I looked for many years without coming up with anything except catalog ghosts. You know, "It's cataloged, but there will be a waiting period of forever before we can actually get one for you". Now to see if the stars align & the actual price is remotely close to the catalog price. 900F ------------- Birth certificate!? He don't need no steenkink birth certificate!! |
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Posted By: Rob1
Date Posted: 09 February 2008 at 13:55
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The 03 is produced by Mauser but not a M98 design. Looks like nice rifles though.
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Posted By: CB900F
Date Posted: 09 February 2008 at 14:55
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Rob; I know it's not a M98 design, but it is a Mauser. And, as I said above, try to find a left handed 6.5 Swede anyplace else. On top of that, it's designed as a switch-barrel, ala Blaser. I'll have to enquire as to the cost of additional barrels. I might even have to break down & buy another Zeiss & make it a total-Euro gun. 900F ------------- Birth certificate!? He don't need no steenkink birth certificate!! |
Posted By: Rob1
Date Posted: 09 February 2008 at 17:01
You get a .270 barrel ------------- last in line for the nobel peace prize. first in line for pie Charter Member of the Round Earth Society |
Posted By: CB900F
Date Posted: 10 February 2008 at 01:57
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Rob; Your last message came through very distorted. Check your computor for problems. It was an illegible message. 900F ------------- Birth certificate!? He don't need no steenkink birth certificate!! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 10 February 2008 at 02:15
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Posted By: NH_Hunter
Date Posted: 10 February 2008 at 02:31
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I need one. Very badly. Oh CB, your prices are a bit off. If you download the price sheet, the M03 Rifle itself in one caliber costs $3395 for a wood blued gun, plus $500 for a lefty, so that makes it $3895 for your Swede. The barrels are the part that are $1500 each for spares. I would say that runs a bit higher than run-of-the-mill Sturm Rembrownchesters.  ------------- Leverguns make me smile Proud Left Handed Shooter |
Posted By: CB900F
Date Posted: 10 February 2008 at 09:08
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NH; Yup, I re-checked it. I had picked up the price of an extra barrel as the price of the gun. You're right, a left hand 6.5 would be more like $3895.00. And I think I'd be lucky to get it at that price. So, any 03 Mauser is available in a left handed configuration, but they don't love us. 900F ------------- Birth certificate!? He don't need no steenkink birth certificate!! |
Posted By: Otto
Date Posted: 30 April 2008 at 04:38
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CB900F: Just browsing, and saw your post. I hope this doesn't violate the rules of the forum, but I have a friend who has for sale a very nice Steyr-Mannlicher left-hand bolt rifle in 6.5x55. It's a beautiful gun, and a good shooter. It has a rotary magazine and a set trigger. I'm not certain of the price, but I would be happy to find out.
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Posted By: TasunkaWitko
Date Posted: 04 May 2008 at 01:57
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hi, otto, and welcome to BSB. nope, no rules violations at all - always good to hear of a fine rifle for sale. we do have a classifieds section and you are welcome to also post there as well, if you want! feel free to check out all of the areas on BSB, and make yourself at hm ~ ------------- TasunkaWitko - Chinook, Montana  Helfen, Wehren, Heilen Die Wahrheit wird euch frei machen |
