M48 sniper

[Jim]

Work's nice when you got it these days! My only gripe is that I haven't been to the range in a month, and the work just keeps pouring in. Oh, well.

All this info is new to me, though, as Mausers are a bit outside my usual sphere of collecting.

It's a whole other world from other types, but then, aren't they all?

One thing that I consider more rewarding about them is that more is known about the many markings than on many of the Mosins. You often have to dig, but there's good odds of finding an answer to what most of them are. Of course, here I am specializing in Yugos when most of the Post War inspection stamps specifics are unknown. Still, we keep looking. Very often, the truth is out there. We pegged TRZ.5 at Hadzici didn't we?!

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[jmoore]

One thing that I consider more rewarding about them is that more is known about the many markings than on many of the Mosins. You often have to dig, but there's good odds of finding an answer to what most of them are. Of course, here I am specializing in Yugos when most of the Post War inspection stamps specifics are unknown. Still, we keep looking. Very often, the truth is out there. We pegged TRZ.5 at Hadzici didn't we?!

Sorry, Read6737, I was responding to both you and Jim (see the end of his post, above). His reference to Hadzici (and its misfortunes) brought back memories of a bit of uranium with which I almost had a close encounter. Do the Google thing on Hadzici (or TRZ.5) if you haven't made the Yugo sniper connection yet- it IS a bit tenuous, I'll admit!