8mm mauser m1924 type 2

[Jim]

Very nice. One thing to consider is that the cleaning rod should be blued.

[WFO]

yep i need to do that btw also jim my yugo is missing the capture screws do you have a source that i can find them the ones i got didnt fit? thanks in advance

[ed_1951]

I was give a WW II rifle over 35 years ago, not sure what make or model it is. I keep it in my rifle cabinet and take out out for cleaning and have never fired it. I have posted some pictures in case you want to look at it and let me know what I've got.

Thanks

ed_1952

[Patrick Chadwick]

Jugoslav Mauser Model 1924.
Non-matching.
Caliber should be 7.92x57 (a.k.a. 8mm Mauser) unless it has been rechambered.
Check before loading!

Patrick

[ed_1951]

Jugoslav Mauser Model 1924.
Non-matching.
Caliber should be 7.92x57 (a.k.a. 8mm Mauser) unless it has been rechambered.
Check before loading!

Patrick

Is it woth anything?

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Is it worth anything?

[Patrick Chadwick]

I don't know in which country you reside, so I can only say: in Mauserland, not much. The market is flooded with Yugoslav mixmasters. A friend just got a good shooter for 66 Euros.

Patrick

[Jim]

Don't be so quick to write off what you don't know about. That is a Yugoslav Model 1924B. Those are rifles converted either from German Gew98 rifles or Mexican model 1912 7mm rifles. These were rechambered to 8mm spitzer round. Both rifles were altered to the standard of the M1924 short rifle.

By the marks on the bolt (of those I am not too sure) I would hazard to guess this one was originally a Gew 98. You do not see that many of these available any more. It well may, even in this condition, fetch $300 or better (assuming a decent bore) in the USA or Canada.

[Jim]

Yep jim thank you very much i was always curious about the history of it it's funny my dad got this rifle in a barrell full of mausers back in the 70s for 25 bucks he used it for years for elk hunting and always did great anyways i always loved that old thing when i was young but for some reason he cut the stock to sporterize it ( why? i have no clue) well after many years he finally gave it to me and iam putting it back to original ( picking up a stock i found on ebay this weekend) .

I can add some more to this... I just noticed WFO had PM'd me way back in Sept. For some reason, I never noticed it until now. (SORRY!!!) Any way, his PM and the part of his quote in bold above tie together and warrant an answer.

First as to why your dad sporterized the thing. Then as now, a good sporting rifle could put a dent in your pocket and unlike today (more's the pity) a lot more people hunted. It was still a wide spread time honored tradition. (Held up in part by the fact that more people lived in the country than did in the cities. That has only changed in the last decade I believe.) A lot of the men of 25 years ago were WWII veterans who well knew the quality of Mauser rifles from being on the hard end of them. Starting back in the 50s or 60s, (I only recall the 60s, to young in the 50s) they started putting out these WWII surplus guns for pennies on the dollar- like your Dad's barrel of $25 Mausers. Only thing was, most of those guys had no interest in collecting military weapons. They wanted a sporting rifle and they wanted it to look like one. A whole generation of closet and garage gunsmiths made their money converting military Mausers into sporting rifles. Financially, it only made sense. Even a lot of high end custom guns of the day started as military surplus. These were, as a rule, well made whether plain or fancy, no relation to today's Bubba hack jobs. (I once saw an Arisaka (complete with dust cover and intact mums!) that had the front sight ear guards literally struck off with a chisel.

Unfortunately, the thought that some at least among those might one day prove collectible or even valuable never even dawned upon the average fellow.

Concerning that odd stock cut for the sling, that would have been a German modification to use K98 slings. Sure proof of German capture and a very desirable (before chopping) example. Back in the day, if you'd have drug one of those rifles out of the barrel and said "You know, one day this rifle might be worth as much as $500..." you'd have been laughed right out of the store. (And I do not exaggerate. Intact CXC rifles have brought as much as that and German modifications will drive up the price too.

Well, there you have it.

[WFO]

thanks jim! and i also apologize for the late response ( been busy as hell)