Sounds like there are either Mitchell fans or some Mitchell employees out there. Yugoicon M48's are perfectly good rifles, though Mitchell's prices were twice what others sold them for. But Mitchell's lies about them being K.98k's, used in WWII by the Germans were just too much. Oh, I forgot, they didn't QUITE lie, just used some clever language to make people believe the rifles were what they are not.

The true K98kicon's they sell are genuine, but rebuilt and refinished more as decorators than as collectibles. That they are shootable rifles is not in question. But Mitchell's is selling as collectible, and charging collector prices for, reworked, mismatched, and refinished guns that have little or no collector value.

I see the problem with Mitchell not being the rifles themselves - they are what they are - but the hype and not-quite lies used to sell them at inflated prices.

(OK, let's hear from those Mitchell employees, and say Hi to your boss for me.)

Jim