1895 chilean mauser ????

[OLDER THEN DIRT]

Found one in very good condition & all there. It`s in 7X57mm & a good bore. I would want to use this rifle as a shooter also. (targets) I would like some imput on the value of it, if you could. Thanks in advance.

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[Patrick Chadwick]

I would like some imput on the value of it,

Not much as a target rifle. They do not have a ramp backsight bed, but an annoying fixed sight for (I think) 300 meters, and then a ladder that starts at 400 meters! About the only way to have an adjustable sight down to 100 is to fit one of the extra-high K98 front sight blades, so that you can use the ladder. And then you need Blu-Tak (or, in sheer desperation chewing-gum) to hold the backsight slider in intermediate positions.

A friend has just sold his long Chilean 95 for 50 euros, for precisely this reason.
BUT, if you fit a scope, then you can extract the maximum accuracy from the 7x57 cartridge. Which is excellent. As convincingly demonstrated by the Boers vs. British and Spaniards vs. USA.

Price: from the above, I would guess a maximum of 100, in all-matching top condition.

Patrick

[Badger]

My very first rifle I ever bought which started me out collecting Mausers was an 1895 Chilean....

My Collection - 1895 Mauser - Lowe

Regards,
Doug

[Aragorn243]

I picked up an all matching good condition Chilean for about $100 in the US last summer. Stock looked horrible, very dark black and kind of gooey. Cleaned it up and found all the stock markings intact. I'd say average price for a decent looking functional rifle with a good bore is about $200 but I've seen them as high as $300. I got a really good deal on mine, they wanted to get rid of it plus it just looked bad.

Ammo is a little difficult to find and a bit more expensive than some of the other milsurp calibers but it's not terrible, depends where you buy it. Cabela's sells it for about $25 a box, Bass Pro Shops about $35 a box (same type). My local gunshops if they get it are somewhere in the middle.

Dunhams sells them periodically. Their regular price is a bit over $200 if I remember correctly. I don't know if they put these on sale, haven't seen them in their flyers.