What Is The Best Mauser Rifle Bar None?

[P-07ShortLee]

"What Is The Best Mauser Rifle Bar None?"

Are there "bad" ones?

[smellie]

"Best Mauser Rifle, Bar None" title would have to go to the rifle which displays the best of EVERYTHING.

Nobody has considered sights.

When you consider sights also, the only Mauser military rifle worth considering is the P-14/M-1917.

It is a true Mauser action in every way, fitted with a far more convenient safety. It is "short rifle" length and it has the best sights of ALMOST anything put into mass production before the Garand. I say "almost" because te ROSS had an excellent, fully-adjustable aperture sight, although it was exposed and relatively fragile.

But the M-1917 and its P-'14 parent were the best Mausers ever produced in quantity..... and there were near 4,000,000 of them made.
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[gew8805]

What Is The Best Mauser Rifle Bar None?

An easy question to answer - hands down it is the German standard military rifle of WW1, the Gewehr98. None better.

[Patrick Chadwick]

An easy question to answer - hands down

And what, pray, are your arguments in support of this contentious proposition?

[mike webb]

Quality is very high in most of them and they were used by 54 different nations officially. And of the 54 nations many had different models and variations, a collectors dream if there ever was one. Personally I like the 1908 Brazilian and the pre ww2 German k98k's best but that certainly doesn't mean they are better just more interesting to me. The American gun writer most well known in the 20's and 30's , Townsend Whelan, of .35 Whelan fame called the Mauser," Just another damned squarehead gun.". Even though all of his favourite American bolts were direct Mauser rip-offs. Obviously an unbalanced individual.

[monkeyhammer]

I would pick the 1935 Chilean Carbine.

[Greasemonkey]

Out of the ones I have, VZ-24, Yugo M48 & M48B, Turk M38, M1917, FR 8. I would choose the FR 8, short, compact and packs a punch, plus it's one of the oddest looking Mausers, in my book. Sighting system, the M1917.

[Palehorse_AFK]

The first year production DWM 1895 (spring 1897) Chilean Long Rifle.

[rdm1962]

I'm no expert and have far less experiance than many of you folks but, My choice is the Yugo M48's. I own a 1914 Eddystone, K98, Chilian 1895, and several others. My M48A and M48BO Syerian contract shoot better than the rest. The intermeadate action may be stiffer and could be the reason? I don't know, this is only my opinon. What you shoot best is your fav. and the rite choice for you.
Ralph

[Calfed]

I'm no expert and have far less experiance than many of you folks but, My choice is the Yugo M48's. I own a 1914 Eddystone, K98, Chilian 1895, and several others. My M48A and M48BO Syerian contract shoot better than the rest. The intermeadate action may be stiffer and could be the reason? I don't know, this is only my opinon. What you shoot best is your fav. and the rite choice for you.
Ralph

Hey, does that M48 Syrian have a crest on the receiver? I've got an M48 that has the Iraqi Hashemite crest on it that is a great shooter. I wouldn't call it the "best Mauser ever", but it is certainly a good one.