Mitchell Mauser Question

[.45s r best]

A gunshop by me had an Enfield No 5 mk1...for about a day! Beautiful piece!

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A gunshop by me had an Enfield No 5 mk1...for about a day! Beautiful piece!

Did you note the year/price? If I find another I may be compelled to purchase it.

[Doug Rammel]

Article in this months American Rifleman about Mitchells although some might say it is propaganda.

Everything in the article is hype. The price is ridiculous.

[Aragorn243]

To the collectors on here the price is ridiculous but there is a market for these things. A Mitchell's at auction here will bring double what a Russian capture will bring. Cabela's had 4 of those nasty ugly Yugo Mausers a week ago and now only has 1 and they were on "clearance" for $399. These being a new rifle, they are probably having no trouble getting it.

[Harlan (Deceased)]

I haven't seen the American Rifleman - Did they actually do an article about Mitchell Mausers??

I thought it was shameful they even had the old deceptive Mitchell Mauser ads.

[Harlan (Deceased)]

I used to get the American Rifleman but I let my membership (to everything) lapse when times got really tough after a long hospital stay.
Does anyone know if the article is on-line anywhere?

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Everything in the article is hype. The price is ridiculous.

Thus the propaganda word. The relationship between AR and Mitchell's has always seemed odd to me as the jury seems to be back on the (at best ) misleading aderatisments in AR by Mitchell's.

[Harlan (Deceased)]

You mean to imply the ads they had for years saying huge quantities of brand new condition, all matching, WWII vintage German K98 Mausers, untouched since the end of WWII were found hidden away in a closed factory in the Ukraine wasn't 100% true?

Say it isn't so, Joe!

The ads reminded me of the ads that used to be on the back page of the Sgt Rock comics I read in the 60's where if you bought greeting cards and then sold them they would send you a 6 ft long submarine. (Right under the ad for the 'X-ray glasses' that shows a creepy smirking guy looking through a lady's skirt)

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[QUOTE=Harlan;207936]You mean to imply the ads they had for years saying huge quantities of brand new condition, all matching, WWII vintage German K98 Mausers, untouched since the end of WWII were found hidden away in a closed factory in the Ukraine wasn't 100% true?

That is the ones.
Five Pinocchios on that add.
Love the comedy with refrences to my childhood memories.

[Aragorn243]

Getting way off target but I always wanted the D-Day invasion set complete with German bunkers and about 5000 toy soldiers.