[Beak50]

I got one one these brand new without any accessories when my best friends Dad Died for free.Are they really that big of pos or did I do right when I brought a $40.00 BSA 6-24 Mil-Dot AO and Mounts for it?I reload all my ammo for it But I cant find very many different loads for it with the Nosler 200gr. Accubonds I've loaded 40 shells so far with Magnum Primers and 48grs.of Varget.I have yet to shoot it though.The gun is Beautiful and Free best of all but all I hear is that they are junk.I've read alot about them having a shorter Bolt and wood where a k-98 dosen't. I figure I could soot deer with it at least and target shoot. Why all the Bad talk about them?

[Beak50]

By the way the M-48 came with a" Letter of Provenance"Saying this is a K-98 Manufactured in germany during WW2 and factory overhauled and is completely in it's original Military configuration.If I had a scanner I would take pic's But I cant unless theres another way.

[DPris]

The M48 is a Yugoslavian gun, built after the war & not by Germans. It is not a true K98, slightly shorter action.
That said, they are no POS. I have one, a very good example of a classic military Mauser pattern.
Yours is not "brand new", it was just cleaned up by MM before it was sold after they brought the gun into the US. It is not a collector gun, it has no real collector value.
Should be a good shooter, although I'd expect very little from a $40 scope.
Whoever told you the M48s are junk is either misinformed or an idiot. Possibly both.
Denis

[stan rose]

They are alot of fun to shoot, hard to damange, and usually pretty accurate. I have one that I put Mojo peep sights on. I don't now how those sights would work for hunting due to the hollow front sight against fur, but for paper and plinking they are hard to beat. There are some good .323 bullet selections out there and Lee makes bullet molds if you want to cast. What ever you do I am sure you will enjoy the gun.

[madcratebuilder]

The M48BO was that last rmodel off the line. These are generally the best made of the M48's. Many of the Yugo's that MM sold where basically new rifles that had never been in service. The rifles are great, Mitchell's advertizing is like one of Barry's speeches.

I found this BO last year, completed my M48 line.
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d37/madcratebuilder/Yugo/pix61427515.jpg

[Carl N. Brown]

Like most folks who have seen, handled Mitchell Mauser imported Yugo M48s, I will agree Mitchell Mausers Yugo M48s are good guns. Mitchell Mausers advertising rhetoric galls the heck out of dyed-in-the-wool true-blue-blood collectors; I think you have to go back to the 1960s and "Hy Hunter" to find hype of the same caliber. If you are willing to pay someone else $100+ to clean up, accessorize and neatly box a nice, shootable Mauser, they are worth it for what they are: practically unissued shootable Yugoslav Mausers, but they are not the ultimate collectable Mausers in my opinion for what that is worth. I suspect though, that even if you can find more collectible Mausers at the same or lower price if you just look, the Yugo M48s won't lose value in the long run. They are just over-promoted by MM.

[InkEd]

The discontent is for Mitchell's Mausers not the guns themselves. They advertise the rifles as being of higher collector value than they are actually worth. If you don't mind paying a little extra for what is generally considered to be a nice looking shooter grade rifle them there is nothing wrong with them. I would prefer a German K98 but for free, there's no complaint.

[Rshooter]

You will not hear me calling them junk. I have an M48 and a BO and while not collectors items they shoot well. I believe you would be hard pressed to find a new rifle of the same quality for what you can pick up a good m48 for.

[Smokey in PHX]

I have the M48 but have yet to clean it and shoot it. Have fired several owned by friends and was impressed by the accuracy. Just have not had the time to take mine apart and do the cleaning process. Mine appears to be in good shape with all matching numbers. It just has most of the cosmoline ever made in the world in it.

Mitchell's Mausers should be running out of rifles soon as much as he advertises these things.

[DPris]

I was very happy to pay the extra to have somebody else mess with the mess of de-gunking my two Yugomausers. :)
Denis

[Beak50]

Thanks guy's if the BSA scope is messed up I got many other's to pick from even a leuopold 6.5x20 Vari x 3. Greatly Appreciated advice.

[john5036]

Curious, "BO"?

[Beak50]

From what I understand they are un-marked because they were supposed to be shipped to Egypt.But BO means no-markings,just serial# no stamped markings on the reciever ect.

[madcratebuilder]

"BO" is the abbreviation for "bez oznake" which means "unmarked"

Yugoslavia supported the so-called "National Liberation Movements" This is what the BO was intended for

Many of these BO's would receive a crest of the country that purchased them. Syrian, Iraqi, Indonesian, Burma and Egypt also bought 1948A models from 1957 to 1960.

[Carl N. Brown]

I got one one these brand new without any accessories when my best friends Dad Died ... By the way the M-48 came with a "Letter of Provenance" Saying this is a K-98 Manufactured in germany during WW2 ....
Sounds like the friend's dad may have owned both a M-48 and a 98k at one time, and the M-48 and 98k letter of provenance got mismatched. There could be a 98k out there with a M-48 accessory kit, for that matter. This happens a lot when us old geezers die without leaving our heirs any clue about our collections.

[Beak50]

You were right his dad had the right letter for the M-48.But the K-98 is gone,Picking it up tomorrow.He figure's before his Dad died he needed the cash But why not give the letter to the buyer when he got it? Thank You,I never would of thought of that. thank's agian.