German Mauser

[DON HARRISON YOUNG]

I just joined the high road and i like the talking between everyone. I just bought a german 98m mauser. It was made in 1943 with matching numbers-it has a 4 x 40 bushnell scope, a stock that looks like curly maple. It looks brand new. I bought it since the guy that i know owes me 750.00 and he left me with 2200 8 mm shells that i later had a guy that reads arabic determine the shells were made in 1956. However, all mauser shells require one to clean their mauser after shooting due to the corrosive nature of the powder or primer-i'm not sur which. These are armour piercing, sniper shells. A guy tried to give me 200.00 for all these shells, but i took his advice and bought my own one of a kind mauser. I am waiting on arrival. Had trouble with the ffl i used. Does anyone know the actual value of these shells. They have been keep dry and each box has 190 on them which i was told was the grain. Beibg they can pierce armour and are for sniper purposes, made in egypt. What does anyone think?

Thanks,
don young

 

[gun addict]

sry, but there are no ARMOR PIERCING SNIPER 8mm rounds, that guy selling it to you is just jerking your chain. the only avaliable "sniper" 8mm are the Yugoslavian M75 which is about as accurate as the regular 70s Yugo ammo.

There are other accurate 8x57 ammo avaliable such as Portugese, 70s Romanian and the original 30s German SS patron.

If your ammo has arabic on the bottom it's either Egyptian or Turkish stuff. Good for plinking but valued about $.12-15 a shot?

 

[rcmodel]

It looks brand new.

It should.
It's a sporterized WWII german army rifle, probably redone in the 60's or 70's.

Whoever made a deer rifle out of it and put the new stock on it probably re-blued it too.

If you paid $750 for it, you got the purple barbed shaft!

rc

 

[jimmyraythomason]

If you paid $750 for it, you got the purple barbed shaft!

Well he DID get 2200 rounds of ammo in the deal. Even at $4.00 per 20 that comes to $440. So he actually paid about $310 for the rifle.

 

[hso]

He only got stuck a little.

Some pictures would help a lot. Ammo, head stamps on the ammo, overall view of rifle, chamber and bore views.

 

[Ron James]

The way I read it, he purchased the rifle after he was given the ammo? He wanted something to shoot the ammo .

 

[jimmyraythomason]

You're right Ron. After re-reading the OP,I see he doesn't say how much he paid for the sporter. I think he says he took the ammo in lieu of the $750 owed to him. That would mean the ammo "cost" him the equivelant of $6.81 per box of 20.