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but can't compare to anything modern in a battlefield; I'd take my Ruger Mini is better. It's new, autoload, more accurate, little recoil/easier to shoot; and goes through 100 rounds of dusty federal ammo like crap through a goose.
Maybe it's just my particular Mauser but the thing is not accurate; it seems like the mag has a hard time sitting in the front lip or something. At the range it opened partly and I couldn't get the thing to open all the way, to put it back, so I just set is aside. i later learned the little trick after I got home; you have to press the button in all the way and to the back maybe. The action is not smooth. I sometimes have to wipe a case from the breech since it doesn't eject all the way / its an old design.
These are still in combat? And saw some action in Bosnia-HG in the 90's? I still like the firearm for what it is: a novelty, old school, bolt gun from decades ago; but if you gave me that thing to go out into a battlefield today; i am handing that thing right back to you and going home.
Maybe it's just my particular Mauser but the thing is not accurate; it seems like the mag has a hard time sitting in the front lip or something. At the range it opened partly and I couldn't get the thing to open all the way, to put it back, so I just set is aside. i later learned the little trick after I got home; you have to press the button in all the way and to the back maybe. The action is not smooth. I sometimes have to wipe a case from the breech since it doesn't eject all the way / its an old design.
These are still in combat? And saw some action in Bosnia-HG in the 90's? I still like the firearm for what it is: a novelty, old school, bolt gun from decades ago; but if you gave me that thing to go out into a battlefield today; i am handing that thing right back to you and going home.