Yugo 24/47 questions

[rocinante]

I just got one still in the cosmoline for 100. Bore looks great, bluing great, stock pretty good with only one repair on the bottom. I did good, huh?

Questions.

I know the 24/47 is not the same as the Czech vz24 but did the Czech make this rifle for the Yugos?

The rifles fired fine but was a little stiff and sticky ejecting. When just cycling cartridges it has no problem ejecting. Should I polish the chamber? Is that where I am getting the ejection resistance? I am fairly positive there is no cosmoline in the action at all. Should I just rent a stack of WWII movies and work the action to make it smoother? I can hear that mauser mimicking the cricket click now. What was that movie? The longest day? Had Henry Fonda in it.

I am stripping and sanding the stock and it is a nice piece of walnut with a minimum of dings and gouges. I did a quick stain of water based european cherry and satin polyurethane but didn't like the gloss so I stripped it all off and started over. Can I put back on the water based stain and then use tong oil to give it a deep luster that is not plastic looking? Or do I have to use an oil based stain?

If I really like this and want to gussy it up are there any aftermarket stocks that will fit this intermediate action?

Does anybody make a rubber recoil pad that will screw onto it? I have a slip on but would like it to look a little more together.

 

[Mr_Pale_Horse]

1. FN originally

2. Sticky bolt lift in not unusual. Use it a while.

 

[rocinante]

FN? Cool I just bought an FN49 so I expand both my FN and yugo categories.

So its belgian but still higher quality construction.

 

[Mr_Pale_Horse]

The original contract called for FN to provide 100,000 rifles, 110,000,000 cartridges, followed by tooling and support to setup production in Kragujevic. ~1,000,000 rifles were produced.

 

[rocinante]

So a 24/47 might be manufactured in Belgium or Yugoslavia? If so anyway to tell my serial number or markings?

 

[Mr_Pale_Horse]

Yes, on the original M1924 the left receiver rail marking from FN:

FAB. NAT.D'ARMES de GUERRE/HERSTAL - BELGIQUE

Left receiver rail marking Kragujevac:

APT.TEX.ЗАВОД-КРАГУЈЕВАЦ

After 1931:

BOJHOTEX.ЗАВОД-КРАГУЈЕВАЦ

Once converted to 24/47, the rail may read:

ПРЕДУЗЕБЕ 44 or
ЗАВОД 44 or
TRZ-5 or
. . .

 

[Cmdr. Gravez0r]

I believe only a precious few yugoslavian rifles were manufactured in Belgium and the rest in Yugoslavia, on German tooling I think. The FN marked ones fetch a premium.

Not to worry, they are excellent rifles, equivalent in the estimation of some to the German models.

more info at www.milsurpshooter.net

scroll down to the "yugo mauser" section.

 

[rocinante]

ПРЕДУЗЕБЕ 44

thats what my barrel says. So no way of knowing if it was beligan or yugo.

yeah I think it is a nice rifle.

 

[Mr_Pale_Horse]

ПРЕДУЗЕБЕ 44

The establishment is still making mausers to this day. The top one in the picture below was made in 1989. The lower one was made in 1957 (an M48B) and is marked ПРЕДУЗЕБЕ 44. Both have some of the same proof mark stamps shown in the document below.