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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - K98b in 7.62x51 repro?

Posted: 6/12/2021 12:20:08 PM EDT

Did Mitchell Mauser or any other reproduction company make a 308 version to mimic the Israeli Mausers?

Looking at one a friend has and I am trying to put together a fair price for it. It is obviously a reproduction rifle, exactly like a Mitchell Mauser. However, it is chambered in 308 and marked both 308 and 7.62 on the barrel under the hand guard.

Posted: 6/12/2021 1:03:34 PM EDT

[#1]

I want to say that Zastava of Serbia did turn out some commercial versions of their M48 Mausers in .308. I don't have one but I think I recall seeing one somewhere before.

Posted: 6/12/2021 1:27:44 PM EDT

[#2]

got pics?

Posted: 6/12/2021 2:22:13 PM EDT

[#3]

Here is some photos,

Posted: 6/12/2021 8:24:31 PM EDT

[#4]

It looks like a put together rifle from various surplus mauser parts. Stock looks Brazilian .

Basically a fantasy piece.

Posted: 6/13/2021 2:07:25 AM EDT

[#5]

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It looks like a put together rifle from various surplus mauser parts. Stock looks Brazilian .

Basically a fantasy piece.

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Definitely a poor reproduction. However the fit and finish and reproduction markings matching across all the parts indicates it was manufactured as a complete new rifle. I can’t find what company did it. Mitchell’s sells the same bayonet that came with it. Everything points that direction. I can’t find any info they had a 308 rifle made like it.

Posted: 6/14/2021 6:45:07 PM EDT

[#6]

Easily worth a Brazilian dollars

Posted: 6/16/2021 4:14:30 PM EDT

[#7]

That's a nice rifle regardless of it's origin.

I'd say $300-$400 easy.

Posted: 6/17/2021 4:20:13 PM EDT

[#8]

I for one like it. A front sight hood would be gravy for me. The stock looks good & I would offer up $400 to 500 w/o a second thought if it chambered and locked up.

Posted: 6/17/2021 7:58:43 PM EDT

[#9]

I like it.

Posted: 6/18/2021 7:01:57 AM EDT

[#10]

I'm curious as to where that receiver came from. I don't think I've ever seen a side rail marking of Karab 98b. I know there was a Kar 98b but that was essentially a Gew 98 with a bent bolt

Posted: 6/21/2021 1:54:04 PM EDT

[#11]

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I'm curious as to where that receiver came from. I don't think I've ever seen a side rail marking of Karab 98b.

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It's a thing. Interwar K98b rifles were marked as such on the side rail.

Posted: 6/22/2021 12:04:52 AM EDT

[#12]

Total put together of some sort...siderail marking is correct for a Karab 98b, which in original trim are pretty scarce. But someone put this together...

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - K98b in 7.62x51 repro?

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