The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

I've always wanted a Mauser but unfortunately I didn't get into collecting/shooting rifles until the 8mm surplus was gone. This kept me from purchasing one and stuck to Mosin Nagants. Here are my first Mauser's I added to my collection this weekend. Spanish M44 Air Force & 1937 Turkish 1903, both being 8mm Mauser.
They are both numbers matching and only the Turk has import marks. I've been looking at info on the M44 and I guess dating it would be impossible.

Nice rifles ! I know the feeling on the 8mm surplus. I've had to forgo rifle purchases to keep feeding mine but it still seems worth it haha.

http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/product/AMM-858

Surprisingly I was able to just get a crate of 50's Yugo 8mm for .36/round before shipping on gun broker. Just keep an eye online and your local armslist, okay prices occasionally come up. A few of the retailers online have the Romanian 8mm. Their prices are slowly creeping down but are still over .50 Round.

My Spanish Air Force Mauser and the last Turk Mauser I bought both needed new firing pin springs to shoot the 50's Yugo stuff.

Do not skip the headspace check with these!

looking good!!

Nice pair.

they look good and like JYD said check head space

Nice Air Force Mauser. They remind me of a cross between a VZ-24 and a Portuguese 1904.


Here is what it looked like before they refurbished them.

It is interesting how many country's took the German rifles and scrubbed them. I'll have to pick up Yugo 98/48 next I guess. Compared to the Turk which has crescent moons everywhere, the M44 has almost no markings/proofs.

That's because the Germans keep losing wars and leaving their toys around for others to collect up and use.

Finally got my C&R recently and put it to good use and added three new rifles to the collection. First is a 1895 Chilean Mauser, 1923 Finnish captured Tula M91, and won an auction on a 1943 Tikka M91 (Hopefully...only a picture of the rifle which was definetly a M91 and vague description "1943 Russian Mosin Nagant").

Nice Sounds like a typical Finn Tikka M91, one of mine is a '43. If you got it at Soviet refurb 1943 M91/30 price then you did well.

Nice

There are definitely some nice looking rifles in this thread. I sure like the Tikka m91.