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Mauser Short Slide Rail Bolt Action Sniper Rifle

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military Start Price:900.00 USD
Mauser Short Slide Rail Bolt Action Sniper Rifle
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Mauser Short Slide Rail Bolt Action Sniper Rifle, (dou-43) by Waffen Werke, Bystrica, #R1551, 8x57mm, 24'' barrel, blue finish, red glued laminated stock, and brown leather WWII era K98 sling. Topped with an Emil Busch steel tube scope on sliding short rail sniper mount. Rifle shows almost all mixed parts and may have been built up and repurposed by a foreign country (most likely Yugoslavia) after WWII. Condition is very good to fine and makes for a nice representative sniper rifle. Metal surfaces appear to have been arsenal refinished at one point and are about 75% present, as most of the top of the barrel and barrel bands have thinned and toned. Bottom edge of buttstock appears to have been inletted for a sling swivel at one point, which has now been removed and filled. Scope mount and rails are unnumbered, and japanned finish to scope has flaked revealing a gray/blue beneath; only approx. 30% of the japanning remains. Good functioning action, very good bore, scope optics are very good with 4-post reticles. $1,800-$2,400. (C&R)(John Ackerman collection)