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WW1 era hunting rifle mouser action

tscheutzow
Hello, I have an old hunting rifle that has a mouser action. From the research i have done it appears to be a very rare gun. My grandfather brought it back from the war and gave it to me years ago. He has long since passed away so I can't ask him anything about it.

I need some help with it. Let me give you the appearance information.

It has a full length manlicher style stock, the receiver is ornate with carvings over most of the surfaces. It has a bent cycling handle with the end flattened and ornately carved up. The magazine well doesn't protrude from the bottom of the stock and it has an original scope that uses the "claw" style mounting system. It also has the double set trigger.

It looks to use the .318 8X60 round that was permitted after the treaty of Versailles. I tried a regular 8x57 round and it was to "short" for the chamber.

Does anyone have one of these?

Thanks,
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  • sandwarrior
    tscheutzow,

    Welcome to the forums!

    The best thing you can do is post some pics if you can. This sounds like a very nice rifle and of course we all like that and would like to see pics of that.

    If and when you take pics of it, carefully take it out of the stock and see what kind of proofs it has underneath the wood line. A lot of these old rifles would have some great stories of places they've been...if they could only talk.

    p.s. use a hollow ground tip for a screw driver if you can find one. They fit gunscrews better than standard flat-blade type screw drivers. It helps prevent scratches when working on these.

    Edit: Yes, there are a number of these 8x60's about. .318" dia. is not nearly as common here in the U.S. as over in Europe though. It is good you caught that. firing .323" bullets in a .318 bore can cause dangerous pressures.
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  • nononsense
    tscheutzow,

    Welcome to the Gunbroker Forums!

    There is a Sticky at the top of this page titled 'Posting Photographs' which will help guide you in this process.

    If you don't have the proper tools for taking the barreled action out of the stock, take it to a gunsmith. He can remove the screws, you take the pictures and then have him put it back together.

    The proof marks and any writing are important to the story of this rifle.

    It's Mauser (not mouser).

    Rare will be difficult to prove since Germany and Austria still functioned on the Guild system. There were hundreds of little one-man shops which specialized in highly decorated Mausers. Because it is a one-of-a-kind, doesn't make it rare.

    Best.
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  • tscheutzow
    Thanks for the kind welcome messages.

    I'm rather lucky, I have a machine shop and do a lot of work on weapons so I have the ability to take it down completely.

    I managed to get it completely stripped down and i'm going to photograph it tonight for you all to see. It's really a nice gun and would love to shoot it. I was very lucky, my grandfather brought a bunch of guns home and gave them all to me before he passed. This is the last one that I haven't been able to figure out what it is.

    Thanks again for the responses. I hope the pictures help.
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