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rug454
Hi, my uncle has a International Arms, mouser style bolt action,
,264 cal super mag, 8 power weaver scope, that folds over out of the way for sight shots. I think the year of it is from the 60s or 70s. I know that it is not much info but does anyone think they know about this rifle.. Or conpany that produced it..
Thanks
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  • Robin
    I don't know about the manufacturer, International Arms, however I can relay to you that the .264 mag is well known as a barrel burner. I have read several articles that specifically refer to the very short life of .264 mag chambers and barrels. I have seen this chambering in very nice Sako rifles. Good Luck

    Worry is the interest humans pay on the debt of miscalculation.
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  • ern98
    I also don't know about the International brand name, but, if you pull the action screws and remove the barreled action from the wood you may find more info. Back then FN was selling their commercial rifle under a bunch of different monikers, including Sears. The way you can tell if it is a commercial or military surplus action is by looking to see if there is a thumb cut gap in the left side of the receiver and if there is a stripper clip slot in the top rear. If these are not there then it is a commercial action. Back then FN was the major source of these, soon followed by Santa Barbara of Spain and eventully the Mark X from Yugoslavia. If the barrel isn't shot out then it may be a very desireable piece as the 264 was never a big seller.
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  • remington nut
    i have 2 264's and another on the way ... (i think) so far the loads i'm running in them are around 2950 avg. and with 3 shot groups the barrel doesnt get much warmer/if any than my 30-06.... the barrel they used on the first of the 264's back in 59 werent the greatest metals..and didnt stand up to much abuse... IMO as long as you arent just blasting non stop you wouldnt have any problems with burning the barrels at reasonable velocity levels
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  • He Dog
    International Arms was an importer not a manufacturer. Likely made by FN or in Japan.
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  • He Dog
    This one has been niggling at me, so I got out the books. I do not find International Arms, but there is, or rather was, Interarms which sold rifles of good quality made by Howa in Japan. Also International Distributers, which sold Mauser style rifles of unstated manufacture in various calibers.
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  • nononsense
    rug454,

    The identity of your MAUSER is going to stay a mystery until you can find some more information on the rifle itself. As has been suggested, you can take the barreled action out of the stock and photograph the proofmarks, inspection marks and any other telltale marks and post those so we can check. These will likely be on the sides and bottom of the barrel and the sides and bottom of the receiver.

    I think that I know what type of rifle it is since I bought one similar to your description a few years ago. But, if you can get some of the marks photographed, the information can come faster and more accurate.


    He Dog,

    I think that I'm in the same boat with you on this. It is niggling (I like that term) at the back of my brain also. It seems that there was a distributor with the name International Arms but I can never come up with any material on the company. The reference to Interarms is always a good one since it evolves from the '50's as well. The statement "...which sold Mauser style rifles of unstated manufacture in various calibers." is very appropriate. Some of the first receivers didn't even have serial numbers and proof/inspection markes were significant by there absence. The other distributor that can be hard to find information on is ADANAC. But at least they used proof marks.

    A brief introduction to Interarms:

    Small Arms and Mr Cummings
    At the low-tech level of arms brokering, the international trade was long dominated by a US- and British-based trading company, the International Armament Corporation, better known as Interarms. The sole owner of the company, Samuel Cummings, was a former CIA agent who used his connections to run the operations from the time he set up the company in the USA in 1953 until his death in April 1998.(34)

    Cummings began brokering private arms deals, buying and selling small arms at the age of 26. He later started subsidiaries in the UK, Canada and elsewhere. He made his first millions by buying surplus weapons left over from World War II in Europe and shipping them to the newly independent states of Africa, Latin America and the Far East. By 1960 Cummings was the most important private arms dealer in the world, boasting he could arm, within 24 hours, half a million men. Between 1953 and 1968, he bought more than 4.5 million guns and 500 million rounds of ammunition from European stocks. Most of his clients were Third World governments; he developed personal friendships with numerous dictators and heads of state, generating a turnover estimated at US $80 million each year from buying and selling pistols, rifles, sub-
    machine guns and hand grenades.

    Cummings was prepared to sell to anyone. He claimed never to have broken the laws of the USA and the UK, where his headquarters were based - which itself is an indication of how loose the laws have been. He was caught only once for breaking an
    embargo, when he brokered a deal for Pakistan in 1965. The shells were flown from West Germany to Iran and then sent to Pakistan `for repair'.(35)

    34 J. Y. Smith, `Arms Dealer Samuel Cummings Dies', The Washington Post, 2 May 1998.
    35 Patrick Brogan & Albert Zarca, Deadly Business: Sam Cummings. Interarms and the Arms Trade (New York: W.W. Norton, 1984).

    http://www.nisat.org/publications/armsfixers/Chapter1.html
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  • rufe-snow
    quote:Originally posted by rug454

    Hi, my uncle has a International Arms, mouser style bolt action,
    ,264 cal super mag, 8 power weaver scope, that folds over out of the way for sight shots. I think the year of it is from the 60s or 70s. I know that it is not much info but does anyone think they know about this rifle.. Or conpany that produced it..
    Thanks



    Perhaps? "IF" your Uncle is mistaken about the marking on the rifle,i.e. it's "Firearms International" rather then Interational Arms, we would be able to help you with the identification.

    The Firearms International Mausers were produced by F.N. in Belgium. My understanding is at least some of the early ones were made on post W W II manufactured military actions that F.N. couldn't sell, so they were converted to commerical production and sold under the "Musketeer" name. They were imported and sold in this country in the 50's & 60's.

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