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Especially if the shooter was tough. Everything about this rifle is tough. The recoil is tough, the trigger is tough, the bolt operation is tough. This is a big, heavy combat rifle designed to take it and to dish it out with .30-06 class ballistics. I like the old pig but I have to feel like experiencing a little recoil when I go out to shoot it and be willing to manhandle the bolt and trigger in the bargain.

M48A 8X57

The Model 98 Mauser clan was represented by a Yugoslav M48A 8x57 short rifle and a pair of 1909 Argentine 7.62 x 53s, one short rifle and one long rifle. The 48A was like new inside and out and was finished almost as nicely as a new commercial Mauser.

Cheap Turkish 1938 Berdan-primed 154-grain ball, guaranteed to be corrosive by its vendor, shot into 4 MOA out to 300 yards. It all shot, though, and chronographed quite uniformly at 2970 fps with an extreme spread of 44 fps. I pulled some of the bullets and reseated a Sierra 150-grain flat base soft point instead of the original full metal jackets. I was rewarded with 2950 fps “Munich Match” that grouped into about 1-1/2 MOA all the way out to 500 yards.