i'll show you this yugosalv rifle and take it out to shoot some steel targets. you can't go wrong a military surplus m48 yugoslavia in 8mm mauser. The partisans on Octoreoccupied the factory and found 15,000 Gew 98 barrels and other parts and began assembling rifles.After slicking up the action, giving the rifle a home made trigger job and working the front site i'm pretty happy using this rifle for get stripper clips and ammo pouch here: amzn.to 2nyiavp reviewing the yugo m48 mauser in 8mm. They felt most of the arms found were of second class. They closed the Uzice factory soon after taking it over April 15, 1941, and focused on industries related to aircraft production in other Yugoslavian factories. However the Nazis never actually produced rifles in Yugoslavia as far as I know. I have one that i bought from a forum member a few years ago and its an M48. What you do get is a new shooter grade gun.which you can use and shoot and hunt maybe (a Slovenian acquaintance of mine hunts with it in Alaska). I was in the last generation of recruits that went through this process training on an M48 and had an SKS issued to me in Basic Training for 3 months. They also were used in classrooms for demonstration and learning the gun and disassembly (we had preparatory classes for 2 years to prepare you for mandatory service) as well as going to the range and shooting them when you 'Graduate'. So although he claims this you dont have a guarantee that you ll get a 100% never fired gun as Mitchells refinishes some of them and nowadays most i believe.Īs they became obsolete with the SKS being introduced in the 50s because it was a semi and became the standard Yugo Army Rifle until 1972 (AKs started being issued) they still remained in storage and ultimately were sold to Mitchell and surplus dealers for sales in Canada,US and such.

They have no collector value as he embellishes the story behind them and he s been known to re stamp old guns and surplus guns that were used (most were in storage but some issued during the 90s Yugo Wars). I ve seen pictures of him purchasing them from the Macedonian Army depots in the early 90s when i lived over there.

Yes, The Nazis did take over the production in the 1941-1944 time periods but these guns were made after Tito`s conflict with Stalin in the 1948-1953 tim period. Many of Mitchells mausers come from Ex-Yugoslavia successor states where they were sitting in surplus National Guard armories since the early 50s. Here is a bit of information on Mitchell as i am somewhat familiar of where he s been getting them for years.

Price for a mitchell mauser k98 value