Mauser 8x60S Magnum - special order with "Zielmultar" scope
MAUSER ORIGINAL OBERNDORF
Rifles
Category : C
Caliber : 8x60S Magnum
Very rare Original Mauser special order hunting rifle built in Oberndorf in 1931 on a square bridge 98' commercial action with integrated scope mount, lateral safety, German double set trigger and key locked opening floorplate magazine.
The full octagonal 24" barrel is chambered for 8x60S "Magnum" cartridge. Its rib carries a nice rear sight whose cursor runs up to the 1000 meters mark and whose the u-notched leaflet is regulated on the fine silver bead set on the front sight ramp. The bore is superb with well-defined grooves.
The 14½" LOP stock is made of nicely figured walnut, with schnabel ending short forearm, oval cheek piece, steel grip cap and dark orange Silver's buttplate.
The action is a civilian Mauser 98 'whose flat top integrates the scope mount catch. An additional lateral safety with stalking button allows the use of the scope without using the traditional flag. In the rear position it locks the bolt in the closed position as well as the internal cocking latch, freeing it from th pressures of the German double set trigger.
The bolt stop and the elongated cocking piece are also specific to this civilian version.
This rifle is equipped with a superb Zeiss "Zielmultar" scope whose magnification can be gradually increased from 1 to 6x. This massive piece of engineering, designed in Jena, Thuringia circa 1923, is, with its sister the "Zielmulti", the first true variable scope offered before WW2.
With a 1lb 12oz weight, this entirely made of steel scope requires a special mount with a screwed and welded front ring and a larger rear half-ring welded to the scope steel. The rear mount can be windage adjusted and both rings are correctly marked to the rifle serial number.
The Zeiss "Zielmultar" scope retains its original leather protection, named of the model and in perfect condition. Thus equipped, with its mounts, the whole assy weighs 2lb 1½oz.
This rifle is chambered for the "Magnum" version of the 8x60S, a cartridge identical to the traditional 8x60S but supporting 15% higher pressure giving performance equal to those of the 300H & H Magnum.
The rifle alone weighs 7lb 12oz and scoped with the Zeiss "Zielmultar" its net weight is 9lb 14oz
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