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And yes, I have seen a rather sheepish M03 owner standing with the bolt of his rifle in his right hand ..... I'm good friends with a colleague of his, who owns an identical M03, also in .404, also with the same symptoms.

I'm reliably informed that some of them will discharge by their own accord as well if the bolt is closed REALLY hard on a loaded round. This I haven't seen with my own eyes, just for the record.

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Wow. Two big problems for the same model. Amazing.

Well I actually OWN and USE two of them and have never experienced either of these "third hand" problems.

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Probably old ''News'' ,but I only just found out the M03 has been discontinued ,maybe not selling enough ? or getting too expensive to produce ?, or both maybe .They will concentrate on the cheaper Models and keep the much more expensive M98s ,hmmmm ........ ith ought they were good myself, but had to sell mine .

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Damnation. But one could see this writing on the wall after the L&O group severely downgraded the choices and range of models, barrels, calibres, etc available for the M03.

They seem to be making the Mauser a economy brand, rather than what it should be, a premium brand. Selling M98s still but mostly cheaper model new Mausers.

Pushing the Blaser brand instead, a plastic fantastic brand, glitz and little style.

Meanwhile L&O is closing a German factory for handguns.

Something is wrong with firearms in Europe. Probably the fashion to buy over complicated finicky rubbish.

At least Rigby under Marc Newton is streaming ahead and keeping up the brand and quality.

Got straight onto OSA to see about a warranty repair on my M03 .222 Magazine, and also any mounts, bolt heads, even barrels still available. Possibly only barrels. Not sure if I could afford one ATM.

But this sums up an issue. Buy and use M98s and you will always still be able to get mounts, barrels etc. And have a great rifle design to boot.

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If I wanted a non switch barrel single calibre rifle, I wouldn't bother with a M12, M18 or whatever and why bother going past a Mauser M98 or a Mauser derivative action.

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Another plus of take downs is you don't get all the ''Looks'' at Airports when you are carrying a Long gun case ,although most of todays generation wouldn't know anyway ,but elderly women always seem to know what you are carrying, if you have a long gun case !

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have been known to put my full length rifle gun case across the top of my wheeled duffel bag a bit like airplane wings to manoeuvre through the crowds in the airports.

I wonder how many people know what is in it.

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Most people would think it is a guitar which are often carried in exactly the same type of case.

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Why not! There was a band years ago called "Nitro Express". They wanted the domain name from me.

Also carbon arrows.

Mark Sullivan of course.

A leather luggage maker in NZ.

And the petrol ether heads with injected engines and drag racing.

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And yes, I have seen a rather sheepish M03 owner standing with the bolt of his rifle in his right hand ..... I'm good friends with a colleague of his, who owns an identical M03, also in .404, also with the same symptoms.

I'm reliably informed that some of them will discharge by their own accord as well if the bolt is closed REALLY hard on a loaded round. This I haven't seen with my own eyes, just for the record.

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Wow. Two big problems for the same model. Amazing.

Well I actually OWN and USE two of them and have never experienced either of these "third hand" problems.

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I gave this a try and could not create either problem. Also have used my M03 with .404 in BGRC rapid fire events. Neither problem ever occurred.

Some of these courses are attended by complete wannabes. Never know how they handle their firearms, if they are ever used them before or how they have not been maintained ....

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These rifles are extremely accurate ( precise) and the design actually predates that of Mauser's famous 98 ! The concept of bolting to the barrel and not the front ring of the action is the crux and secret to this accuracy. The action body and bolt body are simply conduits for feeding from the magazine. By bolting to the barrel steps in the mechanical oscillation and vibration train is negated. The principle was conceived by Louis Schlegelmilch prior to his design of the M88 Commission rifle action. Walther Gehman perfected it with the M66 Mauser action.

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