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ErikD - What is the brand of your Mauser 98 .375 H&H?
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John,
It is one of the original 100 375H&H Magnum Mausers made for Mauser in 1998 by Gottfried Pretchl for the Mauser 100 year anniverary. 100 were also made in 416Rigby. This was before Sigarms came along aoon after and bought the Mauser name. For some reason unknown to me, Sigarms/Mauser made a new run of 100 each in the same caliburs. I believe their actions are also from Pretchl/Golmatic.
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While at Chewore North in 2005 another hunter in camp had a Mauser in 416, this was a nice rifle.
Mauser has a web site which has great info on the new 98 and 03.
The MOD 03 is a great option for someone who likes the features of a Blaser 93 but prefers a more standared rifle.
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Doesn't the Mauser model 03 have a rather awkward safety/decocker on the back of the bolt. Which some have claimed is quite hard to take off or re-cock?
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Doesn't the Mauser model 03 have a rather awkward safety/decocker on the back of the bolt. Which some have claimed is quite hard to take off or re-cock?
John,
I've handled the M03 a dozen or so times now in various gunshops (although I haven't shot one yet), and have a hard time understanding what the "problem" is with the cocking lever. I have had no trouble cocking or de-cocking them, and have not gotten my thumb squeezed as I have read some people feel they have. Even my wife had no problems using the decocker. However, I have heard that some of the early rifles made may have had a harder spring.
Although it took a few seconds to get the hang of the decocker, I think this system would be great in a PG rifle, and wouldn't mind buying one myself when they come out with a synthetic stock (which they claim will be happening shortly). I would certainly much prefer an M03 compaired to a Blaser R93 (which I have once owned, but later sold). The M03 feels and looks more like a rifle should, compaired to the Blaser. But this is of course a matter of personal taste. I'd also rather hunt DG with a M03 than a Blaser R93 if I had to choose, due to the M03's more conventional bolt.
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Doesn't the Mauser model 03 have a rather awkward safety/decocker on the back of the bolt. Which some have claimed is quite hard to take off or re-cock?
John,
I've handled the M03 a dozen or so times now in various gunshops (although I haven't shot one yet), and have a hard time understanding what the "problem" is with the cocking lever. I have had no trouble cocking or de-cocking them, and have not gotten my thumb squeezed as I have read some people feel they have. Even my wife had no problems using the decocker. However, I have heard that some of the early rifles made may have had a harder spring.
Although it took a few seconds to get the hang of the decocker, I think this system would be great in a PG rifle, and wouldn't mind buying one myself when they come out with a synthetic stock (which they claim will be happening shortly). I would certainly much prefer an M03 compaired to a Blaser R93 (which I have once owned, but later sold). The M03 feels and looks more like a rifle should, compaired to the Blaser. But this is of course a matter of personal taste. I'd also rather hunt DG with a M03 than a Blaser R93 if I had to choose, due to the M03's more conventional bolt.
Erik
I agree with Erik. I like the (serious) look of the MO3, fairly classical. But it's a meccanolike proposition like most of the SigSauer rifles (choose a stock, the engraving of the action, the detachable barrel,........let alone the Blaser 12 gauge whose option are incredible and laughable).
The cocking-decocking catcher is present on more and more new rifles. Even the sister company Sauer succumbs to this trend : the new auto Sauer 303 exhibits this device.
This device was firstly the norm on the fine single-shot hinged-action rifles (Kipplauf) from Suhl, Merkel, Simson....it then appears on the dubious Blasers and now could tend to be the norm in Eastern Europe.
The origin of this trend is not only a new gadget for better marketing. In Europe, the hunters are very concerned by safety, especially the younger ones. This device is a bonus in offering to cock at the very last time prior to shooting.
But it's quite a few more moving parts impairing the action in harsh country. Not the sort of gizmo welcomed in the back of the neck of Africa.
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What are the other similarities between the R95 and M03 besides the decocker?
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Bulldog,
Both can easily switch barrels by unscrewing 2 screws from under the barrels, and both have their own special quick detachable scope mounts. And then there is the cocker/decocker. Besides that, their isn't any other similarity that I can think of. The Mauser M03 looks and feels much more like a "real" rifle to me than the straight-pull Blaser R93.
Here's the M03 website: Mauser M03
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Thanks Erik
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ErikD
I saw one of these 100 year anniversary rifles in 9.3x64in a shop in Windhoek. The guy there said they made 100 in 375 and 100 in 9.3x64. Very nice. FYI they wanted $16,000 (US) for it....so if you got yours for less your probably made a deal.
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404jeffery,
I'd think this can't be the same gun, as I know for sure that 100 were made in only 375H&H and 416 Rigby. 
Could it be that it originally was a 100 year version that they might have switched barrels to 9,3x64?
Either way, I got off with paying a 4th of the price you mention! Are you sure the price wasn't in Namibian Dollars/Rand?
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I handled a Mauser 03 and the cocking thing nearly bit my thumb off. The spring was only slightly weaker than the springs on my truck. 
Edited by 500grains (10/01/07 01:33 AM)
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Dan,
Could this have been one of the first M03s? It might be that they had a harder spring compaired to the more recent ones. Have a try with a new one, and see if it's different if you get a chance.
Or maybe you just have a weaker thumb than a 5 ft 4 inch tall woman! 
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Typo above, meant to write 'handled' not 'had'.
Perhaps they have put in a weaker spring or perhaps they improved the cocking mechanism in more recent production, and I will try one out when there is a chance.
Krieghoff improved their cocking mechanism and it is much easier to operate now than it was originally.
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Erik, Can you post pictures of your mauser?
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Bulldog,
I'll see if I can dig up some, or if not, take a few new ones. It's nothing flashy. Just a plain working gun built on a magnum mauser action.
Erik
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I have seen one of the rifles before in the 416 and the 375 Magnum before, and they were working guns, but good made rifles that will be good t ouse on hunting and shooting here and there.
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They were also made in to 9,3x62, I shot my hunting parterns rifle just the other week
It´s a good rifle.
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Erik, Can you post pictures of your mauser?
Here you go Bulldog. This gun has been altered a bit compared to what it started out as. It now has a 2 position M70 style safety, the bolthandle is longer (and obviously checkered), I had an ERA swingmount cut into the square bridges, and an ERA trigger. Due to having been used a lot since I bought it, I had it re-blued last summer. As function (and in this case weather protection) is what's most important to me, I had them blue the bolt too.
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Wonderfull rifle Erik, is it Ragnar Hansen who has done the work for you there?
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EricD
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No. Gottfried Prechtl did the alterations.
Although Hansen re-blued it last summer (and did a mediocre job by the way...).
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