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mehulkamdar
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Mauser Type S 7x57 - One More Treasure from Don S's Gun Safe
      #88880 - 13/11/07 12:14 PM

One more Mauser stunner from Don S. Thanks, Don, for sharing these pictures and we shall wait for more details.









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Re: Mauser Type S 7x57 - One More Treasure from Don S's Gun Safe [Re: mehulkamdar]
      #88883 - 13/11/07 12:20 PM

FIRST DIBS, I CALL IT!!

THAT ONE'S MINE!!!!!!!!

Wow...

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Re: Mauser Type S 7x57 - One More Treasure from Don S's Gun Safe [Re: 9.3x57]
      #88889 - 13/11/07 01:09 PM

Very nice Don,
I'm starting to think you like Original Mausers more than me.

Fred

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Re: Mauser Type S 7x57 - One More Treasure from Don S's Gun Safe [Re: mehulkamdar]
      #88890 - 13/11/07 01:11 PM

This Type S is 1941 vintage with a 4X Hensoldt scope in period mounts. It is also stamped with the GECO (Gustav Genschow) distributor logo.

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Re: Mauser Type S 7x57 - One More Treasure from Don S's Gun Safe [Re: dons]
      #88923 - 14/11/07 02:19 AM

That is my idea of a perfectly desgned pistol grip. The only thing which detracts from the perfect ergonomic design of the rifle is the period scope mount, which leaves the scope hanging in the air, due (1) to the need to clear the unaltered bolt handle (2) the need to accomodate the "see through" feature which German hunters insisted upon, and (3) the need to provide for windage adjustment in the rear mount, since the scope has provision for internal elevation adjustments only.

In this country, Noske solved the problem of low scope mounting in the early 30's by designing a scope with both windage and elevation adjustment, which had long enough eye relief to allow it to be mounted ahead of the bolt handle and a side mount which in addition to having built in windage, allowed the scope to be mounted as low as iron sights.

Griffin and Howe and Neidner used the same kind of mount, also available with windage adjustment, but tastefully altered the bolt handle to clear the ocular lens for very low mounted scopes.

The Redfield scope mount, both the Senior and Junior models, offered the possibility of iron sight level scope mounts with windage adjustment in the '30's as well, but without the reliable return to zero feature of the Noske, Neidner and G&H mounts.

Since reticles were not centered in those days, windage adjustable mounts were useful even with scopes featuring internal windage adjustments, since the scope could be roughly zeroed using the external adjustements, then fine tuned with the internal ones.

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Re: Mauser Type S 7x57 - One More Treasure from Don S's Gun Safe [Re: xausa]
      #88930 - 14/11/07 04:38 AM

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The only thing which detracts from the perfect ergonomic design of the rifle is the period scope mount, which leaves the scope hanging in the air



Xausa, all great comments except I like a high scope. I have prominent cheekbones and have had a lot of trouble over the years with guns that bite me right in the bone below the eye, and a high scope solves this, and also allows for a heads-up position for snap shooting the head being "left alone" and the rifle mounted straight up. I have a 1939-built Husky Mauser {FN-98 action} that has a higher than normal scope compounded by a reduced-height stock comb made necessary in altering the cast-off stock for left-shoulder shooting. All-in-all, i like it. It does not provide for a firm "cheek weld", it does allow a "chin-weld" which suits me fine.

I've never hunted with a rifle scoped as the 7x57 here is, but it looks like I could manage along nicely with it!!

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Re: Mauser Type S 7x57 - One More Treasure from Don S's Gun Safe [Re: 9.3x57]
      #88931 - 14/11/07 05:42 AM

I guess I'm more than sensitive to stock design because of my experience as an International Skeet shooter. As you no doubt are aware, International Skeet rules require the stock of the gun to be touching the shooter's hipbone when he calls for the target, and the gun may not be cheeked until the target is visible outside the trap house. This calls for some pretty exact gun fitting.

When I ordered my first double rifle from Krieghoff, I used the dimensions from my rather straight stocked Perazzi skeet gun, which, as it turned out, were ideal. When I bring the rifle to my shoulder, I am looking down the sights at the target, without a conscious effort on my part to align them. That applies as well for scope sights as for irons.

If you regard the scope as an auxiliary sight for longer ranges, which is I'm sure the Germans regarded and to some extent still regard optical sights, then gun fit and scope height are unimportant, but for me one of the biggest thrills of the hunt is responding to the unexpected opportunity with an instinctive shot.

The Mauser in question is a perfectly designed iron sighted snap shooting gun. If I planned hunting with it with the scope safely ensconced in its leather case until the opportunity for a long shot arose, then nothing could be finer, and I could accomodate myself to the stock design at leisure. That's not the way I like to hunt, however. To each his own.

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