Great vid bud- very thorough explanation of the elm & stock construction of the m48 Mauser rifle , one of my most favorite Mausers in my collection! Keep up the great work! Thank you 😀
Elm was also used for axels and hubs for carriages and heavy wagons. Keep the hubs smeared with bear grease and they last forever. Love my M48. Stock is made of dark heartwood. Looks like black walnut.
Thank you for all the research you did on the wood the M48 stock is made of - now I have a better understanding of why the upper handguard of my Yugo Mauser is a different colour from the rest of the stock :)
My M48 is a BO, interesting variant. Mine is mint, un-issued condition. These are very fine rifles. Mine is blessed with a smooth straight grain, no splinters. This is a very good video on the rifle, thank-you!
I got a M48 from Aim Surplus so i was watching your video and holding my rifle comparing and saw your ser# was 97932 and mine is 97935.Our Rifles were pretty close together at one time.Funny! Realy enjoy your channel.
Elm! 🎉 Your videos are awesome! I see I put my sling on upside down, apparently. 🥴 Just picked up a super-clean, factory fresh, M48 with beautiful milled raceways.?Thank you Mitchell Mauser’s. (Takes cover) Still not as silky smooth as a K98k but doable for targets and my biggame critters. Will it get silky over more time than I got? I see why you wanted to shave the front sight a smidge. I ordered one to attempt the same. I want minute of soda can at 100 yards.
Great video. I recently bought one of Martin's M48s and struggled through the plethora of Yugo Mauser videos and postings on the wood of the stocks etc. Thanks for this great video. You clearly know your stuff. I lightly sanded mine as well and used BLO on it. Now, to smooth out those tool marks. Cheers
I also got my mint M48 from Martin at Corwin Arms. The stock was from rift sawn blank and still had the penciled serial number for the person to stamp in. The rift blank makes the stock very smooth without any blowouts. The bolt is very smooth and receiver had none of the rough milling I have seen on the net, must have lucked out. Now, for rough bolt manipulation my Spanish FR8 is top of the list.
A great video on the stock wood. The wood on a stock will sell me a rifle quicker than anything else. Concerning the use of elm by the Yugoslavs, walnut was preferred but it simply became too hard to find in suitable quality and quantity and became too costly to use. A few points. As it happens, that book you referred to is by my friend Branko Bogdanovic and I helped proofread it. Now, the roughness you pointed out on that bolt is not typical of the whole series M48. The bolt on M48B is considerably better. What you have there is a 1st model M48- all milled. It was made 1950-52. (1948 began the design part of the rifle. It did not enter production until 1950). Those first rifles were made by an amateur workforce. Besides workers caught up in the fighting of WWII, before evacuating Yugoslavia the Nazis hauled off or executed every skilled worker they could lay hands on. The war left their arms industry, especially in ruins. It was 5 years after the war before the Yugoslavs rebuilt enough to attempt to manufacture a whole rifle from scratch. The other problem was skilled labor and only time can create that. As a retired machinist, I can tell you it takes from 2 - 5 years to produce a machine operator or machinist to consistently produce well-made parts. The first model is often plagued by what many collectors/shooters refer to as "sticky bolt syndrome" caused by or the result of such things as you just showed. The solution you suggested is about the simplest and most reliable, and least likely to damage for those lacking the neccessary skills to do machine work on firearms. By the way, the M48A you mentioned having- was probably an M48B. The Yugoslavs continued to mark rifles made after 1952 as M48A but the was an extensive modification to the rifles in 1956 marking the beginning of the M48B and the M48bo as a dedicated production model. The only modification to the M48A was the inclusion of a stamped magazine floor plate. I'd say that's enough for now. Thanks for the video!
Thank you. Here's another little tidbit for you; The crest shown at about 14:34 is incorrect for your subject matter. That is the 6 torch crest adopted in 1963 and too late for inclusion on these rifles. The Mauser rifles in Yugoslav service should all have the 5 torch crest. It might do well to point out that the "1943" represents when Tito established his 'government' and had nothing to do with when the object bearing the crest was made. Same goes for the PREDUZECE stamp used. that mere stood for institution or factory 44- Zastava at Kragujevac. Too many sellers on-line try to pass off Yugoslav stuff as WWII German make based upon that.
I have a Yugo SKS and yes, it was completely caked in cosmoline. I used my oven to heat it up, wipe it down, heat it up, etc (obviously at the lowest setting and 10 minutes at a time). I still need to smooth the stock out. -Jen
I just subscribed to your channel sir! Thank you for this video on the M-48. I own one as well, and I learned more from this than any other I have seen. 👍🏻
Rifle Chair. Thank you sir for another good UA-cam video. Yes I am seeing this three years after you posted it and yes I have an M48A according to the stamping on the receiver ring. This one is a bit of an anomaly as both the magazine floorplate and the trigger guard are obviously milled and not stamped. The rifle was one from the "infamous" Mitchells Mausers" here in the states and was sold as an unissued collector grade piece. Now being aware of some of the controversy surrounding this company I'll go no further except to say that the barrel and receiver show no signs of having been "re-blued" over a pitted surface, same with the rest of the hardware. The bore and chamber are pristine with sharp well defined rifling. It does not seem a cleaned up but well worn rifle. the receiver and barrel carry the same serial numbers as does the bolt with what seems to be a June 62 6/62 date stamp on the external portion of the chamber. I have this old girl dismantled currently and am working on polishing the wood furniture starting with 800 grit paper working down to 1500 with VERY light coats of boiled Linseed Oil rubbed in with each sanding. The only markings on the stock are the "matching serial number" no factory or armorers stamps evident any where (which again calls into question Mitchells claim). I am not of course too concerned with that as the rifle is intended as a shooter. Yes I am following your advice as to polishing the bolt raceways and the bolt itself will be sent off to a gentleman in Texas who will break it down and give it a total polishing external and firing pin/striker and the spring as well. Well as this post has taken on the proportions of an essay I'll close. RC I've not seen any recent posts so, I trust that you are well. Enjoy reading when you post. All the best to you.
Hi TopTG Thanks for your post. I don't have any issues with Mitchell's Mausers. Marstar Canada was the source for almost all of these M48's and then MM slicked them up. I actually admire them to a certain extent for maximizing their returns on these rifles. Glad the video had some value to you. CHEERS! Richard
Great video. Very informative content on the elm trees. Yes rough action, I had to go over mine as well. Fortunately, I also am an honor graduate in trade school for machining so I already know what I'm doing. lol Definitely worth buying no matter where you live. I'm 91571 here in the US and she runs very well and I keep her on a high maintenance schedule. It gets cleaned every time she sends rounds downrange. Keep up the good videos.
This video was made at the height of our dark northern winters. The lighting sucked and I was freezing outside in my greenhouse in front of a green screen. When I watch it I feel cold... Weird eh?
I completely agree on the machining and don’t see people talk about it. When compared to my yugo captured k98k, it’s not as smooth and is a smidge harder to work. Definitely not as refined as German machining which is easy and smooth as butter. Still a Mauser action and is great nonetheless. Great video
Great vid!! I have an M24/47 with a older dark stock (looks like walnut) and just purchased a nice M24-52c (VZ-24 Yugo Refurb.) Planning on just cleaning the M24-52c stock and applying BLO (boiled linseed oil). Want to keep all dings, dents and stock markings,
Happy to have a walnut stocked M48A, as I genuinely dislike elm - had elm stocked Swedish M96's (Swedes only used it in specific years - 1915,16 and 17 - and even 2 elm K98s - yes, the Germans DID use elm sporadically on the K98 from about 1942 through 1944 [mainly Oberndorf and some Erma produced replacement stocks] - not many, but enough (and no, I am NOT confusing it with laminated beech). Here is one specific exmple of an elm K98 : www.icollector.com/World-War-II-K98-Mauser-High-Turret-Style-Sniper-Rifle-Fitted-with-a-Carl-Zeiss-Scope-and-Rare-Elm-S_i15826895 (in fact, many Low Turret K98 snipers seem to be elm stoked looking at images) Swede use of elm: dutchman.rebooty.com/elm.html When I saw my M48A was walnut, i was very pleased. A roughened face after shooting the Swede stocked in elm was enough to dislike elm for life. NEVER rub your hand over elm - you'll almost always regret it :)
Maybe you've addressed this is a different video but how did you whiten the markings on this rifle. Paint and a fine brush? It really looks good on a rifle like this. Thanks
That is a very nice looking stock! I hope I can find one like it someday, but these things are harder and harder to come by and the conditions you find them in are getting worse and worse...
Thanks for the great informative videos. I was told the wood was tesk but i really didn't think it was. Just picked thid gun up s couple months ago smd it quickly became one of my favorites. I do have a question for you. I also pricked up a very nice yugo. M24/47 s year or so ago. Love the rifle but it has one thing wrong with it. Someone removed the top half of the rear sight and replaced it with a rail for s scope. My question is could you recommend somewhere i could find a replacement sight do i could get it bsck to original. I would also like to find an original sling and cleaning rod for it. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Atb. Robert.
I need an M48 in my life...just look at that wood. Good Lord it's pretty. Looks like the tiger stripe patter in the Mosin M39 stocks. I wonder if I could find an M48 Yugo Mauser in Australia? Let the hunt begin.
I have one with no marks, doulbe-set-triggers 0.323 dia. 8x57 It has a pencil thin pistol grip, that broke a couple times and a good smith built thick brass plates that from the grip up to the far side of the magazine box. 30 years ago, I epoxied it back together, this time I will J-B it together. Dutch elm has destroyed the forests of old cities like Fredericton.
So, been refinishing my M48A, and it appears to be laminated. I was hoping to have a beautiful solid wood stock like the one Riflechair is sporting here, but oh well. Anyway, after watching Forgotten Weapons’ video on the M48, I discovered that the M48 “B” isn’t marked as such. The A stamp remained, while adding the stamped trigger guard and magazine assembly of the B. That makes mine an M48B. This causes me to theorize, that in later versions, as their manufacturing processes were refined, they made the stocks using laminate.
Riflechair, after posting this, I gave it another look as my first application of boiled linseed oil has dried, it’s solid. What I thought were laminate lines turned out to be nearly parallel grain lines. The toe of the stock is the darker heartwood.
TEAKWOOD would never be able to withstand the abuse a rifle gets in the field it would be in pieces within a week its great for boats and decks because of its oils its not a very strong or hard wood. ELMWOODON on the other hand is a great wood for a stock because it is a hardwood that has many characteristics of oak like the grain the density and strength of oak makes perfect sense to use elm especially if you have forests full of it. Like the Germans and others did with black walnut. OH by the way great video bro
Sir i want to buy mauser rifle yogo m48 or vz24 berno whech one should I buy they both are in same price $400 to 500 m48 are more cleaner and newer I already have swedish m38 and Turkish 1893/38
Rifle chair you kinda do look like person from the Guelph area no offense intended, great rifle, the M48 is the last rifle I need/ want to finish my Yugo collection. My three spheres of collection is swede, Swiss and Jugoslvi
That was from ad copy by Mitchell's Mausers. There was a Yugoslav rifle stocked in teak- An African nation placed an order with Yugoslavia for sks but wanted them stocked in teak. They supplied the necessary wood to the Yugoslavs for that order and that was the end of that. Mitchell's early ad copy was so filled with falsehoods that they really should have been busted for it. They have very much cleaned up the BS for them but they made their haul from it. They were also drastically over charging for them. Up to $300+ for one at a time they were being sold all over the web for $79. Same grade and accessories too. Enough anti-Mitchell's rant.
The M48 is a great rifle, it's only problem in my eyes (literally) is the sights. Too hard to see. Had they adopted a peep sight like the 03 Springfield or even the Russian 91/30 type sights I think they might have approached perfection. Though they aren't the smoothest rifle to operate.
The stocks of the 24/47 and M448 are interchangeable as the actions are the same though the bolts are different. Going from an M48 to a 24/47 will not pose any problems. But, if taking an M48 to a 24/47 stock, you might have to cut a bolt arm relief. Be advised! The 24/52C is an entirely different critter. Rendered from a Czech vz24, it's standard length action will not fit in either an M48 or 24/47 stocks.
@Riflechair Thank you, I suspected this after looking at a bunch of stuff online and reading that this is one of only two species of elm in Serbia. I want to make some gun stocks from field elm blanks but I’m not sure if I’ll be able to find any in the US...
I don't know much about carpentry and types of woods but I'm almost 100% sure it is not teak. And it is from purely economical and practical. reasons. What people need to know Yugoslavia after WW2 was very poor country. Devastated by war and mostly rural. Does anybody really think in those conditions somebody would pick exotic and expensive type of wood for mass produced military equipment?
Finally..... Correct.... Elm...... how/why the "teak" urban myth started is beyond me. Just think of this little tidbit.....how much teak is found or grown in Yugoslavia or nearby?..... none !!
I like to shoot and to work on my guns, to make them smoother. I like the original but some times from abuse or neglect you couldn't hit a trash can at 10 yards. I've had 2 of these so called shot out barrels, well they weren't shot out they were shot with surplus corrosive ammo and not cleaned, there ain't no fixen em, the only thing to do was to rebarrel 1 with an Israel 7.62x51, real nice shooter and the other a K98 7.9x57 also nice shooter both without the safety breach, but they work fine. There is homes for the missfits that people discard, look for them to. GOD BLESS TRUMP! GOD BLESS AMERICA!! GLORY BE TO GOD!!!
Great vid bud- very thorough explanation of the elm & stock construction of the m48 Mauser rifle , one of my most favorite Mausers in my collection! Keep up the great work! Thank you 😀
Elm was also used for axels and hubs for carriages and heavy wagons. Keep the hubs smeared with bear grease and they last forever. Love my M48. Stock is made of dark heartwood. Looks like black walnut.
Wow, you spent more than 15 minutes just talking about the wood on the rifle..........and I loved it :)
Thank you for all the research you did on the wood the M48 stock is made of - now I have a better understanding of why the upper handguard of my Yugo Mauser is a different colour from the rest of the stock :)
My M48 is a BO, interesting variant. Mine is mint, un-issued condition. These are very fine rifles. Mine is blessed with a smooth straight grain, no splinters.
This is a very good video on the rifle, thank-you!
RC...love your channel by the way. I'm a mill surp collecter and have learnt much from you. Thanks mate.
I got a M48 from Aim Surplus so i was watching your video and holding my rifle comparing and saw your ser# was 97932 and mine is 97935.Our Rifles were pretty close together at one time.Funny! Realy enjoy your channel.
Elm! 🎉 Your videos are awesome! I see I put my sling on upside down, apparently. 🥴 Just picked up a super-clean, factory fresh, M48 with beautiful milled raceways.?Thank you Mitchell Mauser’s. (Takes cover) Still not as silky smooth as a K98k but doable for targets and my biggame critters. Will it get silky over more time than I got? I see why you wanted to shave the front sight a smidge. I ordered one to attempt the same. I want minute of soda can at 100 yards.
Great video. I recently bought one of Martin's M48s and struggled through the plethora of Yugo Mauser videos and postings on the wood of the stocks etc. Thanks for this great video. You clearly know your stuff. I lightly sanded mine as well and used BLO on it. Now, to smooth out those tool marks. Cheers
Thanks for the Vid! I think They are cool shorter action lot of cool option! in the Mauser's
Great video Riflechair. I'll be trying this out on my M50 Belgian Mauser in 30-06. You've got yourself a new subscriber.
Greetings from Australia!
I also got my mint M48 from Martin at Corwin Arms. The stock was from rift sawn blank and still had the penciled serial number for the person to stamp in. The rift blank makes the stock very smooth without any blowouts. The bolt is very smooth and receiver had none of the rough milling I have seen on the net, must have lucked out. Now, for rough bolt manipulation my Spanish FR8 is top of the list.
Thanks for this video. I have an 48bo I picked up from Frontier in 2011 I believe. Love shooting it.
A great video on the stock wood. The wood on a stock will sell me a rifle quicker than anything else. Concerning the use of elm by the Yugoslavs, walnut was preferred but it simply became too hard to find in suitable quality and quantity and became too costly to use.
A few points. As it happens, that book you referred to is by my friend Branko Bogdanovic and I helped proofread it.
Now, the roughness you pointed out on that bolt is not typical of the whole series M48. The bolt on M48B is considerably better. What you have there is a 1st model M48- all milled. It was made 1950-52. (1948 began the design part of the rifle. It did not enter production until 1950). Those first rifles were made by an amateur workforce. Besides workers caught up in the fighting of WWII, before evacuating Yugoslavia the Nazis hauled off or executed every skilled worker they could lay hands on. The war left their arms industry, especially in ruins. It was 5 years after the war before the Yugoslavs rebuilt enough to attempt to manufacture a whole rifle from scratch. The other problem was skilled labor and only time can create that. As a retired machinist, I can tell you it takes from 2 - 5 years to produce a machine operator or machinist to consistently produce well-made parts.
The first model is often plagued by what many collectors/shooters refer to as "sticky bolt syndrome" caused by or the result of such things as you just showed. The solution you suggested is about the simplest and most reliable, and least likely to damage for those lacking the neccessary skills to do machine work on firearms.
By the way, the M48A you mentioned having- was probably an M48B. The Yugoslavs continued to mark rifles made after 1952 as M48A but the was an extensive modification to the rifles in 1956 marking the beginning of the M48B and the M48bo as a dedicated production model. The only modification to the M48A was the inclusion of a stamped magazine floor plate.
I'd say that's enough for now.
Thanks for the video!
This post was extremely helpful. Thank you very much sir for chiming in. I hope to see more posts from you in the future. Cheers, thank you and MLU!
Thank you. Here's another little tidbit for you; The crest shown at about 14:34 is incorrect for your subject matter. That is the 6 torch crest adopted in 1963 and too late for inclusion on these rifles. The Mauser rifles in Yugoslav service should all have the 5 torch crest.
It might do well to point out that the "1943" represents when Tito established his 'government' and had nothing to do with when the object bearing the crest was made. Same goes for the PREDUZECE stamp used. that mere stood for institution or factory 44- Zastava at Kragujevac. Too many sellers on-line try to pass off Yugoslav stuff as WWII German make based upon that.
I have a Yugo SKS and yes, it was completely caked in cosmoline. I used my oven to heat it up, wipe it down, heat it up, etc (obviously at the lowest setting and 10 minutes at a time). I still need to smooth the stock out.
-Jen
Great Review, I have a Yugoslavia 24 47. I love the Rifle, very rugged well made Rifle. God Bless You Sir
that is the best wood graining on a m48 i have ever seen!
I just subscribed to your channel sir! Thank you for this video on the M-48. I own one as well, and I learned more from this than any other I have seen. 👍🏻
I love the smell of cosmoline in the morning
Good info and I will get my M48 to run like I did my Mosin Nagant thanks for your post.
Rifle Chair. Thank you sir for another good UA-cam video. Yes I am seeing this three years after you posted it and yes I have an M48A according to the stamping on the receiver ring. This one is a bit of an anomaly as both the magazine floorplate and the trigger guard are obviously milled and not stamped. The rifle was one from the "infamous" Mitchells Mausers" here in the states and was sold as an unissued collector grade piece. Now being aware of some of the controversy surrounding this company I'll go no further except to say that the barrel and receiver show no signs of having been "re-blued" over a pitted surface, same with the rest of the hardware. The bore and chamber are pristine with sharp well defined rifling. It does not seem a cleaned up but well worn rifle. the receiver and barrel carry the same serial numbers as does the bolt with what seems to be a June 62 6/62 date stamp on the external portion of the chamber. I have this old girl dismantled currently and am working on polishing the wood furniture starting with 800 grit paper working down to 1500 with VERY light coats of boiled Linseed Oil rubbed in with each sanding. The only markings on the stock are the "matching serial number" no factory or armorers stamps evident any where (which again calls into question Mitchells claim). I am not of course too concerned with that as the rifle is intended as a shooter. Yes I am following your advice as to polishing the bolt raceways and the bolt itself will be sent off to a gentleman in Texas who will break it down and give it a total polishing external and firing pin/striker and the spring as well. Well as this post has taken on the proportions of an essay I'll close. RC I've not seen any recent posts so, I trust that you are well. Enjoy reading when you post. All the best to you.
Hi TopTG
Thanks for your post. I don't have any issues with Mitchell's Mausers. Marstar Canada was the source for almost all of these M48's and then MM slicked them up. I actually admire them to a certain extent for maximizing their returns on these rifles. Glad the video had some value to you. CHEERS! Richard
Great video. Very informative content on the elm trees. Yes rough action, I had to go over mine as well. Fortunately, I also am an honor graduate in trade school for machining so I already know what I'm doing. lol Definitely worth buying no matter where you live. I'm 91571 here in the US and she runs very well and I keep her on a high maintenance schedule. It gets cleaned every time she sends rounds downrange. Keep up the good videos.
This video was made at the height of our dark northern winters. The lighting sucked and I was freezing outside in my greenhouse in front of a green screen. When I watch it I feel cold... Weird eh?
Thank you for setting me right on the wood used.
Good video. Are the K98 German Mausers laminate? I've always heard that they were laminate but they look a lot like that Elm. Thanks
Great video, first time watching you. Thanks for the info.
Awesome picture of the scouts. Our oath was a bit different in the states. We didn't have the "queen" in there 😂
I completely agree on the machining and don’t see people talk about it. When compared to my yugo captured k98k, it’s not as smooth and is a smidge harder to work. Definitely not as refined as German machining which is easy and smooth as butter. Still a Mauser action and is great nonetheless. Great video
A unique video for a unique rifle. Good learning experience.
Beatiful 👍
Great vid!! I have an M24/47 with a older dark stock (looks like walnut) and just purchased a nice M24-52c (VZ-24 Yugo Refurb.) Planning on just cleaning the M24-52c stock and applying BLO (boiled linseed oil). Want to keep all dings, dents and stock markings,
Happy to have a walnut stocked M48A, as I genuinely dislike elm - had elm stocked Swedish M96's (Swedes only used it in specific years - 1915,16 and 17 - and even 2 elm K98s - yes, the Germans DID use elm sporadically on the K98 from about 1942 through 1944 [mainly Oberndorf and some Erma produced replacement stocks] - not many, but enough (and no, I am NOT confusing it with laminated beech). Here is one specific exmple of an elm K98 : www.icollector.com/World-War-II-K98-Mauser-High-Turret-Style-Sniper-Rifle-Fitted-with-a-Carl-Zeiss-Scope-and-Rare-Elm-S_i15826895 (in fact, many Low Turret K98 snipers seem to be elm stoked looking at images)
Swede use of elm: dutchman.rebooty.com/elm.html
When I saw my M48A was walnut, i was very pleased. A roughened face after shooting the Swede stocked in elm was enough to dislike elm for life. NEVER rub your hand over elm - you'll almost always regret it :)
my M48 has a pretty smooth bolt. The stock however has some splintering like you have talked about.
nice mauser indeed.
Corwin Arms seems to be doing it right. They got another shipment of these last week, and I dont think they lasted 24 hours.
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That stock looks fantastic
Yeah man - I totally agree.
Maybe you've addressed this is a different video but how did you whiten the markings on this rifle. Paint and a fine brush? It really looks good on a rifle like this. Thanks
That is a very nice looking stock! I hope I can find one like it someday, but these things are harder and harder to come by and the conditions you find them in are getting worse and worse...
Thanks for the great informative videos.
I was told the wood was tesk but i really didn't think it was.
Just picked thid gun up s couple months ago smd it quickly became one of my favorites.
I do have a question for you.
I also pricked up a very nice yugo. M24/47 s year or so ago.
Love the rifle but it has one thing wrong with it. Someone removed the top half of the rear sight and replaced it with a rail for s scope. My question is could you recommend somewhere i could find a replacement sight do i could get it bsck to original. I would also like to find an original sling and cleaning rod for it. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Atb. Robert.
A German 98K original is the best 98K Tennessee
Wow you def have a lot of yugo m48 Mausers, I just bought one and vz24 in 7mm!
I need an M48 in my life...just look at that wood. Good Lord it's pretty. Looks like the tiger stripe patter in the Mosin M39 stocks. I wonder if I could find an M48 Yugo Mauser in Australia? Let the hunt begin.
Next on my purchase list! I just got Spanish Mauser m43 😀
I have one with no marks, doulbe-set-triggers 0.323 dia. 8x57 It has a pencil thin pistol grip, that broke a couple times and a good smith built thick brass plates that from the grip up to the far side of the magazine box. 30 years ago, I epoxied it back together, this time I will J-B it together.
Dutch elm has destroyed the forests of old cities like Fredericton.
So, been refinishing my M48A, and it appears to be laminated. I was hoping to have a beautiful solid wood stock like the one Riflechair is sporting here, but oh well.
Anyway, after watching Forgotten Weapons’ video on the M48, I discovered that the M48 “B” isn’t marked as such. The A stamp remained, while adding the stamped trigger guard and magazine assembly of the B. That makes mine an M48B. This causes me to theorize, that in later versions, as their manufacturing processes were refined, they made the stocks using laminate.
That is a sold wood stock!
Riflechair, after posting this, I gave it another look as my first application of boiled linseed oil has dried, it’s solid. What I thought were laminate lines turned out to be nearly parallel grain lines. The toe of the stock is the darker heartwood.
TEAKWOOD would never be able to withstand the abuse a rifle gets in the field it would be in pieces within a week its great for boats and decks because of its oils its not a very strong or hard wood. ELMWOODON on the other hand is a great wood for a stock because it is a hardwood that has many characteristics of oak like the grain the density and strength of oak makes perfect sense to use elm especially if you have forests full of it. Like the Germans and others did with black walnut. OH by the way great video bro
Sir i want to buy mauser rifle yogo m48 or vz24 berno whech one should I buy they both are in same price $400 to 500 m48 are more cleaner and newer
I already have swedish m38 and Turkish 1893/38
Nice rifle,I have the M48BO version with a zrak scope on it they are nice
Do Canadians seem a little odd?
The odder the better. Nerdy is interesting.
Yes they do and this dork personifies that oddity : )
Rifle chair you kinda do look like person from the Guelph area no offense intended, great rifle, the M48 is the last rifle I need/ want to finish my Yugo collection. My three spheres of collection is swede, Swiss and Jugoslvi
What about m24/47 stocks? Where can I find those and is there any difference?
Teak and Beach wood? I heard?
I wish I could find one that nice in the states for under $1000!
Could the same go for the Zastava M59/66A1 stocks?
Yes absolutely - I have seen many of these rifles also fitted with the same species.
I have to say that your interpretation of laminated wood is different from any I ever heard before?
I'd agree with you but then we would both be wrong
OMG his jacket talked more than he did.
I don’t know what I was thinking when I made this video.
Ordered one yesterday from Corwin Arms......
Still several left probably youre last chance to get one under 500 dollar
Are M48 cupped buttplates interchangeable with one from a K98?
But does it take glock mags?
Brother Blacksmith yes it can accept Glock mags
Riflechair LOL!
Even triangular drum?
Neat history about elm trees, I often wondered why people claimed these were stocked with a tropical tree!
That was from ad copy by Mitchell's Mausers. There was a Yugoslav rifle stocked in teak- An African nation placed an order with Yugoslavia for sks but wanted them stocked in teak. They supplied the necessary wood to the Yugoslavs for that order and that was the end of that. Mitchell's early ad copy was so filled with falsehoods that they really should have been busted for it. They have very much cleaned up the BS for them but they made their haul from it. They were also drastically over charging for them. Up to $300+ for one at a time they were being sold all over the web for $79. Same grade and accessories too.
Enough anti-Mitchell's rant.
That was dreamed up by Mitchell's Mausers!
to be exact there's 5,830 videos on it and I've probably watched every one of them xD
Despite the remonstrations of one's favorite female, it is my contention that one cannot have too many Mausers, unless swimming.
slowhand11 I'd swim with a Mauser because those sharks - you never know.
Yes, but I'd stick to a single Mauser then. Well, maybe two.
The M48 is a great rifle, it's only problem in my eyes (literally) is the sights. Too hard to see. Had they adopted a peep sight like the 03 Springfield or even the Russian 91/30 type sights I think they might have approached perfection. Though they aren't the smoothest rifle to operate.
Will a Yugo M48 stock also fit a Yugo 24/47?
The stocks of the 24/47 and M448 are interchangeable as the actions are the same though the bolts are different. Going from an M48 to a 24/47 will not pose any problems. But, if taking an M48 to a 24/47 stock, you might have to cut a bolt arm relief.
Be advised! The 24/52C is an entirely different critter. Rendered from a Czech vz24, it's standard length action will not fit in either an M48 or 24/47 stocks.
M48 unique?...well....yes, to a point.....but then there *IS* the very similar M24/47..... wouldn't you say?
I think I have to unwrap the one I got from corwin, its killing me!
What type of elm is that stock???
Ulmus minor
@Riflechair Thank you, I suspected this after looking at a bunch of stuff online and reading that this is one of only two species of elm in Serbia. I want to make some gun stocks from field elm blanks but I’m not sure if I’ll be able to find any in the US...
man urs is pretty mine has streat line grains urs is beughtiful swirls
where is a place to get a decent mauser?
Justin Bailey www.corwin-arms.com
I don't know much about carpentry and types of woods but I'm almost 100% sure it is not teak. And it is from purely economical and practical. reasons. What people need to know Yugoslavia after WW2 was very poor country. Devastated by war and mostly rural. Does anybody really think in those conditions somebody would pick exotic and expensive type of wood for mass produced military equipment?
They use "boiled" fagus and in some cases kedar.
Finally..... Correct.... Elm...... how/why the "teak" urban myth started is beyond me. Just think of this little tidbit.....how much teak is found or grown in Yugoslavia or nearby?..... none !!
Re the teak myth, Mitchell's Mausers spawned that particular piece of crap.
I like to shoot and to work on my guns, to make them smoother. I like the original but some times from abuse or neglect you couldn't hit a trash can at 10 yards. I've had 2 of these so called shot out barrels, well they weren't shot out they were shot with surplus corrosive ammo and not cleaned, there ain't no fixen em, the only thing to do was to rebarrel 1 with an Israel 7.62x51, real nice shooter and the other a K98 7.9x57 also nice shooter both without the safety breach, but they work fine. There is homes for the missfits that people discard, look for them to. GOD BLESS TRUMP! GOD BLESS AMERICA!! GLORY BE TO GOD!!!
all respect lost for you the moment i saw the leaf on your jacket
Allah Allab and what does this mean for you then?
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