if you just want a mauser, buy a non Mitchels ( yugo ) M24 mauser. so some Bubba found a cool looking skull stamp and blasted away on the rifle, making it worth its weight in gold. its funny that the SS markings ive seen are never proper style / placement / size etc. an authentic one is pretty tough to find, and brings quite a hefty price. Their "deaths head" / SS rifles scare me the most. So it is possible that some or all of their "SS" or otherwise super-rare k98s are actually marked as such authentically, but still, the major refinishing and renumberin that Mitchell's does kills any collector's value that they might have otherwise had. Mitchell's also seems to be refinishing and remarking Russian capture rifles, which had less done to the metal during their refurbs than did the Yugo rifles. They may also be contracting someone to make teak stocks for them, but that would be so silly and pointless I have a hard time believing it. Mitchells must refinish and remark many of these, or just buys the newly-refurbed ones. Sometimes they replaced the German wood with a new-made Yugo stock, usually made out of elm, which many people mistake for teak (that rumor is SO damn hard to kill.). The Yugos rebuilt them, some more than others, to include usually, but not always, scrubbing the German markings off and stamping the Yugo crest on them, or just replacing the barrel altogether. Most are Yugo-capture, which could mean battlefied capture or ones that were "left behind" when the Germans left Yugoslavia toward the end of the war. The ACTUAL k98s that Mitchells sells are not, as far as I know, new production or post war production. It is my understanding that they didn't actually begin production of the M48 rifles until the early 50s, so maybe they were making k98s before that out of surplus parts or something –– but this is the first I've heard of it. I seriously doubt that the Yugos were manufacturing Mauser M48 rifles AND Mauser k98 rifles at the same time after WWII. Mitchell's used to (might still) sell these as "Mauser 98k, Model 48," which is misleading and kind of silly if you look at it. M48s are intermediate-lenght large-ring Mauser actions. but for clarity's sake, there are k98s, and then there are M48 Yugo Mausers. Not sure what you're disputing in my response. Many of the m48 stock from Mitchell's have been made in the last 5-6 years oversea's from Teak to make the guns look spectacular in appearance(someone did a wonderful write-up on this on the old boards––and had the wood tested––most of them are some form of Eastern Teak within the last 5-6 years!), but as far as collectability––-it's just not there for most collectors––––and this is the reason why you have not seen a lot of responses to you post––-most people avoid Mitchell's like the plague.They advertise having guns with "SS" and death head markings from every manufacture––-calling them originals––-VERY DECEPTIVE and a flat out lie!.And asking $10,000 for one––––WOW.pretty darn expensive Russian capture rebuilt/restamped with the "SS" or "Death head" stampings! K98K fans say these particular rifles were actually made in 1948. The photo shows a refinished rifle with site hood and no mention that they are Yugo. No Rune"Īs shown, made for SS at special concentration camp factory 1943-1944, with both 'bnz' and Rune." "The 'bnz' and the "s" indicate this rifle was asembled by the Gestapo prisoners for the exclusive use of the SS divisions."Īs shown, made for SS at special concentration camp factory 1943-1944. "We were very fortunate to find a small number of 'bnz' marked rifles and an even smaller numer of the rare rune marked SS rifles." The actual ad for the Mitchell Mauser K98 says: They also hock refinished and parts-gun Yugo M48s and M24/47s with suspect adverts, but they're not stamped with German markings. But they've been refinished and restamped, and are not collectible in any real sense, at least to anyone who actually knows anything about WWII rifles. Well, the MM's k98s are Yugo captured/acquired German k98.
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