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Nice! That's the one I still want, but am unwilling to pay for. I don't really care about the Japanese or Italian weapons, and I've never even seen a French rifle in person.

BTW...you say M48 Mauser? Is that the Yugo version.......from after WW2?

Now you can start on the K98k, Garand, No 4 Mk2 Lee-Enfield, 91/30 Mosin, Type 99 Arisaka, MAS 36, and 91/41 Carcano.
Round it out with a Finn Mosin, Czech Mauser, FN Mauser, Turkish Mauser, and an M38 Mosin, and you're in business!

 

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cicpup it was $1,300, which was several hundred lower than I had been seeing online

Whoof....and THAT is why I collect .22's!

My most expensive WW2 era gun was the $500 Garand. Most were under $200. Ahhhh....the good old days.

 

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My 91/30’s were $89. The store even had the cosmoline cleaned out of them. I have two war year Izzies, and an older 1931 Tula hex that can shoot pretty nice groups. Thinking back, that one may have been $99, I got it a year or two after the others.

 

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I did that once...called my Bulgarian Makarov a Belgian... DOH!!!!!🤣