Mauser 98 Project - Midway USA - General

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybx1zjBKp7w[/media] Good little video about sporterizing military firearms, and Larry Potterfield has a voice of the gods.

RIP Mauser.

Jesus, they basically rebuilt the rifle from the ground-up.

This capitalist master of death has taught me much about weapons, I salute you oh wise one.

Would have just left it as is. The Mauser 98 is perfect the way it is. I don't know what the point of 'sporterizing' a perfectly fine rifle is unless the wood was actually falling off

Yeah, Im really not a fan of sporterizing a rifle unless it is damaged and in need of repair.

Waste of a perfectly good 98k.

Can you even call it the same rifle after what they did to it? I mean I'm not a gun owner but I do love bits of history like that and it seriously looks like they ruined the poor thing.

So much production value with lighting, camera cranes, and multiple camera's, clear audio from multiple sources and great B roll And then it's edited with horrible text titles, which weren't even really proofed for capitals. Edit: And most of it wasn't even deinterlaced. I do not even get the editors mentality.

Sooo, just buy a normal hunting rifle and not waste a perfectly good piece of history? Hell most rifle use the Mauser style action anyway.

I'm pretty sure a rifle/weapon designed to kill people would be accurate enough for sporting standards :v:

He says it's satisfying to use a K98k that's been sporterized to hunt Elk... honestly I would see much more satisfaction out of shooting elk with a non-sporterizing K98k.

[QUOTE=desertdog11;44111142]I'm pretty sure a rifle/weapon designed to kill people would be accurate enough for sporting standards :v:[/QUOTE] You'd be surprised. Sporterizing is more about ease of use and comfort under controlled (IE, non-combat) conditions. Military weapons aren't "designed to kill people" (a 91/30 and a Remington 700 will kill someone (or a deer) just the same) so much as they're designed to be durable under combat stress and easily manufactured. With the military production rifle, you've got a heavier trigger pull, a non-accurized barrel (a process that can involve all sorts of things, from free floating to glass bedding), probably more weight than needed, a lot of military bolt action rifles don't have the bolt handle turned down (which can be useful for quick followup shots), most don't have integrated optics mountings, some people prefer non-standard irons, the stock might not be comfortable or ergonomic to the user, there could be non-needed features such as a bayonet lug, the trigger guard might not be open enough for shooting with gloves on... any number of things.

Atleast it looks nice, thank god its not some black tacticool piece of shit

[QUOTE=$$>MUFFIN<$$;44111182]He says it's satisfying to use a K98k that's been sporterized to hunt Elk... honestly I would see much more satisfaction out of shooting elk with a non-sporterizing K98k.[/QUOTE] Ok, but look at it this way: would you be more satisfied taking an elk with a rifle you bought from the store and did nothing more than zero and chuck a sling on, or a rifle you've extensively modified and put lots of time and effort into? The first option could just as easily be a sporterized rifle, too, mind you.

[QUOTE=mastermaul;44111291]Ok, but look at it this way: would you be more satisfied taking an elk with a rifle you bought from the store and did nothing more than zero and chuck a sling on, or a rifle you've extensively modified and put lots of time and effort into? The first option could just as easily be a sporterized rifle, too, mind you.[/QUOTE] Hunting with a piece of history would be pretty satisfying. The rifle in the video is most likely just a regular Mauser from a different country and not German. Other countries have produced Mausers and there is no way they'd let him butcher a German k98. It's still a piece of history regardless of where it was made, personally.

I'd just like to make a note by the way: For the most part with these cases of sporterizing, you only keep the Mauser's action, and put the other parts away as spares or swap-mes when its not hunting season.