Why to me it feels good, it just does... I really don't know why

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Its satisfting

Basically. I like how it looks, and feels. It's fun, and classic. Otherwise it's kind of obsolete

it reminds me of how you close the door on a dog kennel

I prefer levers and pumps, but there's something to be said for manual operation over an auto.

+Andy Wilderness the modern automatic has vastly improved gradually becoming more and more like a manual. Going from locking torque converters to flappy paddles and duel clutch setups. Autos are getting better at efficiency simply because they are programs for efficiency first. the computer will do a better job of keeping it in the most efficient range, hence the rise of cvts. On a strictly power in vs power out comparison a standard will win just on the fact there are less moving parts and there is no pump to drive or converter slip. The manual and bolt comes down to involvement if you want something that is the greatest and fastest have a robot do it for you, I will keep to rowing through the gears and will have a hell of a lot fun

Manuals have other advantages. Have you ever been coming down a hill and your automatic car just keeps speeding up? Manuals will maintain a certain speed going downhill depending on the gear you are in. This increases the life of your brakes, dramatically so if you live in a hilly area. There's also the matter that shifting into neutral rather than idling in drive saves gas. Manuals almost always have better gas mileage than automatics. Finally, there is always something to be said for mechanical simplicity. The only thing that typically needs to be replaced with manual transmissions is the clutch, and that's like once every 100k miles. Meanwhile, I've had automatic transmissions fail at 60k, and I mean totally need to buy a new one kind of failure. That's a 1k repair bill vs 3k+.

F1 is combination of manual and automatic shifting, I prefer manual (Yes im European) for having control over your gears but in dense cities an automatic is much easier.

Perfectly worded my good sir.

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@@chrisruiz3269 no

@@chrisruiz3269 fuck you, if you wannted to make ads you would have a marketing job, so don't advertise yourself in other peoples comments.

That is a good thing to have drilled into one's head.

Luger pistols too!

WWII firearms had so much character. So many modern firearms are starting to look the same. I be there would be a pretty good market if those guns where put back into production

Yea Im surprised they haven't done this

SMG Guns started making Semi-Auto FG42s

Ive been throwing this question around canadiangunnuts.com for quite a while now and there is apparently a company that is planning to sell their own repro k98k in original and non calibers some time hopefully in 2018. I forgot the companys name but their plans were mentioned in more than a few guns magazines.

Glad that he didn´t talk about the service revolver of the day... (you can´t load it like modern ones and it kept jamming all the F-ing time)

Pun intended?

Also the Enfield, quote "the rear-locking lug (systems) are more weak and dangerous." A sporterized Enfield with a flawed bolt can take 15 rounds of 300 Win Mag before it gives out. Plus the advantage with rear locking lugs are that you don't have to pull the bolt as long, you just need to pull the length of the magazine. With front lugs, you have to pull a little longer because you have to clear the bolt lugs on the bolt. And I like the cock-on-close because in my opinion it lets you know your going into battery if you fight against the spring. Plus I have a stiff magazine lever spring on my Enfield and if I hit it on accident, it aint going nowhere. That issue of dropping your mags by accidentally hitting the lever is basically bad trigger discipline.

And people say that's a cheaper/better deal than a milsurp. It's a bit like not mentioning that an economy car needs an engine overhaul, a new clutch, and a full new set of tires and wheel bearings. Hidden costs.

One of my buddies has a 700 with Magpul MBUs on it 😂

welcome to the big family of CZ...

Savage model 11 predator comes with iron sights.

Immortalkalashnikov Howa sells it's 1500 .308 bolt rifle in a scout version which comes with iron sights, a 10 round magazine, and a picitenny rail, as well as a flash suppressor

and have something magical about them

best name for the city in Simpsons :D

FlameCrackFire haha true. But myself prefer ar15s and such

FlameCrackFire go buy an ar

Daniel Do bolt action hater

I’m a lefty but I’ve learned to shoot like a righty

Just use upside down

agreed

Agreed.

I concur

I agree, but mines still better than yours

Well it's hard to compete with a mine, Levi. But my rifle has more range than your mine.

HaHaHa, their butthurt sustains me! Even though I own an M91/30...

+chrisloUSA I own one too but I agree that they are pretty bad, cheap and fun, but my other rifles are definitely better.

Catwithanm16 Yeah, the action on mine is very rough and takes effort to move. To eject a round I have to palm slap the bolt to get it to open.

Lube up the chamber with some solvent and go to town with a 12 gauge wire brush in the chamber. All it is is hardened cosmoline.

m00n piggy Thanks, I am going to give that a try!

According to some comments here, Mauser is about the same price. And its better.

RevanBladeZ Price in the gun shop today or the Price during the war?

Bernardo Grando Today i guess. There are more Mausers than the war-time models though.

You can get good Mosins for less than $200.

Mine cost about $180. I got to hand pick mine. It's a 2MoA rifle, and I have the pics to prove it.

Yeah, right. I'm not shitting on the Enfield's quality, but the Mauser action is still in use because it's the best for the purposes you want in a modern bolt action. The Mauser action is stronger, safer and more reliable than any other popular bolt action, period. The Enfield is faster, but Speed is no reason to buy a bolt action nowadays. And the Mosin cut so many corners to be cheap to make, so...

No it really is down to their actions. Enfields and Mosins because of their 2 piece bolt heads wear out much faster than Mauser actions, and the Mosin actions cycle pretty roughly (yes even well made ones don't cycle as smoothly as the Mauser and Enfields actions) The Mauser action just hit a nice sweet spot between strong, reliable, simple, and smooth.

Nah, it's a Nokia with a barrel.

that sounds a lot like the 5 Sherman myth... Cost of a Mauser vs a Mosin during the war was probalby not much different as the base materials are about the same and labor was in effect bought at "discount prices"

The Mosin was cheap because of the huge surplus. The Red Army was the largest army in WWII after all. The Mosin might be cheaper and simpler to manufacture due to the push feed design than the Mauser, but it wasn't the simplest rifle in manufacture during WWII. The french MAS36 was a newer rifle designed specifically to be simple and cheap. Yet, due to low production numbers, it's more expensive than the Mosin.

The reasons for the MN are not as simple as just price.. though it was a major player. For a detailed set of reasons for it kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pNednrWLtK_Qlo0.html

What are you referring to with "the Mosin"? The Mosin-Nagant issued by the UDSSR in World War II differed in quality in a massive way. While almost every single Kar98k (even the late war variants produced under the difficulty of strategical bombing) is reliable, a lot of the Mosin Nagants had a lot of problems ranging from unreliability to inaccuracy. If you just compare the action as a principal you clearly see the advanteges the Mauser action has over the Mosin.

it's a garbage rod pos, coming from someone who has owned 40 give or take, the 98 action is the one and true god of bolt actions.

The Finnish Mosins are actually good rifles. The WW2 soviet Mosins are junk.

They do make great fenceposts here in Aus.

me to

@@DaCheeseIsEpicSubToHim As long as you love it, that is all that matters for you. Who cares what others think. I love my Swiss K31 and M48 Mauser.

@@alixus10 i like swiss guns

@@alixus10 mauser is good for haunting

I disagree with your opinion and I would defile your opinion with my pee if it was a physical thing. Nothing personal of course.

I've never seen a Springfield drop it's floor plate while shooting. mosins are closer to carcanos and g88 commission rifles than Mausers In terms of performance.

"puts NATO to shame" "masterpiece" lol

BigMek456 i meant the x51. And while it might not be suited for magazines as a rimmed cartridge, it's adapted in the Russian Army via things like the curved SVD magazine, and belt feed.

Miloš Golubović How does that "put NATO to shame"? .308 is basically the same round minus an unnecessary rim.

That's a great idea

+Shawn Williams I showed a Mosin bolt. But my attitude towards the Mosin has been shaped by experience. I have owned many over the years and not one has been on par with its contemporaries. I have given them more than a fair shake, and they are horrible.

TFB TV ok. I have shot a mosin and know how to shot them. The sticky bolt doesn't bother me really. And plus its made in Russia and how could you not like it?

***** because you don't see beauty in old guns now do you?

***** ha! Man I see what the problem is. Mosin hater in the hood!

+Moon Man you may be right about some things. but personaly I like it. I'll respect your opinion.

If you're talking about the rifle with the scope, that's not a Mauser. Alex has stated in a comment above that the scoped rifle is a Kimber 8400.

Most sporterizing of Mauser rifles happened just after WW2 where the fact that you owned a Nazi firearm was frowned upon so many made these changes really to disguise the fact that they used a Mauser.

ljp200 But what I'm saying is that that particular rifle is not a sporterized Mauser Gewehr 98 or K98k. That particular rifle shown in the video is a Kimber firearm that was made that way in the first place, using a Mauser-style action.

From where did you get that information??? Nobody after WW2 was concerned with having a Mauser. They were sought after because of their design. They are still sought after and sporterized. Have you ever been to a gun show or been around Military collectors?. There was no stigma owning a "Nazi" rifle after the war. To the victors the spoils.

***** , No, I thought it was so beautiful and then was followed by talk of a Mauser action being a blank canvas and putting it in any caliber. I'm sorry, you don't sporterize history.

I much prefer it to the K98k, the No. 4 has really nice sights

My No 4 Mk. 1 Canadian longbranch with a two groove barrel is an absolute beast. 180grn .303 softpoints smack down anything it comes across.

no. 1 mk. III Lithgow is one my choice.

PhillipT I have one of those two mate, a 1942 full wood lithgow. I'm trying to get in as original condition as possible, boiled linseed oil every night and steaming out the dents in the wood. I'm also lightly re-blueing some faded parts where necessary. I need to get used to leaf and blade sights though, spent a little too long with the peep sights of no.4's haha.

I love my Savage No4 but I feel cool when I shoot my mosin at the range.

Excellent point Steve. It is somewhat arbitrary the cock-on-close vs. open argument. Older Mausers like the Swedish 94/96s cock on close, later Masuers cock on open, and most Mauser clones. The Mosin cocks on open. The Krag cocks on open. It doesn't make a different with cycling speed. Supposedly the biggest difference is lock-time. Though I cannot measure it, it seems that cock on close designs have softer springs and more massive pins, so they have a longer lock time, and this can play hob with accuracy sometimes. It is the reason why many folks will convert their Swedish Mausers to cock-on-open. It may also be the reason why Norwegian Krags (cock on open) sometimes had better accuracy than the Swedish Mausers.

I like the SMLE. I don't like their rear-locking bolt which compresses and increases in headspace with time. The later SMLEs with better metallurgy are better about this, but there are a whole lot of Mk1s out there that stretch the brass out something fierce.

curioushooter to be fair mk1 can be pretty damn old I doubt they were built to last as long as they have

@@curioushooter I think theres a bit of mythical status to Enfield headspace issues,caused possibly by people just parroting what others say,flogged out rifles,the fact that they often will close on no-go gauges(doesn't mean a thing with these..) or brass that's already been re-loaded far too many times. Yes, they are hard on brass and the chambers, even in best case scenarios are not consistant match grade quality instead designed to feed ammo of varying consistency coupled with battlefield crud, this they do well.I have 3 Enfields myself and have never had a case head separation or any headpsace issues, my no1mk3 and no4mk1 both have no2 bolt heads and pristine barrels, i reload but haven't gotten past 4 reloads yet on any of my brass so im not going to comment on what is "too many" when it comes to reloading 303brit , a mate reckons he had case head separation issues years ago on his no4 and that was caused by the brass rather than the rifle,he was given handloaded rounds,possibly only necksized and most likely already past use-by date.It had nothing to do with rifle because in the last 12 months i have personally put at east 1000 rounds of factory loaded ammo through that very rifle with zero problems of any kind whatsoever.I have multiple Mausers as well so im not a one eyed fanboi, but both the no4's mentioned above outshoot any of them, both shoot under 2moa with PPU while my Swedes (supposedly the ants pants of millsurp mausers) struggle to get under 3 moa.

@@dunxy I appreciate this post!

I like Mauser

+Dmitri Patronov hahahah

springfeild and arisaka are both basically copeis of the mauser action arent they?

They have basically the same system. But i would go with a Arisaka with a bayonet! BANZAI!

yeah :(

So Mauser vs Mauser vs Mauser? Hmm I'll have to go with Mauser

Kimber 8400 in .300 WSM

+TFB TV thanks

carpe diem Ok tough guy

They are tough as coffin nails some are actually really fucking accurate

Depends on what animal and where you live.

A mice?

why just why... fucking cool idea though

+TFB TV Why would there be a restriction? I mean, the bigger and faster the round, the more humane of a kill you'll get. And a .50 BMG should guarantee a humane kill on just about anything. Am I missing something? (I'm aware that you wouldn't want to shoot a rabbit with a .50 BMG if you want to use any part of the animal)

imagine stealthy walking with MASSIVE FUCKING GUN hunting squirrels. yer fucking ridiculous but a funny idea

Yeah they are, no love for mosin my alex either!

Great on the range, I always worry about new guys with Mausers as they cant drop all their rounds when the range officer tells everyone to stop, mosins have a switch to drop all the rounds out the internal mag, semi-autos and Enfields have detachable magazines.

Er hat ein Fetish fur Deutschland.

I remember seeing lanyard loops on.303 magazines.

Because they can ?

+UnknownBigF . Yes

Aww yes the poodle, man's eternal enemy.

okay, wth?

poodles shit talk too much. bitches get stitches. world goes round.

And the Arisaka action is stronger than both of them....

Actually the Nerf action is strongest.