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There has been a great variety in the mounting on these. Century arms more recently began offering drilled and tapped M48 rifles not marketed as sniper rifles. There were a few other mystery mounting systems that were mixed in with the above rifles. With replica or fake examples of this rifle easy to produce by just adding mount, scope, and altering the bolt, collectors purchasing an authentic example of this rifle in Sniper configuration should always request and retain the original shipping documents if at all possible. At the same time a rifle built from parts should never be presented as an authentic Sniper rifle. With similar mounts still in production and readily available, the M48 is an excellent candidate to replicate by collectors as used during the Bosnian War. These rifles will be import marked on barrel with Yugo 8mm C.A.I. They were initially marketed as Bosnian Sniper Rifles.

The Banner marked mount is of much older use with the ZRAK mount of more recent manufacture and still produced today. When these rifles were first imported and offered by Century Arms there was a choice of rifle with Mauser Banner marked mount or ZRAK marked mount. This is a M48 rifle that has had EAW style Hebelschwenkmontage style scope mount bases added at some time. To better understand the many variations and models of Mauser rifles produced in former Yugoslavia I highly recommend the article 'Yugo Mauser Rifles Explained' presented on the Marstar Canada website. Any of these may have been found in the same sniper configurations as the M48 for use in the Bosnian Civil War. To confuse things there is a whole line of models and variations of Yugo Mausers. In order to reduce production costs the Preduzece 44 factory used stamped barrel bands, stamped trigger guards, and stamped floor plates. The exception is the M48A and M48B rifles. Practically all parts of the M-48 rifles were milled as opposed to using stamped steel. All M48 Mausers were made inР’В Yugoslavia at the Preduzece 44 factory, part of a group of factories for Zastava.

#Mauser k98 sniper rifle for sale full#

The M48 was made post war by Yugoslavia on the pattern of the K98 with some changes such as the full handguard and a shorter intermediate length action. What is a M48 Mauser rifle and Preduzece 44? It has a range finding reticule cammed for the 8mm cartridge. The rifle above has mounted a Zrak ON-76 Sniper Scope.