Looking for a Mexican Mauser

[xbimmers]

I am interested in starting a search for a Mexican Mauser. Just wondered if anyone can point me in the right direction.

[DWarner]

They pop up on Gunbroker every once in awhile. Usually, pretty beat up, mismatched, and very expensive.

[Tanner68]

And keep your eye on the big national auction houses. I have seen a few.

[Jarhead]

very hard to find in decent shape, if your looking for a clean one and are willing to pay call Dennis at Empire Arms http://www.empirearms.com/

[gunn]

When I saw this topic I was waiting to see a picture of a chromed out/gold plated, highly engraved mauser -- A C&R version of this gun

-g

[Tanner68]

I searched at James D Julia, nothing this time around.

[knucklehead0202]

When I saw this topic I was waiting to see a picture of a chromed out/gold plated, highly engraved mauser -- A C&R version of this gun

-g

lol, my mind went to the same place. seriously though, with the steady influx of everything else Mexican, why no mausers?

[gunn]

lol, my mind went to the same place. seriously though, with the steady influx of everything else Mexican, why no mausers?

I would hazard to guess that's why the price is so high. After all, where would these mexican mausers come from?
* If the source would be Mexican military stockpiles (even assuming they still have any): That would place the mexican govt in an interesting situation. How could they push for more gun control in the US while still asking for cash for their old surplus firearms?

* If the source would be private parties in mexico: I'm willing to bet that the law prohibiting the private ownership of military caliber weapons includes the rounds used in the "mexican mausers" (7mm, right?).

If so, I wonder when it would take effect. Since the private ownership laws are much more draconian in Mexico, it's a safe assumption that the total # illegal guns owned Mexico (including the mexican mausers) vs. those legally owned is a higher than in the US.

Who wants to bet that it's quite hard if not impossible to legally export a mexican mauser FROM MEXICO if the ownership wasn't 100% kosher?
-g

[Mike A]

Mexican mausers have been illegal for private ownership in Mexico for MANY years. They used to make exceptions for certain reservists and paramilitary police and military retirees. That ended decades ago. I got my one example, an FN Model 1924 police carbine, from a retired federale in 1961. And got hassled up here because the barrel was under 18" long....

Most of the Mexican crested Mausers I've seen up here got here from other countries where they had been "run" for some war or another. Some were donated by the Mexican Govt. to the Spanish Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War and found their way into the surplus market in the 1970s when Franco decided they weren't fit to convert into FR-7s. They were mostly Mauser Model 1895s and a few Model 1910s.

I doubt that there are significant numbers of any Mausers other than the Model 1936 in reserve in Mexico. We probably will never know. Nice rifles.

[ElvenSoul]

Not a Mauser but Ruger sell a Number 1 chambered in that round.

[subijitsu]

This is interesting, I didnt know they were rare. Years ago my father gave me his Mexican Mauser that he was given by my great uncle when he was 18. It has since been sporterized, a new stock was hand made for it by my great uncle, and converted to .257 Roberts improved by my father.

I kinda wish it was unaltered now, but I guess its a family heirloom so it doesnt matter either way.

[ScottB]

A lot of them were sporterized. It was a very good small ring mauser action. 7mm mauser is a great round and many contract mausers were chambered for it.

[Killawhale415]

This is an ok looking carbine

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=218869771

[bigstick61]

I'd like to find one as well, in military configuration. One of the 7mm models (last model was .30-06) was my grandfather's service rifle in the army.

[louie]

Century imported most of the Mexican Mauser in the mid to late nineties. They used to ber around 35-50.00, and most had poor to fair bores. I remember once when I had my C and R FFL ordering 10 dark bore ones for $19.87, and these were the best ones I had ever gotten. Half were actually matching bolts. Sold all off years back and just kept one for me. They still use them for military parades, but these are the m36 style, not the 1910 or 1924 ones.