The partisans on Octoreoccupied the factory and found 15,000 Gew 98 barrels and other parts and began assembling rifles. They felt most of the arms found were of second class. They closed the Uzice factory soon after taking it over April 15, 1941, and focused on industries related to aircraft production in other Yugoslavian factories. However the Nazis never actually produced rifles in Yugoslavia as far as I know. I have one that i bought from a forum member a few years ago and its an M48. What you do get is a new shooter grade gun.which you can use and shoot and hunt maybe (a Slovenian acquaintance of mine hunts with it in Alaska). I was in the last generation of recruits that went through this process training on an M48 and had an SKS issued to me in Basic Training for 3 months. They also were used in classrooms for demonstration and learning the gun and disassembly (we had preparatory classes for 2 years to prepare you for mandatory service) as well as going to the range and shooting them when you "Graduate". So although he claims this you dont have a guarantee that you ll get a 100% never fired gun as Mitchells refinishes some of them and nowadays most i believe.Īs they became obsolete with the SKS being introduced in the 50s because it was a semi and became the standard Yugo Army Rifle until 1972 (AKs started being issued) they still remained in storage and ultimately were sold to Mitchell and surplus dealers for sales in Canada,US and such. They have no collector value as he embellishes the story behind them and he s been known to re stamp old guns and surplus guns that were used (most were in storage but some issued during the 90s Yugo Wars). I ve seen pictures of him purchasing them from the Macedonian Army depots in the early 90s when i lived over there. 1980s and 90s production, with clean brass and berdan primer. Yugoslavian 8mm (7.92x57) ammo, the M75 Sniper grade designation, with the FMJ 198 grain bullet. Yes, The Nazis did take over the production in the 1941-1944 time periods but these guns were made after Tito`s conflict with Stalin in the 1948-1953 tim period. This is really premium surplus and I would not hesitate to use it my guns. But at least they are K98k rifles, not M48s being sold as 'Mauser 98K' rifles. 8x57 jrs (8mm mauser) mitchell’s mauser k98k byf 1942 ww2 nazi 24 inch ' barrel evans, wv 25241: new old stock: : 1,200.00 : 8x57 jrs (8mm mauser) k98 mitchells mauser bcd 41 mint german 98k ripley, wv 25271: new old stock: : 2,200. Many of Mitchells mausers come from Ex-Yugoslavia successor states where they were sitting in surplus National Guard armories since the early 50s. After Mitchell started getting his hands on Russian Capture (RC) real K98k's he stopped pushing the M48s as much, although his K98k advertising is also misleading and deceptive in my opinion. Here is a bit of information on Mitchell as i am somewhat familiar of where he s been getting them for years.
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