The M24 rifle manufactured by Zastava Arms was based on the FN M1924 version of the Mauser M1898. It was Zastava Arms who were the ones who were commissioned to get these new Mauser M1898 based M24 military rifles into local production and this officially commenced on October 15th, 1928, which was the 75th Anniversary of the beginning of Zastava Arms original company in Kragujevac. They initially had their new rifles made by FN in Belgium until they were able to enter into a contract with FN to manufacture the FN Model 1924 in their own country.
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1880 (the “Mauser Koka”) was deemed obsolete in 1924 the government decided to upgrade their military service rifles. Subsequent to that, when the Mauzer Milovanović M. Zastava Arms has a long history of building Mauser based rifles, beginning back in 1880 with the Kosta Milovanović re-design of the Mauser 1871 for the Serbian armed forces. But if you, like me, have a limited supply of shekels to stuff into the “new rifle” piggy-bank then there is a much less expensive alternative out there that allows us to purchase a rifle with a “Mauser ’98” style action, and that is the Zastava M70.
These rifles are however not only eye-wateringly beautiful, but they are also eye-wateringly expensive. They also supply their beautifully made actions and/or barreled actions to such gunmakers as Britain’s Rigby. In recent years Mauser have resumed production of their Mauser ’98 both in standard and magnum action sizes. If you would like to own a rifle built on Paul Mauser’s legendary M1898 nowadays however you have a couple of choices, one very expensive, the other surprisingly affordable. 375 Holland & Holland Magnum sporting rifle: note that the action is the military type with thumb cut-out for stripper clip use. 500 Jeffrey, which was built on the standard Mauser ’98 action.Ĭatalogue page for the. Jeffery used the Mauser ’98 as the foundation for their. 375 Holland & Holland Magnum rifles back in 1912 by opening up the standard Mauser ’98 military action to accommodate it. The British bought Mauser ’98 actions and Holland & Holland built their. The standard Mauser ’98 action was used as the basis for pretty much everything from things like the 22-250 and the 5.6×57, the 7×57 and 8×57, the 30-06 and its derivatives among the standard calibers. There is an element of truth in that statement and it was proved in the years after the war when it was the Mauser M1898 action that was in production for commercial sporting rifles chambered for “all cartridges great and small”. When the world entered into the First World War it was said that the Americans went to war with a target rifle, the Springfield 1903, the Germans went to war with a hunting rifle, the Mauser M1898, and the British went to war with a combat rifle, the Lee-Enfield.
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