Mauser M18 Bolt-action

MANY SOUTH AFRICAN hunters and shooters have an n emotional attachment to user rifle No doubt the high y suc sfu use of Mausers by the Boe s during the 1899 902 War, com-bin d with the impec cca le reputation earned by Mauser sporters in the hunting fields of southern Africa, had much to do with this – further enhanced by use of Mauser M98 actions on rifles made by Musgrave of Bloemfontein.

Following World War II, the Mauser factory ceased production of rifles, but started up again in the mid-1960s with the introduction of the Model 66 – a departure from the Model 98 pattern. The M66 was discontinued in 1974. Thereafter, the company’s change in design philosophy and the higher prices