by
Seanpmc1
Thats why it always pays to look in Pawn Shops and places like that. Sporterized Military Mausers are a dime-a-dozen, but there are a whole lot of people that don't even associate Mauser with Factory built hunting rifles, and the few that do think of the modern ones.
One of my cousins just bought a Savage Model 99 in .250 Savage built around 1920. His was a standard grade, but in nearly NIB condition. He wouldn't tell me what he gave for it, but he did say it was over $1000, and that was after a lot of shopping around.
I would imagine that with plenty of competition from Remington, Winchester, and Savage at the time, there probably weren't a whole lot of those factory Mausers imported to the US. Hard telling what its worth to the right collector.
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