need help on an old CZ rifle.

[willyjixx]

any experts here? i need help.

its markings are as follows
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Cs. ZBROJOVKA AKC. SPOL.V BRNE


the little up arrows are above the 1st C an the last E

there is the word Modelo an some numbers but i can barely make them out. it looks like 1932 but i could be wrong.

it has 6mm on the barrel an the SN on the chamber? 011XX

its a beutiful stock a light brown (think of light oak) with a black platic butt that sais Fajen on the top.

all the metal is blued with a shiny bolt looks to be mauser style (not to up on em just know what i read in janes) with an internal magazine. the floorplate has no levers just a little hole in front of the trigger guard with what looks like a detent in it?


please help! i got this rifle through a trade an have no clue what i have


someone some where just fell out of there chair an said why not me that lucky B@$t@RD.

 

[makarov]

I sounds like a CZ manufactured Mauser 98. I don't know how much one would be worth. Some of that depends on the date of importation. Pre-68 Gun Act or after. Which importers marks are on it. If it is a recent importation it probably is worth between $100-200 depending on condition and caliber.

 

[willyjixx]

it wont be for sale


i want to know the history, how to clean it take it apart, if its 6mm remington or something else. there are no importer marks on it that i can tell

 

[makarov]

Read your post again and saw that it had a Fajen stock. It sounds like a sporterized Mauser. I don't know what these are going for at all. Some prefer the Military version, some will pay for a nice hunting rifle with value as a shooter, but not as a collectible.

 

[willyjixx]

i want to keep it an shoot it. !!!

i was surfing around on google an just found out that Fajen makes stocks so its not a name of the rifle so whoops on that part.

if i had a digi cam i would love to send a pic......(dangit) that would probably help more.

i sent an E-mail to CZ usa an i am hoping they can provide some info.

how old is this rifle do you think? it has a modern tasco variable on it.
i dont want to screw up an put the wrong 6mm in it. as soon as i get time an money its going to the gun smith for a proofing an guaging

 

[Jim Watson]

You PROBABLY have a sporterized '98 Mauser made by CZ in Brno, Czechoslovakia sometime between 1924 and 1948. There is nothing left of the original military rifle except the action, it would have started out as an 8x57 as used by Germany and most of its neighbors and conquests. Rifles and actions sold cheap from the end of WW II until mailorder sales were banned in 1968.

There were a LOT of military surplus rifles sporterized in that time span. Yours is PROBABLY a 6mm Remington, which is pretty much a 6x57 and is an easy conversion for a Mauser. The 6mm came out in 1957 so yours was PROBABLY sporterized between then and 1968. It could have been done later, but after GCA '68 the surplus rifles were harder to get and gunsmithing prices started going up.

 

[willyjixx]

thanks for the input fellas!!!

so to sum it up................

i have an old, cheap, expensive to work on half ??? deer rifle.

it will look good in the safe an 50 years from now no one will know what it is but me!

thanks again

 

[Mike Irwin]

You need to have someone do a chamber cast to determine what it's chambered for.

It could be 6mm Remington, or it could be some funky wildcat.

 

[Al Thompson]

" i dont want to screw up an put the wrong 6mm in it. as soon as i get time an money its going to the gun smith for a proofing an guaging"

Mike's right - check that your smith does a chamber cast too.

The magazine drops when you take a punch (bullet tip works fine) and depress that detent.

Have fun! Love my mausers!