Zastava Mauser

[HB]

Does anybody know if these are all long actions? Short actions? Or the Yugo intermediate?

I am thinking about having my Zastava 308 rebarreled to something like 300 Win with a heavier sporter barrel. The rifle appears to be a long action with a mag space to get it to feed 308? Any suggestions of calibers that won't require breech face work?

Thanks,
HB

 

[js8588]

By Mauser, you mean the M70 commercial rifle, not an M48 (etc) milsurp?

 

[Llama Bob]

Those were imported by Charles Daley and Remington at various times IIRC.

I've seen cartridges ranging from .243 to .458WM, but I'm pretty sure the .308s and .243s were built on regular M98 actions. The did a .223 too, but it was some weird thing.

 

[cdb1]

HB your question about action size got me curious as I thought Zastava made a short, intermediate and long action. Just did some research and I was wrong. Looks like they are all long actions in the M70.

I don’t know of any .308 caliber cartridge with a .473 rim that gives magnum performance. There could be one, I just don’t know what it would be.

If you are wanting higher velocity you may have to go for a smaller diameter(caliber) bullet if you don’t want to alter the bolt face. I wonder if there is enough diameter difference to rebore a .308 barrel to .338 Federal?

 

[Llama Bob]

I don’t know of any .308 caliber cartridge with a .473 rim that gives magnum performance. There could be one, I just don’t know what it would be.

There's nothing even vaguely standardized with more horsepower than a .30-06 AI loaded to 65KPSI. Anything with more juice would have to have a rebated rim.

That .30-06, even loaded to pressures you mother wouldn't approve of, falls about 200 ft/s short of a .300WM. However, even at saner pressures has more than enough velocity for pretty much any reasonable application.

 

[HankC]

My 308 commercial Zastava Mauser has 7-5/8" center to center screw spacing which indicates it is Intermediate Large Ring like the Yugo M48 made at Zastava. It has 14xx S/N, likely an early one, don't know the current production ones.