It was made entirely out of milled steel parts with wood stocks (walnut, beech and elm were used throughout production). The M48 borrowed on pre-war M1924 and wartime K98k features and combined both in the finished product. Based on prototyping begun in 1948, in 1950 the Model 48 Mauser was finalized and adopted for service. Many of the necessary machines to manufacture rifles were acquired abroad, most notably from stocks of captured German machines in the Soviet Union. These became known as the Model 24/47.ĭespite the continued availability of refurbished German K98k and M24/47 rifles, the further need for arms continued. In the cases where older stocks with VZ24 type side-swivels were used, the side-mounted hardware was removed and the holes plugged with dowels. The guns were converted using new and old parts and were stocked in new and used wood identical to pre-war Model 1924 rifle stocks. Beginning in 1947, many of the old rifles and barelled actions on-hand were upgraded and rebuilt into serviceable arms to further bolster the military and satisfy their need for equipment. These rifles provided the Yugoslavian armed forces with the backbone of their equipment until a longer-term solution could be found. Re-armament began by refurbishing the German K98k rifles on-hand at the time of the German surrender.
After the war's conclusion, Yugoslavia had effectively no remaining capacity to build complete rifles and the technology to do so would have to be re-developped and relearned by its craftsmen. Yugo Mauser Serial Number Lookup Note: Pics of rifle provided courtesy of moderator Claven2.ĭuring the second world war, Germany had absorbed the Yugoslavian government's inventory of Mauser rifles into its military and had stripped the Military Technical Institute, Kragujevac (fore-runner to the Zastava factory complex) of most useable machines for use elsewhere in the Reich's armaments industry. SERBIAN AND YUGOSLAV MAUSER RIFLES (2005) by Branko Bogdanovic - ISBN:1-88Ĭanadian Collector Market Value Estimate: $
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