Interarms mark X

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Gander D. Bander

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I did some trading for an Interarms Mark X in .270 with black syn stock. I was wondering if anyone knows who built the Mauser Mark X 4x40 scope that sits atop it. It looks like a weaver, and have Weaver rings. But not sure if so what is the approximate value of the scope?
Any input on the gun would be appreciated too.Thanks
 
I don't know who built the scope, but the rifle was made in Yugoslavia. My Interarms Mark X is in 30-06 and has sooooo much free-bore that I am about 1/4 of an incha away from the rifling when using just about any bullet at box magazine full lenght. I will be re-barreling this one in the future for sure...JOHN
 
I have one in 308. I would not take for mine. It is very accurite with the right load. 150 grn bullet and I can sshoot quarter size groups every time.
 
The actions were made by BRNO (now called CZ) and are some of the best '98 actions made. I have one in .270, and one in .375 H&H - they are absolutly F-I-N-E fine!

CatShooter
 
The Interarms Mark X Mauser commercial action was made in Yugoslavia by Zavodi Crvena Zastava and Interarms began importing them into the US in 1969.

Because of the Serbian War in Bosnia, the US State Department stopped the importation of the rifles during that conflict with its embargo of all weapons from the region.

It was not until well after the later Yugoslav War (Clinton administration era) that the US again began allowing importation of some weapons from the Serbian region. Charles Daley finally was given the right to import the actions again a couple of years ago, and up until a month or so ago, was the sole importer using the Charles Daly name.

Remington has now formed a pact with Zvastava and the actions willl be imported as M798 actions and barreled actions in the near future. The mini-action will be known as the 799.

http://www.charlesdaly.com/html/news_events/WhatsNew.asp

Catshooter is correct in that they are a very good commercial Mauser action, but CZ (Czechoslovakia) is not part of their parentage.

-BCB
 
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Catshooter is correct in that they are a very good commercial Mauser action, but CZ (Czechoslovakia) is not part of their parentage.

-BCB



Whan Czechoslovakia was one country, they were called BRNO. BRNO is the parent company that goes back to before Nazi Germany. When Czechoslovakia split, the company split too - and CZ became the company that imported them.

I think that CZ in now the world's only maker of Mauser 98 actions.

CatShooter
 
CatShooter:

Do an internet search on the two companies and you will find that (Brno)CZ and Zvastava were never the same company or associated in any way. Brno came about in 1918 in Brno, Czechoslovakia and Zvazstva came about separately in Yugoslavia as the Red Banner Works as it is known at the Kragujevac Arms Arsenal. ZCZ (Zvastava) is also an automobile producer and makes the current Yugo automobile.

Frank de Haas's book on the Bolt Action Rifle will also show they are not one and the same and never were. Brno is a Czech company from inception and Zvastava is a Yugolslav Company from its inception. Totally separate companies and they made totally separate versons of the 98 Mauser action.

The most common or well known form of the BRNO Mauser is the Czech VZ-24 military action which is a very good quality action. Other later models were the commercial ZG-47, and the ZKK among a couple of others.

As far as revisionist European History goes, if you want to push the belief that a Mauser Mark X is Brno made and imported or somehow derived from a company that was once part of Brno, have at it, but it's simply not true. Nor are the current Zvastava actions which up untill very recently were imported by Charles Daly and soon to be sold by Remington. Note my mention of the US arms embargo in my first post which stopped the flow of the Mark X action into the US in the 1980's. Charles Daly just in the past two years acquired State Dapartment approval to import the actions.

Some people have assumed there is/was a link between the two companies becasue the Mark X Mauser has ZCZ stamped in a cirlce on the left receiver wall. ZCZ stands for Zavodi Crvena Zvastava, the Yugoslav Armanent firm which built and sold armaments for the Tito and Milosevik regimes in Yugoslavia. Its inception is totally separate and distinct from BRNO's in Czechoslovakia and the CZ part of the stamping on the receiver has nothing to do with BRNO.

Even the Charles Daly link I provided mentions their association with Zvastava up until very recently when Remington negotiated the right to import the actions.

-BCB
 


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