Mauser- What is It?!

[Gallahad]

If anyone knows anything about this gun, polease post it. It is an 8x57 Mauser. There is no crest on the top of the receiver. On the side of that thick part of the receiver is 422 with an M underneath. To the left of that is a small symbol that I cannot make out. The barrel is marked with a GV with that same little symbol underneath it. The best I can describe the symbol is a 4 leaf clover. On the strip of the receiver in front of the bolt release it reads CESKOSLOVENSKA ZBROJOVKA, A.S., BRNO
There are four steps in the barrel, five if you count the small section that connects to the receiver. It has a turn down bolt, which is stamped 422 with the M underneath it. The bolt was turned down by a very good gunsmith, so I don't know what the bolt looked like originally. I don't know if the stock is original, as it has been sporterized, but it extends all the way to the muzzle and is held there with a metal "endpiece." There's an old weaver scope mounted on it and the barrel was bedded the whole length of the stock. There's an after-market safety "flipper" which says Mark II.

If you know the name, approximate date, values, ANYTHING, please post  :-)

[David Carey]

Well this would be the manufacture of the gun, sorry I do not have more to add.

http://www.zbrojovkabrno.com/

Dave

[lilabner]

Somebody here is probably a Mauser expert and can tell you about the rifle. The BRNO Mausers had a great reputation , like the current CZ rifles. If you don't get your answers here, go to gunboards.com/forums, a website for gun collectors. They have a board dedicated to Mausers and those people know all there is to know about firearm history and values. I've fired a half dozen question at them and always got good info.

[GuntherII]

Should have a date stamp on the ring, left side I believe. I bought 8 of these, unground, for $122.00 per about a year ago. Of course they were fully military, no sporterizing.

Those old buggers shoot pretty good, even the war years when they were a little rough on the outside, they were GREAT on the inside.

[Aardvark]

 The Czechs at Brno built nearly all the Mausers in the world between 1918 and 1938...They bought up all mausers tooling and plans from Germany when the treaty of Versailles denied Germany the right to produce weapons...The M designates the country the contract was for...For example anything with an R would be Romanian, a P was Chimese, etc...I do not know offhand what the M was for but The Czech made mauser was the standard thru those years...In 1938, Germany began to take over the Czech Republic and their factories and continued on with different markings...The DOU for example was a product of the Bystrca plant in Slovakia...