Hey all,

Buddy of mines dad passed away and I'm trying to help him put a $$ figure on this rifle to help his mom with cash. Can anyone take a look at this and help me put a value on it? I'd appreciate it. I told him this group would know a lot more than me. Looking for honesty.

It's a 270, Leupold 4-12 VARI-XII, it's not in perfect condition but I would say in great shape with normal wear.

It’s a commercial Mauser so we will need to see who made it/imported it. Flip it over and look at the other side of receiver. The stock and jeweling on the extractor are also not original, so someone has done work on it at some point

The stock is gorgeous.

Is the wrist of the stock cracked?

It was a custom build. I'll get more good photos on this for everyone to see.

No, actually that was the light that made it look like that. Just uploaded more photos. NO CRACKS, LOL.

Thank you, I really like the wood too. Hopefully someone can help with estimating...

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I’d love to hear the stories it could tell.

Have you taken it apart to see if any marks are on the bottom of the barrel or action?

No #'s on outside or inside whatsoever. My other buddy told me that there should be a # somewhere but we couldn't find anything.

"custom" Mausers can be a crap shoot quality wise. Anybody from Jim Bob with a pipe wrench and vise up to your top tier smiths have built them. So, without some documentation on the build or knowing who did the work its value is primarily as a shooter. I'd say $600-$700 with scope if it functions correctly and shoots decent.

Not a whole lot of people seem to be interested in shooting or working on Mausers these days.

That is all just my opinion though. Have bought and sold a few of them over the years.

To me, it looks like a Zastava commercial Mauser action. They were imported by Interarms (among others) and were "gunsmith specials". Some were really good, some were not. So the value of these is not very high.

Here is a pic of a comparable rifle on Gunbroker

I agree with chalets evaluation, based on what little of the rifle we can see.

$500 as is. $600 after shooting to determine accuracy.

Yep