Velo Dog
AH legend
Hi Pheroze,
I've only seen a couple of them in Africa.
"Zastava" marked rifles and/or actions rarely seem to show up here in Alaska for some reason but, my impression of them is that they are reasonably well engineered M98s for the affordable price they reportedly sell for.
Seems like perhaps the Remington Model 798 was a Zastava built action (perhaps the whole rifle ?) but of course marked "Remington" and those were available in Alaska for awhile at places like Wall Mart, Sportsman's Warehouse, etc.
They appeared to be OK, if not just a little rough (easy remedy for that is to shoot it a lot, heh, heh).
It is possible that Zastava actions are/were made in Yugoslavia, otherwise under the trade name of "Mark X" ?
They do appear to be about the same action as the Mark X, and I have owned more than one or two Mark X rifles.
They were a little roughly finished, compared to something like the excellent 1950's era FN Commercial M98 Action but, looked to be OK otherwise.
Speaking of Yugoslavian Mausers, their old Model 48 Military (maybe adopted by the Yugo Army in 1948 ?) surplus infantry rifle, is actually a Model 98 and currently available quite inexpensively in N. America, I guess due to large numbers having arrived here over the past ten or so years (probably replaced by the AK-47 or some variant now).
Those appear to be a reasonably decent M98 action for building a hunting rifle on, without spending a fortune on the action before any work begins.
Cheers,
Velo Dog.
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