The condition is frequently excellent due to a Yugoslavian maintenance program that cleaned and inspected the stored rifles in rotation every 5 years until that nation's breaking up.Īs such, the M48 only saw limited use in the Yugoslav Wars. The rifles are normally sold coated in the protective grease ' cosmoline' which needs to be cleaned out before the rifle is fired. Many rifles are sold with accessories, including bayonet, bayonet scabbard, leather bayonet frog, ammo pouches, cleaning rod, and field cleaning kit. Most M48's that are encountered in the United States and Australia today show only slight wear-usually from storage. Most M48's were put into government storage shortly after they were manufactured. M48's are regarded as a military surplus firearm and can be collected in the USA, Canada and Australia at a generally cheap price due to the numbers recently imported from Europe. They are usually easily identified by the top handguard, which extends behind the rear sight and ends just in front of the receiver ring, although this feature exists on other models as well. The main difference between the M48 and the K98k is that the M48 uses an intermediate-length receiver.
Although similar in general appearance to that of the German rifle, many of the parts of these two rifles are not interchangeable, especially the bolt and related action parts. After World War II, the Yugoslavs took this design and incorporated modifications based upon Germany's Mauser Karabiner 98k. The Zastava M48 is a post World War II Yugoslavian version of the Belgian Fabrique Nationale designed Mauser Model 1924 short rifle which was produced under contract by the "Kingdom of Yugoslavia" beginning in 1928 and ending with the Nazi occupation in 1941. Rear: standard V-notch, adjustable to 2,000 meters in 100 m increments
5-round stripper clip, internal box magazine
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