This is the rifle I used for a season hunting elk in the Lolo country of Idaho. I actually took a moose with it. That was before I got my latest Krag. Paul put this one together from gun show and yard-sale pieces. It now has a really nice Leupold 1.5 power scope. He got a whitetail doe with it a couple days ago - a head shot. He was using his elk loads, a very stiff load of 4895 and a 220 gr Sierra Gameking.paul_mex_2015.jpgpauls_mauser.jpg
This one I think has a German action. His other 8 is a Turk. He has dropped back to the 8x57 from the 35 Whelen he had built up on - guess what? - an M98 action.
My own feeling is the 8x57 is a great round. I'd love to have a Norwegian Krag rebarreled to that caliber,
jn