Looks like it could be. The neck is much fatter than the 6.5 Swede

 

Maybe war bring-home Mausers are the gun dujour for serial# tracking reasons.

 

Looks 8x57 to me as well

 

..yep, very powerful cartridge, right up there with the /06....

 

Looks like 8mm Mauser. I own one and they shoot 196 gr bullets. At least that`s what I shoot.

 

So if it was an 8mm Mauser what’s the over/under on him choosing to shoot “Nazis” with a nazi gun?

 

Nevermind, went over to Snipers Hide and a Dallas Ice thread was the first one, halfway down had the rifle in a picture I cannot post here. Definitely a K98 in 8mm though looks like it was Czech rather than German.

Definitely a copy cat though as what are the odds two people in less than a month choose to use a Mauser to shoot people?

 

And from a roof with writing on the casings?

 

Looks like 8mm Mauser. I own one and they shoot 196 gr bullets. At least that`s what I shoot.

So if it was an 8mm Mauser

And from a roof with writing on the casings?

Yep! Most unusual. You have to wonder if they read the same book.

 

That would be my guess.

 

Still awaiting the pic of the rifle used in Kirk's assination. The pic shown on the internet does not jive with what the FBI described- wood stock, not a take-down. If the bullet fragmented from hitting a protective vest, how can you claim the bullet came from that rifle without enough bullet to examine rifling engraving marks?
Also, doesn't anyone lock doors to roof access- just from a liability standpoint it seems like a no-brainer to me, but apparently brains are in short supply these days.

 

FBI never said wood stock, they said it was a Mauser in 30-06.

The also never claimed it was a take down, there’s only two screws holding the stock to the action and they can be broken down and re assembled in less than a minute.

Bullet didn’t hit a vest, it was most likely something light like a 125gr or 150gr bullet at high velocity that fragmented on impact and the pieces followed the spines. I’ve had it happen with deer and there is historical precedent as MLK had the same thing happen when he was killed with a 30-06 out of a Remington 760.

As for how they know it was that rifle, it was found stashed in a small wooded area with a fired round in the camber less than 300 yards from where the assassin jumped off the roof, in the direction that he ran with the rifle as seen on campus security camera and the direction he was seen coming from on the local ring camera without the rifle in his possession. Additionally if I understand correctly it was found by the dogs who were following the shooters path from where he jumped off the roof.

 

Rooftop access is always locked. Somebody let him up there

 

Always? I find that hard to believe. Or he simply broke the lock to access the roof. Not unheard of.

 

I own a Yugoslav Mauser. I guarantee you that ammo was 8mm. I have a bunch of those same strippers.

 

The press statement said it was recently legally obtained.

 

Just saw this:

Anti-ICE shooter Joshua Jahn used Nazi battle rifle in deadly Dallas attack: experts

The gun that was used in the deadly shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas on Wednesday was a Nazi battle rifle, The Post has learned — similar to the one used to kill conservative activist Charlie …

nypost.com

 

It's bad enough that ar 15 's get labeled as "assault rifles" by the media,now they're going to be calling bolt action rifles "Nazi battle rifles"

 

"Nazi battle rife" = Yugoslavian M48

 

This just in.....Nazi battle rifle used to kill helpless whitetail deer! And a few Mule deer! The occasional bear. And illegally shooting a chipmunk.

 

Ironically, my Mauser is an M48 as well, an M48A actually, with a stamped metal floorplate.