( 5 out of 5) I Love It

by Matthew from Gainesville, FL on June 3, 2019

When i first opened the case I thought hum, looks a little better than I was expecting. Looking over it I could see I was going to need to spend some quality time removing spots of rust and general cleaning. I then noticed that the all the serial numbers matched... bolt, stock and barrel so I was even more pleased. I also noticed the cleaning rod was in place and both the sites were complete front site was NOT missing its hood. I then checked the sliding action of the rear site which worked as it should. The stock finish was not the greatest but had zero cracks and no wood had ever been repaired.



So, I was thinking wow there is absolutely nothing bad to say about this 60ish year old rifle... then I took out the bolt and looked down the barrel and was thinking ah [email protected]#$. So I started cleaning the barrel for literally and hour and was not making much progress. I thought to google something to the affect of how to clean really bad rifle barrels and found a video that showed a guy who cut up a scouring pad the silver looking kind that are big.. you would use on a cast iron pan anyhow, he cut strands from it and wrapped those strands around a bore brush. He then put some oil on the brush and ran it back and forth....... holy cow if that did not work like a gem. Ok, not so crazy running it back and forth instead of the one direction but it cleaned it up in a matter of minutes and the bore now looks great.



Now that it was clean and i felt safe shooting my M48A I took it to the range. It was the last weapon I shot that day and a storm was about to hit so I shot five quick shots at 50 yards and had three at 10 O'clock high and the other two within the bullseye ring. I really can't give a clear picture of how well it shoots until I go back and take my time and shoot at least a box through it. The fact I was able to clean the barrel. Rifling is good by the way. The stock had not been damaged at all, and that all the serial numbers match made this a fantastic buy in my eyes.



I may have just gotten really lucky with the one I bought but reading other reviews as a whole they really are a very nice older rifle.