Many people on this form have stated that the persians are very accurate. This year I attended the Camp Perry matches for the first time. In the vintage class I fired the best score of my life with a 98/27 persian 282 5x out of a possible 300. Slow prone went very until the 9th shot that was pulled low into the 9 ring for a 99 3x. Rapid prone was not as good but was my personal best with this rifle 96 2x. Off hand, well it's something I need to work on 87 0x. Hornady's new 8x57mm JS match ammunition was fired. This ammunition does produce some recoil as it is pushing a 196 grain BTHP at 2500 feet per second but appears to be very accurate. I had never fired this ammunition until the match. The day before leaving for Perry I some how managed to lose 2000 large rifle primers with the Lee priming tool. I arrived at Camp Perry with 40 rounds of world war II German ball ammunition. Fortunately the CMP was selling 8mm match ammunition. In the end I placed 15th out of 421 entries and was the high "other mauser" shooter. The top 14 shooters shot 3 US m1917s, 5 Swedish mausers, 5 Swiss straight pulls and one very skilled Krag rifle shooter. This was a very enjoyable first trip to Perry.

awesome! my 98/29 is spot on with that yugo M75 stuff. they are nice rifles

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usukz 28--Great shooting! Placing that well with a new-to-you rifle illustrates it is not the gun, but the shooter.

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I knew the rifle was accurate but had no idea that it could perform this well in competition. This Persian has not been modified with a trigger job or in any other way. It has only been cleaned and fired. The quality of these old rifles is quite amazing.

From working in the mideast those rifles are legendary and held in very high esteem.They are often passed down from father to son for many generations. They have stories about them,. and even songs!

Our boys with the Stoner inspired M-16, now M-4 variants..pop them dweebs at 400 yards while them mujadeen fellers sit out at 1500 meters with old mausers like yours.

They do tend to flee when the snipers with 50 cal's show up. Just sayin!

I have many of those old rifles..and the legends are true..its very accurate.