Israeli SP66: A Modern Mauser Sniper
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- Around 1980, Israeli purchased a batch of modern Mauser SP66 precision rifles to supplement or replace their stocks of M14 and Mauser K98k sniper rifles. This new rifle was based on the Mauser 66 sporting rifle action, and had been developed by Mauser in the 1970s to meet the new demand for serious snipers’ rifles for the new modern counter-terrorism agencies like GSG-9. It offered features like an adjustable cheek rest, magnificent trigger, and excellent mechanical accuracy. The IDF equipped them with a variety of different optics including Kahles, Nimrod (both 6x and 10x), and Swarovski. They were eventually replaced by newer Mauser SP86 rifles, and surplussed out, to be purchased mostly by Springfield Armory and imported into the US.
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This looks like a gun rendition of a cozy winter cabin.
Interesting way to say it. Perhaps the way the wood was done?
Perhaps the entire aesthetic. Cozy winter cabin with some tinnitus lmao
Probably feels like it too
Ironic since it rarely snows in Israel
For those like myself who were wondering.
Final prices include buyers premium: $7,380.00
All that beauty for the price of a cheap car, what a bargin.
Thanks,
Been looking for the hammer price on it......
I think that was probably a good deal....
An unscoped Mauser 66 hunting/sporting rifle (same system) would have costed from 848 DM upwards in Germany that would have been 223 of that times Dollars or 1559 of todays Dollars.
@@extramild1 not that cheap
@@extramild1 cheap cars are cheaper then that
For most people that's average I'd say
The Scope is a 6x42 Kahles (ZF 84)
MORE UP VOTES! Relevant information should be know instead of a meme!
I have been fortunate enough to fire one of these and they are an absolutely superb rifle. The weight of the fore-end of the stock manages recoil particularly well and gives superb follow through. It was a premier sniper rifle in its day.
Good god that's a beautiful rifle.
My girlfriend shakes her head every time when I'm watching a FW video and I respond to the opening with "Hi Ian!" and wave at the screen like a child.
Take her shopping and she will forgive you.
the joke here is that this guy claims to have a girlfriend lmao
You need a new girlfriend...
Ian: *I CAN'T HEEEAR YOOOOOU*
nathan fagan, adorable
Meanwhile in 80s Finland: "Let's use antique leftover Mosins to make sniper rifles."
refering to this bad boy
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@@tuomopoika I'm betting that Valmet made rather good barrels for these... do you know anything about their performance? At least they're not shooting them at teenagers who throw rocks...
God, I love guns with wooden furniture.
yes....but a park bench?
Never seen one before, very cool
More furniture than my living room - .308 gets the job done right👍
is .300 win mag worth the rarity tax?
The best sniper round is obviously Umarex 4.5mm.
The reticle is called a ‘103’ reticle and is also used by the Singapore Armed Forces in the Steyr SSG-69 P1. It can be found as an option in the catalog for the Kahles ZF series rifle scope available online. I have a strong suspicion that this optic shown in the video is made by Photonic, which one of the producers of the ZF series scopes.
I enjoyed the video thoroughly as a sniper rifle enthusiast, not many people know about this rifle and resources on it are hard to come by.
Man, Classic front and Modern stock
I really can't understand the rifle
joe jitsu *ya better stop this fuckshit rn*
A friend and I were just talking about this rifle the other day but we could not remember the name of it. Gun Jesus knows all.
No, no you didnt.
The original weapon was the Scharfschützengewehr Mod. 86 made in 1939 from Mauser. The rifle was designed in part by Otto Repa and was one of their few prestiged works of weapon design. Both companies are still in existence today.
From the trigger guard back, the stock looks like a late 70s Anschutz 4013 Olympic Free rifle, which if the designer was a target rifle shooter in Germany at the time he would have been very familiar with. Note the almost identical thumbhole and spring loaded cheekpiece
Got the same distinctive adjustable but plate on my Target rifle. Found it in a box of parts at my local gun shop back in the early 90's and fitted it myself. Really like it.
7:22 Huh, I was wondering where the magazine was hiding. Doesn't look comfortable to reload, but it's a sniper rifle so that's probably not important.
I'm surprised that the gun says "Made in Germany" instead of "Made in West Germany."
John Galt West Germany didn’t call itself West Germany. The official name was (and still is) officially called the Bundesrepublik Deutschland (meaning Federal Republic of Germany). East Germany was officially the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (German Democratic Republic) and was not recognized by West Germany as legitimate. West Germany considered East Germany to be an illegitimate puppet state that had no rightful claim to rule any part of the divided Germany. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer claimed that West Germany had the exclusive legitimate mandate to govern the whole of Germany in 1949. That policy lasted until 1973, when the West German Government recognized the GDR as being, if not a legally legitimate government, at least a de facto government in East Germany.
I certainly do remember a bunch of West German products marked as such back in the day. My guess would be that “Made in Germany” mark was added at the time the guns were imported to the US. At that time the Germany was united, and in fact what would be the purpose of stamping where the gun was made in the first place, in English on top of it? The grunt carrying the rifle wouldn’t care, the company producing it wouldn’t care much either I believe, it’s ATF that cared about such details.
cocotoni1977 Good point. Hadn’t thought about that.
@@impulseburst2367 ,.....nice and accurate history lesson, but the original comment still stands. Post-War and prior to 1989, West German goods were typically marked "West-Germany" and the return to labeling goods "Germany" really gained traction again after 1989.
I have a collection of lenses from the late 60's to early 70's that have 'west germany' engraved on the barrels so that's definitely a thing
Israel buying Mausers from Germany and Germany buying Uzis from Israel. One of the greatest ironies in history.
What's ironic about it? Israel got money from selling their Uzis, on the other hand Germany gave Israel submarines for free.
@@FantadiRienzo many Jewish folks were killed by Mauser guns back in the day so
After WWII they got Messerschmitt airplanes while Arabs had Spitfire planes.
@@StevenL00 You know that WW2 is over right?
@@phillycheesetake i was just answering that guy's question what do you even mean lol
Love the M66 , only problem I know of was the stocks were made to well and the slightest bit of swelling used to bind up the telescopic bolt, have had to trim a few over the years.
Were quite popular here for Highland deer stalking.
I really didn't know Mauser still existed at that time (Now I googled it, they do to this day)
For some reason I always assumed Mauser was dissolved after WWII and some of their employees founded H&K.
Apparently they were ALMOST completely dissolved and managed to somewhat rebuild.
Weird
The wood stock reminds me of the old Anschütz rifles we used in my high school rifle team. Probably why I like the looks of it.
It looks like for CQB you could actually swing it in the bad guy's face and it's so massive and heavy either end should knock them off just fine
You could probably bludgeon a suspect into compliance with this rifle and not even lose the zero.
one good baseball swing to the side of the head would probably do it.
That really is a pretty gorgeous looking rifle...
Awesome Mauser Israeli sniper rifle Ian. Thanks for showing it Sir
The muzzle brake is so German, i love it.
Ian, making this a great morning!
The stock of that rifle reminds me a LOT of the Walther KKM UIT Supermatch .22"LR match rifle (I owned one for a few years). Lovely bit of kit :)
Ian saw FW and IN videos on Amazon Prime...excellent move.
If the wa 2000 and awm had a baby
WAWM-2000
Quite a sexy looking weapon I must say, I would love to see Ian and Karl do a side by side between one of these and a WA-2000, Seems they were both designed for the same specific purpose would be cool to see if any of them is better than the other.
For far competition it would have to be at 500+ meters and the WA2000 would still probably win by nothing else if it's semiautomatic action and larger capacity.
@toeff7852 well yes actually. If you're able to accurately engage multiple targets at once and at not have to worry about reloading then I don't think it's a stretch to say that you would be a more effective sniper
@toeff7852 no their not and the type of sniping to which you are referring is preformed (rather annoyingly) by a drone and a hellfire. Today's sniper is most often engaging multiple targets in a convoy or who are assaulting a position. You're argument about bolt guns would've be valid 30+ years ago, it is not today. And before you bring up "well the WA2000 is 30 years old" it is also a purpose built sniper rifle. It will win. Unless we are going to measure down to the millimeter and using accuracy as the single gold standard for winning the WA will win by a mile. It holds more ammo, it fires faster, it reloads faster, it is lighter (by several pounds mind you) it is using a much newer system designed specifically for accuracy. The difference between a .25 and a .05 MOA rifle is that if you found some magic gun powder that gave you infinite range then you could hit a nickle on the moon. Impressive? Yes, practical? No, not really.
@toeff7852 also Ian makes clear that this is an IDF rifle. If it was used by police forces that was a grandfather in or unofficial.
@toeff7852 bud your simply wrong and it's clear by the fact that you haven't been able to rebuff any of what I've said. The WA2000 would win. There is no question, there is no argument, there is no discussion. An Inrangetv test of the rifles would be to determine which weapon is more combat or competition effective, not which rifle is more mechanically more accurate. The only, singular reason that bolt guns are used in military service as sniping weapons today is because of range. An auto cycling weapon has to take some of the energy away from the bullet in order to run it's action and thus reduces it's over all velocity and range. That's it, they serve no other purpose. Oh and this two ways of waging war thing? Yeah everything nation that can just bomb somebody is. Doesn't mean it's more effective, just means that they don't have to risk the lives of thier country men.
Are we sure it wasn't made by Jakobs?
Na its a tedior
Very unique bolt release mechanism Ian. It obviates the need to remove the scope and risk messing up the zero.
Oooo, Pretty! I have a Birthday coming up in May and this would be Such a Nice Gift to receive! 😁
The bidding is currently at 4000$, which is at the low end of Morphy's estimate...
That trigger pull though.
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Look at that stock, beautiful. . .
i love when you break out the hand made sniper chair always loved multi use furniture
Thank you , Ian .
Gorgeous looking gun! Never heard of them either. Cheers Ian 👍
And for once, legal over here!
51WCDodge always a bonus!
That is one beautiful rifle.
"Special Ball", the M118 and the improved M118LR are designated as sniper ammo, not "match" any longer. The current issue match ammo is M852, which was derived from the original "M118 Match" in the '70s. M118 started off being made for the M40 and XM21, and used bullets from the .30-06 M72 Match round, which were made in-house at Lake City. M852 uses the Sierra 168 gr MatchKing bullet, is marked "Match only, not for combat use" on the box and has tactile marks around the head end of the case to facilitate differentiation from "combat" ammo in the dark. This was done because of JHP projectiles being a no-no under Hague and Geneva. This was resolved when the match type JHP bullets were approved for combat use in the '90s. With the ascendance of ARs in the Hi-Power discipline, M852's days are numbered.
About that time, M118 had become degraded due to Lake City switching from match-grade brass and primers to ball-grade brass and staked-in machine gun primers. The bullet quality was also suffering due to wear on the forming dies, with weights varying from 172 to 175 grains. M118LR was developed by going back to match brass and friction-fit match primers and the selection of a replacement bullet. The Sierra MK 168 was tried but didn't work out because of the boat-tail's geometry; a deal was made with Sierra that resulted in the design of the 175 gr MK which coincidentally has the same boattail as the original 180 MK. The powder was originally H4895, but that's being tweaked by the new contract loader, Federal. In fact the round now has Gold Match components, including the new, as yet unannounced powder.
Sniper's Hide has an extensive article regarding M118LR.
Funny you said the schlegelmilch 1896 rifle was the only real competition to the Mauser 98....then Mauser builds a rifle VERY REMINISCENT of it. Interesting. Awesome video as always...can’t get enough Ian....I remember back when you just had the website and I’d drool over all the weapons there....amazing you made a career of it...
Thank you, I thought it was just my imagination. The bolt shroud, the bolt catch being released by the trigger instead of the side-mounted lever on the 98s...immediately thought of that Schlegelmilch variant, too.
"Schlegelmilch "🤪
The action/bolt seems very similar to the Schlegemich 1896 you just did a video on. Interesting Mauser would adopt design elements of a rifle they once competed against.
How did you comment 3 weeks ago?
@@dylanbyrne9591 Patreon has a tier for early access viewing.
@@dylanbyrne9591 Maybe patreon donor?
As long as they dont have to pay....
Copying is supposed to be the sincerest form of flattery. The Schlegemich was ahead of the metalurgy and manufacturing at the time.
Gorgeous!
Beautiful rifle!
What a gorgeous rifle.
Ian the Mauser 66 grandfather is the Schegelmilch Spandau rifle you had a little while ago, Telescopic bolt. System rifle the 66 is , swap barrel system. Blaser 93 and R8 is new model. Look up Walther Gehmann also.
The Mauser 66 is totally not like the Blaser R93 or R8 ;) Also, the Predecessor to the R93 is the SR830 and the SR850, both made by Horst Blaser. The Mauser 66 is by Walther Gehmann. They almost have nothing in common.
The magazine setup, telescopic bolt. Gehmann added the scopemount on barrel and takedown pattern. Blaser borrowed the details and moved forward with it .
It was not a muzzle brake but only a flash hider with a mirage band holder, the concept of muzzle brake will be invented in the UK in the late 80's by Armalon Ltd
I love that precision target stock
Very cool rifle.
This looks so 80's
It’s absolutely gorgeous.
Beautiful.
Beautiful rifle.
Awesome!
The heavy wood stock is also key for keeping on target.
That cheek pad is perfect when you show up to the conflict and need a place to park your Buick.
Now we have the new Dan rifle in .338 lapua, and of course the Galatz SR-99, which is the sniper variant of the Galil
The Mauser 66 System was widely intended to ba the new 98system for hunting rifles. But it flopped, because of the very loud safety switch and teleskopic loading system.
The Developers Name was Walther Gehmann. He was one big Name in the German Shooting Sports Scene after WWII. There is still a Store in Karlsruhe carrying his name. Gehmann did some other Guns and Calibers too. Today Otto Repa is regarded as the one Mauser 66 Specialist in Germany. They're still often seen as Hunting Rifles.
That's why the stock is based on the Anschutz Supermatch stock then. And Gehmann is most known for target sight components, irises etc.
@@JohnSmith-dt1tw The Anschütz 54 is also by Gehmann
@@StachiBCNR33 wasn't aware of that, interesting to know!
As I recall, Herr Gehmann won the 300 m free rifle competition in the 1936 Olympics using a special Mauser rifle in 7x57 (yea!). The score stood for many years. He was behind the M66 design. It's a very handy hunting rifle because quick change barrel (and calibre) feature, allowing the owner to in effect have several rifles with only one registeration. Mauser offered cased sets with an action and several different barrel/scope combinations.
@@randyallen2771 I've heard of people shooting 300m matches with 7mm Rem Mag! These are 60 shot matches too! I'm impressed by how many things Herr Gehmann has worked on though. They have a brief biography on their website that's worth a read
I hope we get a new final prices video soon.
Fantastic rifle.
aesthetically the gun is gorgeous
wow nice rifle! and on Palm Sunday... 😎
Interesting rifle.
So cool
This is such a wholesome channel. I repectnour carefully you chose your words about the pllice in whk responded to the olympic hostage situation as not do come across as disrespectful. Youre a real gentleman and have a great vocabulary to boot. Always very in depth content. Thanks!
I do have a fondness for a nicely-figured wood stock.
Anyone else notice that the bolt group and receiver are very similar to that Schlegelmilch 1896 trials rifle that was on the channel recently? Bolt shroud, bolt catch released by the trigger, etc...?
The SP66 looks like it would be an easy gun to shoot, especially from a recoil perspective. I wouldn't want to try and fire it from a standing free-hold position. But prone and bipod it looks fun.
Also, it just looks nice.
This was uploaded on my birthday
Thank you GunJesus, very cool
Please do a show on optics!
God, that is beautiful. I love old school, wooden stocked, bolt action rifles over the polymer and plastic stocked guns we see a lot of today. I would reach for a Kar98k waaaayyyy before I would reach for a L118. Going off of looks alone.
Tl;dr
I like the wood.
7:36 Well somebody had seen a schlegemilch
"They have a number of advantages over the Mauser 98 design". Well, yes and no. The Model 66 was Mauser's attempt to come up with something 'new', and it's certainly that. But it's entirely debatable whether the design is a 'better' bolt action for military/sniper purposes. The action on the 66 is certainly shorter, and certainly innovative from a design perspective, but probably not as robust or as reliable as the older 98, features that are highly desirable in a military rifle. For example, the 66, while being 'neat', doesn't incorporate the ejection/extraction system of the 98 which even today is unequaled in bolt action designs.
I have a Mauser 66 with a .243 barrel on it. Would love to find a .308 barrel to swap out (they’re built to easily swap different caliber barrels depending on your bolt type).
Mine says ‘Made in West Germany’ still. Beautiful rifle.
The stock reminds me of Vostok Ural Match rifle stocks.
I guessed its weight almost perfectly. "Looks like it weighs 14 fuckin pounds."
Ian it would be really neat if you did a video on the GOL-Sniper Magnum, if you ever come across
A colleague of mine has one and let me shoot it. Most amazing trigger ever!
That thing is awesome. But the added pic rail is pretty cringey. Doing something like that to a rifle like this is like using an Indian head nickle in a coke machine to buy a soda
its cringey? really
Honestly I feel like the picatinny rail is gonna feel like a blessing in disguise for the next owner. It's not the kind of thing you'd probably want to do yourself for fear of ruining the rifle, but its nice to have.
Love to know where you’re getting cokes for a nickel. :p
@@proteinaggie 1957
I have a m12 300 win mag they STILL make good rifals
Looks more like a targetshooting sportsrifle.
BDS suppose as that gains momentum the option to buy stuff like this will close up
Thanks...
Nice gun 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Great !
I bet that thing melts into your grip. It looks phenomenally comfortable.
Looks like a Mauser -Anschutz hybrid.
Mauser were also building very good match rifles at that period in time. It looks like they simply added a three round mag and a muzzle break to the then current 300m Free Rifle. Mauser were using the 66 action for that anyway. I have a friend who used to shoot 300m back then, she used one in a standard rifle configuration alongside Sarah Cooper in the GB Team.
So the magazine is directly over the trigger. Bet there some kraut space magic involved.
Looks like it's a great hunting rifle. If I had more money and my father was younger it would make a fantastic gift to him.
You think that the way the Bolt & rear piece come off it's made to be switched with a left hand bolt in rear piece
Is the stock of single piece of wood or laminated ? You'd think that a laminated stock would be even more resistant to changes caused by humidity and temperature
hello Ian, first of all let me confratulate you for the TH-cam Chanel. it's great, me and my dead Just enjoy a Lot! being colectors we got our hands in a CZ made 98K that was bought by the Brazilian Air force. can you comment or make a video about It? thank you
1 minute in and I'm getting a lotta wood.
I wonder if the Mauser company is still kicking.. as it would be nice to have such a company with so much history still running to this day. Like colt or the other guys.
They rebranded to SIG Sauer!
The only country i know to keep their traditional names for their gun manufactures is Russia....
i just realized why Ian doesn't care for thumbhole stocks...
So this is a particular rare combination of several different unobtainiums, I bet it sells for more than $25,000.
I'm in love with that riffle...
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