Considering a 1970's Mauser American Eagle...

[HisSoldier]

I have two 70's Mausers, a 6" barreled .30 that is a safe queen, and a more common 4" barreled 9MM. Both have the P-08 swell at the bottom of the grip. The 9MM I'm shooting regularly, though the grip safety is a terrible imposition that I'm going to try to engineer out. Better no safety at all than that hand pinching nightmare! The way they did it it will not be easy to eliminate it and still have a safety. The LH grip on my 9MM was weird and I had my 'smith redo it (see my earlier posts about that)
Other than that it functions nicely and is very accurate. Reloading for the .30 is the answer, pretty cheap. Starline makes the brass. I use Hornady XTP hollow points at .308 but someone told me that's not correct, that the original bullet at .312 sealed better, so now I'm wondering if I'm 'gas jetting' past the base of the XTP. I shoot those in a Benelli pistol, not the Mauser P-08.