Last year I picked up an original 8mm German Mauser "Factory", stepped barrel, double rear sight ( one folds down behind the other".

My question is; what is the yardage range for the fixed sight and yardaage for the folding. My thoughts were 100 and 200 respectively. Also this gun has a cheeck piece and metal butt plate, fixed sling swivels and all proof marks, shcnoble front end and double triggers.

The gun shoots well, all mechnicals work great and when the set trigger is pulled, my trigger pull on the front trigger is less than 1 pound, it has a pull adjustment screw to stiffen the trigger, but for accuracy I like it the way it is.

Can you tell me more about this rifle? In the attacment the rifle on the right is similar to mine.
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Thanks

The long and short of it is, you will have to test to find the range at which the sights will be on zero. What you are describing are Express sights - and these usually have been set up specifically per customer specifications. As part of this, the sights must have been regulated for a specific load. As you will be using a different load (obviously).....the sights are unlikely to be spot on with any commercially-loaded cartridge. To achieve a true zero, you will likely need to work up a load that is as close as possible, then file the sights to match the load.

As for information about your rifle, you have not provided enough specific data in order to be able to narrow it down. All that can be said is that your rifle is likely a "guild" rifle, produced at or (probably) nearby the Mauser works....in the 1920's or 1930's....as a hunting rifle for a specific client. There were a number of small gunsmiths, making custom sporting weapons, located near the Mauser works in Oberndorf. These constituted the "guild". It is possible that your rifle was actually made at the Mauser works, then modified by a guild 'smith....or actually assembled from factory parts and modified/ finished by a guild 'smith....or even that the receiver of your rifle came from an earlier-produced rifle....and was simply modified and fitted-out by a guild 'smith. Impossible to know for sure, without more information, it is.