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#22
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: NE Kansas
Posts: 1,101
I enjoy them, but only have two: a Spanish mauser in 8mm and a Mosin Nagant 91/30.
The Mosin is typical. Shoots decently. The Mauser I have not yet fired. Right now, the Mauser is getting a stock repair.
I have payed with some others over the years: a Fnnish variant of the Mosin and a Nagant Revolver. I don't have either now.
The Mosin is typical. Shoots decently. The Mauser I have not yet fired. Right now, the Mauser is getting a stock repair.
I have payed with some others over the years: a Fnnish variant of the Mosin and a Nagant Revolver. I don't have either now.
#24
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Midwest
Posts: 1,079
Father Forkhorn, are you sure the Spanish Mauser is 8MM? Most of them were in 7X57, the Argentine was different but still not 8X57. I certainly am not very knowledgeable about Mausers, but I have not heard of a Spanish Mauser. Make sure before shooting.
#26
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Midwest
Posts: 1,079
I would want to check it out. If it is a small ring Mauser I am not sure that it is strong enough for 8MM ammo, but many were made in 7MM. I think I would want a large ring and '98 action for the 8MM. Hopefully, someone knows and will tell us.
#28
I sportorized an 8mm 98 mauser for my brother in 1971. He bought it 2 years earlier at Boscov's department store where they had barrels of them for 20 bucks. It was my first attempt and it came out pretty nice, I used a semi inletted Fagen stock and semi is the operative word . I glass bedded the barrel and action and reblued the barrel myself by stripping the old bluing and boiling the barreled action on the kitchen stove, then when it flashed dry applied Birchwood casey cold bluing, steel wooled it and boiled and re applied about 20 times. I had the bolt handled chromed and bent and the bold jeweled. I removed the sights and had it drilled and tapped for scope mounts. I did the stock with Birchwood Casey True oil, about 12 coats 0000 steel woole rub between coats. The bluing is as shiney and black today as it was when I did the gun and it shoots very well. here are some pics.
Last edited by Oldtimr; 05-25-2016 at 04:58 PM.
#30
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: NE Kansas
Posts: 1,101
The 1916 and the 1893 came in 7x57. A lot of 1916s were rechambered to 7.62x51 eventually. Here's a good link to the different types of Spanish mausers.
http://milpas.cc/rifles/ZFiles/Spani...AUSERS.wps.htm
Last edited by Father Forkhorn; 05-25-2016 at 07:34 PM.