stock and barrel

[mule1028]

I asked this question in another part of the forum and havent gotten any answers yet so I thought that I would try it here.

I have a .308 mauser from WWII, pretty beat up but still shoots well. I am looking into a new stock and barrel for it but dont know what to get. I was wondering what brands of stock and barrel are good, lenght and twist of barrel, synthetic or laminate stock. Not looking to go really cheap, but I dont want to spend a fortune either. anyone that can help I would appriceiate it.

Mule

Dan Lilja, Hart, Shilen, even douglas are all good barrels. If you like laminated, you can get a boyds pretty cheap but does need some fitting. For synthetic, McMillian are the top of the line. But needs alot of fitting. I use H-S but not sure they make em for your gun. The barrels will run you around 200 mark for the cheapest.

[bigbulls]

Boyds makes many different styles to fit a mauser. They have some that need fitting then they also have what they call a VIP (virtual inlett part) stock that should require no inletting at all. If it does it should ve very minor. Walnut and laminated.
BOYDS SITE

As far as barrels go you can get barrels from brownells that are pre threaded and short chambered. All one would need to do is hand ream the chamber to set headspace and torque it on the receiver. This is still best left to a trained gunsmith.

Then you have the barrel blanks that bigcountry listed that would need to be threaded, cut and crowned, chamber reamed and torqued onto the receiver. This will be the more expensive rout but if done right will probably be a better shooter.