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.