I am with ya. On the 30/40 krag. My one uncle always hunted with a
Krag. When he passed away a family friend got it some how. Now I am trying to
Contact him to see if he will part with it.

8mm
 

This is going to be this yrs.deer getter
1956 Lacoruna scout

I would guess you have to email a Mod?

Back in 1970 my brother got a 98 8mm mauser surplus to hunt with. He was still in high school and a store had a barrel full of them, litterally selling them dirt cheap. I sneaked it out of his bedroom and took it home with me to sporterize for him for his birthday. I bought a Fagen semi inletted stock blank and went to work. Wgen they say semi inletted, they mean it, I had to go to work with gouges and lathe tools and I got it inletted well. I went a little deeper in the critical spots because I was going to glass bed the barreled action when I had the gun finished. I stripped off the blueing and the metal sleeves on the stepped barrel and reblued the barrel myself using a cold blueing. I plugged the muzzle and chamber and put the barreled action in a chicken feed trough on top of the stove over two burners filled with water and boilled the thing and it flashed dry when removed from the hot water. I put the bluring on with cotton balls and when dry it went back in the water for another round. I did this about 20 time. When I had a good deep blue I rubbed the barreled action lightly with 000 steel wool and repeaded the blueing sequence and light rubbing till I had a deep shiney finish. I then sanded and applied about 15 coats of Birchwood casey True oil with my finger tips, when dry I rubbed it down with 000 steel wool between each coat. The coat numbers do not count the the ones I put on to seal the wood by putting on heavy coats and sanding it down. I had the bolt handle bent down and chromed by a gun smith. I then glass bedded the barreled action with accu glass and had it checked for head space by a gun smith. I put it back in his closet in his bed room close to his birthday and on his birthday I asked him if I could take a look at his surplus mauser. When He came from his bedroom he had a priceless look on his face and said his gun was gone and he had no idea whose gun he was holding. Believe it or not, the thing is a tack driver and he is still using it and the finish is still as good as ever which surprises me since that was my first attempt to sporterize a gun, and the last I will add. Some pics

Great story! And by the way, you did a fine job.

I have used a Finnish M28 in 7.62x54R for hogs. The 203 grain bullets are quite effective on big old boar hogs.

Very nice guys carry on

Beautiful '98 Mausers!! The Cadillac of the Mauser series and my favorite military rifle. I never owned one in 8mm but I had one that had a 30-06 barrel on it. I traded it for something else way back when, I still have a 7MM. I use one of the Mark X's in 30-06 for deer at longer ranges.

Great looking guns! A lot of work went into refinishing and restocking, you did it well.

Here's the 7point with the .30-40krag. Not a great picture of the rifle. It came from my grandpa in pretty rough condition. When the extra money is available I'd like to have it redone with a nicer stock and have the blueing done.
-Jake

Any body have a 7.7+58 arisaka.mod 99
I like the cal. The one I have has been sporterized.