How many 93's I have seen rebarreled to 257 Roberts and then loaded to the ragged edge, is beyond my recounting, but let's say it's more than a few. The Mauser 93 and 95 actions possess more than enough strength to handle the 308.7.62 NATO cartridge.

I'll give you six months to find one example.report back here and let us know what you found. I would also like for you to show me a reference in print, that details a Mauser rifle bolt being propelled rearward into the shooters head. Yes, it is wrecked beyond further use at this point, but it doesn't come apart. What does happen is the bolt lugs will set back, locking the action up, requiring a hammer to pound it open. How so? First, when an action very rarely becomes a grenade, launching parts into the stratosphere. While Mauser's 98 design incorporated superior gas deflection and venting, with the addition of a third safety lug, it is not inherently stronger than the previous designs. We don’t have many of these babies and when they are gone, they are gone.You have written for several gunrags.well bully for you! Then we in the audience are to assume that makes you authority? How many various examples of Paul Mauser's have you rebarreled and spent any time with? What empirical evidence do you have to support your claims.or are you simply repeating what you have read? I do not claim to be an expert.much less a 'gun writer', but I have spent many years with hands on experience dealing with practically any sporting arm made. None have wood that does not need repair, so please take note of that! All we have left have cracks or breaks at the tang that will need repair to shoot reliably. It ain’t pretty, but it doesn’t cost much, is repairable and shoots straight and true! Use it as-is or use it as a base to build yourself a nice sporter. We put the broken stock Mausers in the small ring sporter stocks, as-is, and the result is our “West Virginia Special”. We also had a small quantity of small ring Mauser sporting stocks, used, some scratches, dings, etc., and cracked at the tang or heel. So, we have a number of 1916 Mauser rifles, perfect working condition, in 7×57 Mauser (7mm Mauser), that had dirt and rust, some pitting but otherwise work well and had stocks that were hopelessly broken. But hey, at $99, even a rifled action that isn’t rusted through is a good buy these days. Of course, they are in scratch and dent sporter stocks too, so there’s that. Well, all that is history by and large these days.īut, I did see this “deal” over at Old West Scrounger who has some scratch and dent M1916 Spanish Mausers they contend are shootable. Heck, I bought my first CMP M1903 Springfield for $350. 303s for $99, and a good selection of Mausers and Arisakas for $150. When I was first collecting in the early 1990s, you could pick up a Mosin-Nagant for $49, any number of Enfield. In the milsurp C&R game, bolt-action military rifles have been getting more scarce over the years.

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