Posted: 9/14/2008 8:13:46 PM EDT
 started with this
then re-barrelled to .308 
some metal work more polishing to come 
stock blank Bastogne walnut and ebony wood for the foreend and grip cap 
inleting 
bottom metal inleting 
grip cap set 
forend attached 
I started this because I had too I do not like taking military arms and turning them over to sporting rifles Before working on this project I have never done any kind of metal or wood working 
I still need to shape the stock and finish it..I am also making the screws for it..... oh and glass + pillar bedding to be done also a fiberglass stock for the same rifle is also in the works so what do you all think UPDATE finished my fiberglass stock I built two stocks for my .308 a wood one almost done...and this fiberglass.... 
and the metal still needs to be blued |
I like sporting rifles that start as sporting rifles but I have to do this for school..I would much rather start with a virgin receiver but we could not do that with this project....and it is a major part of our grade for 4 classes |
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Look very nice, but you are still going to hell for it! If you want a sporting look, why not just buy a Remington / Savage / Winchester and leave the old crusty arbitrer of deaths alone? I am buying a Mauser and an Enfield first thing on my day off before "let's sporterize a perfectly good military surplus rifle" crowd get their filthy paws on all of them. 
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Sporterize them all, man.  OK, maybe there's a place for military memorabilia and collectors' pieces but really, sporterizing a Mauser is not a crime. My first deer season I carried a sporterized 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser. My uncle's favorite deer rifle to this day is a sporterized 6.5x55 with a Mannlicher stock. His rifle is cut down to 18" or so and is a really nice rifle to carry. It's accurate and the cartridge itself is practically ideal for PA whitetails. The prior generation - my great uncles - all have sporterized 8mm Mausers. Those old dudes have killed a metric shot ton of deer, both legal and otherwise. I can appreciate some military nostalgia, but give the man a break. It's required for school and it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do anyways. I'd love to do the same thing. |
I can't think of a good reason not to sporterize a Yugo Mauser. There is no historical or collector value to them and there never will be. The Mauser action makes an excellent sporting arm though. |
Ehh... The 24/47's may. I could be mistaken, but I seem to remember reading that they're actually pre-war FN produced rifles that were captured by the Yugos after the war and rearsenaled. The M48's, however, were entirely post-war made guns, built in Yugoslavia, and probably don't have much historic value. |
You trying to steal my thunder??? www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=6&f=19&t=253796 I put mine in the refinishing forum 
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yes MSC in Tishomingo, OK more credit hours and lab hrs then most associate degrees, not to mention a lot more money 
couple of dowel rods and wood glue under high compression
GD gets more traffic
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I know I was gonna wait for a finished rifle for the GD thread
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| Looks great! For no good reason I took a 1985 Chilean Mauser in 7mm and inletted a walnut stock for it, so it would accept clamp-on mounts for a scope. In very little time I can change it's appearance from a hunting rifle that would fit in any twenty first century lodge, back to a bayonet-fitted WWI-looking combat arm. |
I have a friend that did that to a couple of ariska's except he rechambered them |
The sporterized Mauser action is like a portfolio for a gunsmith. The amount of work that goes into it is actually quite a lot and shows your many talents |
| Looks like quite the project-I've always wanted to start with an already sporterized 2A Enfield and add a full-length laminate stock and different sights. Problem is, Enfields are getting tough to come by here-gunshow this past weekend had an Ishapore for $250, and a Savage for $450-both in "typical" condition.I'd like to get the host rifle for $100, but I know how unlikely that is. |
the mauser 98's are actually starting to dry up....at east they are getting harder and harder to find for a good price |
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What is the paint on the fiberglass stock? HS precision stock fully glassed in and aluminum pillar bedded, barrel free floated... it is a truck bed liner called Zolatone finished mixture of the colors "Black Black" "Dark Red" "Desert Camo" "Silver Grey" |