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Speaking of bent bolts...do FR8s use a standard 8mm bolt or were they modified/made from scratch for 7.62x51?
Looking at the rim dimensions they seem really close so I'm wondering if there's anything other than headspacing stopping me from grabbing a bent bolt out of an old piece of shit Czech or Turkish gun and slapping it into my FR8.
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Bolts are the same. Except for the rear sight and magazine, everything from the receiver rearwards is unchanged from the original. Most were converted from Spanish M43 rifles, but some were converted from Spanish M44 rifles, Polish rifles (whatever the M44's were patterned off of), Czech rifles (I forget which model), and German Gewher 98M rifles. All were originally 7.92X57. As long as you make sure that headspace is correct, any bolt that will interchange with a standard Mauser 98 bolt should work. IIRC, there are some Mauser 98 variants that are not totally compatible with the rest, and obviously non-98s are a no-go.