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  1. Try Liberty Tree Collectors for your missing parts after trying Springfield Sporters. They ain't cheap by any means they just may have what you need though. Frank
  2. Bought one 1937 vz-24 action from a gunsmith buddy almost 40 years ago about time I did something with it. I used to buy junker military rifles for their actions. swede mauser, 1895 chilean mauser,1917 enfield (two winchesters) a moisin, and possible others. Usually if the bbl is beyond hope salvaging you sometimes can cut a deal as a parts rifle. Don't throw anything away. I keep all the unused parts in freezer bags and write what parts they came off of. Case in point, siamese mauser no cartridges available so got it for $100. Sold the stock and all metal for $100 so basically the action was free. Bubba'd rifles also sometimes come up for sale relatively cheap so if its an action make a deal with that in mind. I once paid $50 for a cadet martini actioned rifle. bbl was totally trashed ended up paying $75 for that one. Funny thing about that rifle was the action and wood was in perfect condition. just thebore of the bbl was trashed. I could go on but I think you get the idea. Good actions to look for are persian 8mm, 1909 argentine, my personal favorite vz-24, RC mausers and mausers made before 1943-44 as quality control was slipping badly. Frank
  3. Frank46

    Fn Mauser

    Just a thought, I had one of these some years back and was an excellent shooter. Having said that you just may find that your is too and we all know what that means. Back to the search for another rifle for your project. Have fun, Frank
  4. WhenI lived in New york I had just about given up on finding a decent krag that I could afford. Most were in bad shape except for a few really nice ones. Course the nice ones went for big$$$. Went to a small local show out on Long Island. Nothing there that called out to me. Getting ready to call it a day and spotted a chopped up 1898 Krag rifle. Bore looked decent, stock had a 1900 cartouche, and the rear sight was the later 1901 with the sergants peep. Best price was only $180. So she came home with me. I swear the more I cleaned that rifle the deeper the lands became. Must have spent at least a good solid week cleaning and scrubbing. wasn't casting bullets at the time but at another show bought ten boxes rem 180gr round nosed ammo for 14$ a box. Front sight was a commercial job on a ramp. Bead was hard to see. Had a wedler buddy drop a brass drop of brazing wire on the existing bead and i cleaned it up. Krag would keep most shots within 3" at 100yds. When I get to starting again with cast bullets I expect to do better. Frank
  5. Pretty sure it was in the sporterizing section. I carefully looked at his work and concluded that it would be a workable solution. If you look on the russian target rifles, you will notice that the root of the bolt handle is almost dovetailed into the lug on the right side of the bolt body. That and lowering the right sidewall allowed the bolt handle to clear the sight stem on what looked like a lyman 57 which was mounted on the left side of the receiver. Unfortunatly could not figure out which model 57 sight he used. Frank
  6. There is a gent that goes by the handle "Buckshot" that made up a action wrench such as you need. Go over to castboolits@gunloads.com and get on the castboolits site. You could post this in the military rifles section sooner or later he'll answer your post. He's great at making oddball H&I dies for the lyman luber sizer as well. I do know he made up an action wrench for the krag as I have seen photos of it. And action wrenches for these rifles don't just grow on trees. Hope this helps. Frank
  7. There was a photo on surplusrifles.com. Redid the bolt handle like the russian target rifle and slightly lowered the right sidewall at the rear of the receiver. If I remember right he used a lyman 57 and the way he did it the bolt handle cleared the sight stem easily. Frank
  8. does anyone know where I might be able to buy a persian 8mm barrel. I like to shoot cast bullets and bore condition is extremely important. Thanks, Frank
  9. Hornady also makes a .312 diameter bullet also, actually two bullets. One is a 150grain spire point and the other is a 185 grain round nosed bullet. Hope this helps. Frank
  10. Don, this may sound funny but some years back I bought some argentine FM 7.65x54 sporting ammunition. Figured it would chamber in my '91 argie. Nope, nada and zilch. Lotta head scratching going on. Dug out a military cartridge in the same caliber and there is a difference. So dumped the powder after measuring the weight of the powder charge, resized all 75 cases and trimmed to 7.65x53 reduced the powder charge by 5 grains and reseated the soft points that were origionally loaded. I believe that there was an article in guns and ammo some years back where the author had a argentine mauser in the 53mm length and had tried to load and shoot 54mm length ammo. Said he had talked to the company he got the rifle from. They were aware of the problem but couldn't do anything about it. I make my 7.65x53 cases from some old 1955 Israeli 8mm I bought back before the flood. Since I have a form and trim die in this caliber its not much of a problem to make cases in this caliber. I believe that the writer was using a 1909 argentine mauser at the time. Frank
  11. Actually there is one barrel that you could use that's about 50 to 80 bucks at this time. Try an locate one of the israely 1919a4 308 barrels. The two I have have beautiful bores. they are about 24" long and about 1.250 in diameter. Cut off the chambered section about 2" and this would allow you a steel tube 22" long with a 30 cal bore and make a 300 savage rifle out of your '91. There is aposter on gunboards who is selling swedish rifle barrels in 6.5x55 one is a heavy barrel in the 6.5x55 cartridge cut it down from the muzzle to lets say 24" and away you go. Just a thought. Frank
  12. Jim, thanks for the info. Guess sarco will be getting some phone calls soon, Frank
  13. Dirty jim, where did you get the 7mm madsen bbl, what shape was the bore in and if you do not mind how much did it set you back?. Frank
  14. Seem to remember something like this going on with lee shaver. gent had a rolling block in for work and ended up going through the districk attorney's office or something similar. Had sent registered letters, return receipt requested before he even got a reply. He did have the work completed on his rifle but was still mad because he had to go through all the legal wrangling before he got any results. And this was posted on the graybeard outdoors forums. From what I understand Mr. Shaver no longer does gunsmithing. But I also could be wrong. Frank
  15. On one of the forums I frequent I received a message from a friend in australia. Some of the old timers used to run two screws from the inside of the #4 stock. The ends of the screws would bear upon the buttscokket which would increase pressure against the backside of the trigger housing draws. The amount of tension could be controlled by screwing the screws in or out. Has anyone heard of this and how successful was it? Frank
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