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Getting 243 To Feed In A 1903 Turk?


Clark

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I am sporterizing a rifle and giving it to the girl of an Iraq vet I have never met.

I have been working every night for 8 days:

 

 

The list of what I have done is:

 

True face of receiver

Center the barrel in the lathe

Change lathe gears for 12TPI

Grind 55 degree thread cutting tool

Cut barrel threads, shoulder, clearance, tenon, and chamfer chamber orifice

Grind trigger hump

Mill off charging hump

Chamfer charging hump

File charging hump

sandpaper charging hump

Drill and Tap for scope mounts

Shorten mount screws

Mill mount for height and offset

Cut off bolt handle

Weld extension on bolt handle

Put extended bolt handle in lathe and smooth out weld in the center

Weld extended bolt handle to body

Mill welded bolt handle

File and sand sharp edges on bolt handle

Blue barrel

Blue Receiver

 

Yet to be done:

 

Get ammo to feed.

Cut down trigger guard width

Blue trigger guard

Mill safety shroud

Blue Shroud

Assemble M70 safety

Broach barrel channel in stock

Pillar bed stock

Glass bed stock

Sling

Load ammo

Break in barrel

Mount target scope & test accuracy

Mount hunting scope and sight in

Ship

 

 

I got stuck last night on the feeding.

In the past, I have got 300 Win mag to feed perfectly, even up side down in am VZ24. To do that I made the mag longer in the rear and opened the lips.

 

So on the 243, I can cut the lips, weld the lips, block off some magazine in the rear, block some in the front, or a combination.

 

What did you do?

 

TIA

Clark

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Why the .243 Win? In a Mauser, the 6mm/.244 might be a better choice for feeding.

 

 

This is for a girl on the East coast that will use factory ammo, and I have a 243 reamer.

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I'd try a block at the rear, then widen the rails at the front to accomodate the wider shoulder of the .243.

 

Or, you can borrow a page from the Chileans who, when they converted to 7.62x51, blocked at the front and cheated by incorporating a feed ramp extension into the block.

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The only 243 that I have done was modified just as Z1R suggested. After opening the rails a little it fed fairly well. I found that my extractor was too tight against the cartridge and was causing some problems. After reducing the extractor tension it fed like it was made for it.

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