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Very Nice Roger! Hope to see it in person in a couple of months!

As far as I am concerned, that's the most fun thing you can do with a Mosin Nagant; trade it in on a Mauser.

As Pacrat said, the scope base was crudely fitted to that receiver. The rear hole on the receiver ring is in the lug web or maybe even on the seat. Snap a pic of the lugseats. More mportantly, the hole spacing is off. Should be .860" and looks be .500" or so. The hole on the rear bridge should not "normally" be on the charger hump but behind it. No biggie because if you recountour you can pace a second hole .500" behind it.

Not a stupid question at all. The fact that you were thinking about feed issues shows you were thinking. When you consider the cost of custom dies these days, wildcats like this are very expensive. You'd need a reamer $150, gages $50, dies up to $200 plus the barrel, chambering, & fitment. The .308 isn't that hard to make feed, neither is the .30-06. The 7.65x53 is a .308 equivilent but with .311" bullets as gunnutty said.

Cuz UPS don't deliver to PO boxes.

Why does the bolt need replacing?

Me, I'd forego the .35 Remin Favor of either the 9x57 or .358 Win. Either can be handloaded to duplicate the Rem's performance with 100% feeding & extracting reliability. Yea, not quite sure what's going on with teh 6,5 barrel????

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It will fit, it just won't look correct.

Me, I would send it down the road and get a good looking action. Structurally, it's most likely fine. But, I hate to see someone build a nice rifle on an action that, once finished, they may not feel is as nice as the rest of the rifle. Three holes in the siderail and front ring for a side mount scope. You can unplug the one in the front ring and call it a gas port. It really all depends on what "caliber" rifle you want. By that I mean grade rifle you want to end up with. As I said, structurally....probably fine. If that scope is toast, I'd be interested in buying the turret caps off of you.

I'm so sorry to hear about your loss. You gave good advice, advice I try to follow. All the best, Mike

How the heck do you shoot that without sights?

I'm pretty happy, especially when I get to buy a new rifle.

The most popular small bore I'm asked to make is the 6.5x55. The 7x57 is also a very easy conversion, in fact, it can be a tad easier than the 6.5 which is pretty simple itself.

This is really only an issue with Eddystones.

Not that expensive and not that difficult.

All the parts you need can be found at Brownells, or NECG.

The thing to realize is that yes, on Takedown or Switch barrel mausers the barrels are screwed in hand tight such that no tools are required. However, these also rely on some other device to keep the barrel from unscrewing. The Simplest, a screw in the receiver ring to keep the barrel stationary. The more complex being a takedown lever similar to those on nice double barrels

You really don't, they require much more effort to make look good than a Mauser. What cal WERE you thinking of?

Lothar walther does.

Jerry, You have our thoughts and prayers.

Yup, lost the Turkey coops. Like I said, he's a tough man, just found another horse to climb back on top of. Work keeps him busy but he does check in from time to time to read. Like many of us, too much work and not enough time for our projects but at least we have work. It's been fun being able to meet some of the forum members.

Manureman was driving through town and called so I met him for a cup of coffee. Spent a good couple of hours just talking and killing time. A nice way to spend the afternoon. He's a hell of a nice guy that seems to have rebounded from that awful winter several years ago. Works keeps him busy so like many of us he gets little time on the forum. Thanks for the cup of coffee Jim!

Zastava is made in what is now Serbia in the town of Kragujevac. Brno is in what is now the Czech Republic.

VZ24's were not made by Zastava in what used to be Yugoslavia, they were made by Brno in what used to be Czechoslovakia. Zastava did offer the Interams Mk X in .300WM, as did they on their Charles Daly made rifles, and the Rem 798 all of which are Zastava made actions. The Zastava logo is a zcz inside a circle that can look like a CZ, the two are often confused but they are NOT the same. the parts will work in most cases as they are considered standard 98 actions.