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Sunny Hill Enterprises and Sound Metal Products make hinged TG for the intermediate length, beautiful but a bit pricy. Bob

Try reesesurplus.com

Vlad, this gunsmith came up on Accurate Reloading and 24 hour campfire with a customer problem. looks like AR deleated it but there are bits and pieces of the discussion on 24 hr if you do a name search. maybe he changed contact info, but still does not justify no communications with a customer. Bob

Don, yours looks great, billingsley and brownell in wyoming always showed those in their gunsmithing ad in rifle magazine how fine is the checkering, lpi Bob

Hello WD, I was told they are Brazilian for the 1908 model and variants. Bob

Nice job of sporterizing, looks like a Herter's recoli pad with the z style white line and the stock also looks like one of Herters. Barrel still has the steps of the military contour. Looks to be made in the 60's-70's on a style that the owner favored. I happen to like the reworked military warhorses of that period, did a few myself. Yours is special as it belonged to Grand Dad. Keep it as is and enjoy it. Bob

Hi Bob, It could be a scrubbed Model 1935 Peruvian. I have one that is made by FN in Hertstal Belgique, serial # on left side of front receiver ring, notch in front receiver ring for .30/06 when rebarreled/rechambered, has the T tower and arrow belgium proofs next to and above the serial # and on the rear bridge their is stamped .30 for the .30/06 chambering. There could be a few other South American Mauser that got this treatment after WWII. HTH Bob H

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Hey Mike, looks great, was the front and rear rings surface ground? nice detail on the side rail, so many guys overlook that. Do you fish tail the sear slot ? With the tapered tang, the sear sometimes nicks up the slot or jumps the slot alltogether. Keep the pics commin. Bob H.

LC, Nice work, full length stocks always look classy. There is a old Outdoor Life Book by Jim Carmichel called Do-It-Yourself Gunsmithing and he has a chapter on Styling the European Sporter that is a full length stock with a mid-forend schnabel. Quite informative with lots of photos. The pics always helped me as sometimes it was tough to visualize what I wanted to accomplish. If you would like to borrow the book just let me know. Good Luck, Bob

Tradewinds Inc. of Tacoma Wa. who was the importer of the Husqvarna line of rifles, Barreled actions, actions, scopes etc. sold these in the 60's. That peep sight was called the Tradewinds Snap-Shooter and was designed to fit the factory drilled HVA actions."Micrometer click elevation adjustments, sliding windage adjustment with inset locking screws, no protruding knobs to distract the eye from the aperture". Francis Sell, the outdoors author, who was from the Washington-Oregon area wrote about and recommended these little gems. Bob

My 1910-1936 Mex. Tg's all have a small Y in a circle O at the base of the trigger bow. Never seen Mex's with the serial # stamped on the tang and plate but anything is possible. I have a Greek MS 1903-14 with a cross in a circle on it. Its similar but not exact. Will keep lookin

Just got some info from Andy @ Sunny-Hill that he would like passed along. "New TG assembly for Mex and Swedish Mausers will have integral magazine box, footprint will be the same or slightly larger than original. Thinning at rear wall of box to allow slightly longer cartridges adding .050-.060 to internal length. Can order direct , price the same as std. mauser boxes (499.) (my Wow). Dealer pricing available and expect to be done by end of April 08". Bob

Theres a company that rents the tap your lookin for at a reasonable price. I can't remember the name but it was on Accurate Reloading or 24 HR campfire. Maybe someone here knows, I'll keep lookin.

there is a complete Ghea bolt up for auction on Ebay 190083989012.

sonic, try Northwoodgunstock.com they show that pattern. I have not used them but have seen them recommended on AR forum. Bob

You could try New England Custom Guns in NH, they do a lot of repair work on the European Firearms and they are the USA agent for Recknagel, a German Parts house similar to our Brownells. If they don't have a FP lever they could steer you in the right direction. Good Luck Bob

The bolt jumps when fired if the notch is too deep. Get a welder to drop a bead in the notch and start over again. This time be careful, the original safety notch on a military 98 bolt is at 12 o'clock at the rear of the bolt and you can see it thru the bolt guide rib channel in the rear action ring. I use this as an indicator when the bolt is notched enough, give or take a RHC. Bob

If you can get ahold of a Recknagel Feintechnik catalog( Brownells of Germany), they sell everything Mauser related from the actions to the individual screws. New England Custom Gun is the U.S.A. importer. Wish I could read German but can understand the photos. On pg. 85 is acessories for K98 with a drawing of the bolt stop screw, "SchloBhalteschraube" ,(Abmessungen) M 4 x 19 x6.5, (part #00000-1170). The TG screws are listed as 1/4-22x39x10, 1/4-22x26x10, 1/4x22x37x10, 1/4x22x19.6x10. Even the Tg locking screws are listed as M 3.5 x 5 x 7. hope this helps Bob

Don, I picked up some metric button head screws a while ago that had an allen head drive. They were marked M4x20 but ran thru the 4mm-.75 die without a hitch. All I did was turn off the bottom 5/8" of thread to a point like the original and it worked fine. Looks good as a button top is rounded and the allen head is neat. I have a few left over and your welcome to try it if you like. Bob