cougar69

Check out GB # 267432756. A 1909 Argentine action mauser sporter. This is when I wish I was rich, instead of good looking. LOL Also read why this dealer won`t take any bids from CA. folks or sell & ship anything to anybody living in CA. He speaks the truth IMO.

I`d say her hubby must of taught her well. She also had a 6 shooter.

I want to replace (weld) the bolt handle on my 03/38 turk. I know a heat sink has to inserted in the bolt. Can I use an alum rod instead of copper? I only ask because I have free access to the alum rods. Thank s in advance.

Hi

I hoped this worked. I just tried to attach two pictures.Hope they can be of use to you.

Greg

Looks like a small ring??? I have a 1903/38 & it is a large ring.

Got more blood on it this evening. Made a 100yd. neck shot on this gobler.

 

Nice shooting, fine looking rifle, & nice bird too.

Remember one thing, if you want nobama out, you have to vote for who ever is nomated for the GOP to run for Pres. even if you don`t like them.

When I refinish my stocks, I use Tung oil. When the wood won`t absurb anymore oil ( 2 coats) I put one or two more thin coats on & let dry for at least 3 days. It gets a hard glossy finish on it. Then I use steel wool 0000 to cut the gloss down & then rub it down with polish. When ever I handle my rifles or at the range, I wipe them down with one of those silicone impregnated cloths. I have to do a small repair on one of my stocks. What can I use to get the silicone off without marring the finish? Thanks in advance.

Hello, I'm new here and would like some input on a Turkish Mauser action that I have.

I have an action that I bought a few years ago planning to build into a sporter. I've never done anything like this before, I have always wanted to do it. I bought it from a guy on gunbroker, who listed it as a Turkish large ring Mauser with small ring threads, the hand guard extension has been removed, bolt face trued, and drilled and tapped for scope bases, if I remember correctly I think I paid 45.00 for it. I got it out the other day planning to start buying some parts to put it together, took some measurements on it and the barrel threads are large ring, with the hand guard extension removed, which leaves about 5 threads. I want to build it into a 6.5x55, would it be possible to use a short chambered barrel, and have a spacer/washer made to fill the gap between the front of the receiver and the barrel shoulder? would that be safe? Any input would be appreciated!

 

Hubert

Why wouldn`t it work? I`m seen it done before & it worked perfect. Just make sure it`s a hard material you make the spacer out of.

I watched it & it was pretty interesting. Also found out FDR was a coke head & had a mistress. LOL

I have tried those 1912 .308 Win barrels on a couple of Yugo Mausers, and find they don't time properly. Rather than coming up to about the 1 - 2 o'clock position, they go around to the 10 - 11 o'clock position. They seem to do better on standard Mauser 98s, than on the intermediate Yugos.

You have to put a spacer in between the barrel & reciever, differant thicknesses until it lines up were you want it.

I`m with you Dr Hess.

He did what he was supposed to do. God bless him & all our troops were ever they are & what ever they are doing.

Here is a pic of my 03/38 Turk, which is a fine shooter, that I sportized into a Mannlicher style. I installed a screw on bolt handle only because I haven`t found anyone were I live that I trust welding on it with the #`s matching the receiver & barrel. Will be replacing the trigger assy in the near future. The other one is my Interarms Mark X in 270W.

Please don't be offended by the following as it is not offered in offence.

 

The explanation while appearing thorough, is not complete. The analysis fails to take into consideration the reality of the use of "Turk '38s" for the last 50 years. Can ONE instance of ONE receiver "failing" because of too much pressure be cited? Even too much pressure that would have been too much of a modern Winchester, Ruger, or Remington? I certainly know of NONE. This "Turk '38" matter is akin to the boogey man of "low serial numbered" Springfields. Not a single one of the failures observed (in that case at least there WERE failures), being unequivocally assigned to "brittleness". Instead, the "failures" with actual objective data associated with them showed that the actions were "abused" by overloads or incorrect CALIBER bullets.

 

I was in the furniture-making business for a while and it sickened me to see the sleeze-bags that don't know which end of a hammer to hold telling people that the "value" of a piece of furniture was "ruined" by refinishing. The exact same elitism pervades the milsurp firearms community. ONE of the forms that elitism takes is "careful" "analysis" of particular firearms or actions with the pseudo-scientific conclusion being drawn that "rifle X must be constrained to these pressures", or "rifle Y is unsafe at any pressure". I've been down this path with damascus-barreled shotguns that all too many - completely ignorant of the REALITY of damascus-barreled shotguns - spew to all that will listen that damascus-barreled shotguns SHOULD NEVER BE SHOT! This in the face of the REALITY that there are professional shotgun competitions conducted throughout the nation every year for damascus-barreld shotguns ONLY. Some of them over 150-years old! All of the "arm-chair quarterbacking" is infuriating!

 

Of course it is reasonable to analyse what one wants to "play with". Unfortunately, this analysis tries to take on the "airs" of "scientific" or "engineering" study. IN FACT it is antithetical to "scientific" or "engineering" analysis because IT IGNORES THE ACTUAL FACTS!

 

Again, my comments are not intended to offend, but to point out that one considering using one of these "old" actions should review ALL of the information on the subject before they decide what they want to do, and to put voice to my frustration at what is presented as "considered analysis" when in fact it ignores the single most important piece of information: ACTUAL USE.

 

This matter is by no means confined to "Turk '38s". Martini-Henry actions are so much stronger than what the "experts" report that they should be embarrassed to even rear their heads.

 

It is important for me to make this final point, but it will be COMPLETELY IGNORED anyway:

 

I AM NOT ADVOCATING DRIVING OLD ACTIONS TO PRESSURES ABOVE THOSE OF WWII BATTLEFIELD FIREARMS.

 

Off course that comment will be completely ignored by those that want to be an "expert" and fight about it.

 

I have, SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF TESTING THE EDGES OF THE ENVELOPE, "pushed" just about every old military action I have WAY beyond WWI military ammunition pressures. None of them even "bent" let alone "broke". However, I am "nobody". Read Ackley about military actions. He ain't exactly "nobody". I HATE "pushing" old actions around. There is NO GOOD REASON FOR IT. NONETHELESS I'm not going to LIE about it just because I think it is the "wrong" thing to do. It's the "wrong" thing to do because there is no NEED, NOT because IN ANY WAY is it ANY more "dangerous" than it is to push a "modern" Winchester or Remington action around.

 

The TRUTH is what is important.

 

And I AM NOT calling ken98k a liar, so don't say I have!

 

I'm 60-years old. I spent at least half of my life listening to firearms "experts" only to find out that with precious few exceptions - P.O. Ackley being one of them - they were liars or idiots. I'm sick of it. I wish there had been some "forum" when I was a young man for someone like P.O. Ackley to call "baloney" on the mythology that I spent decades finding out for myself. It is for "some young man" that I voice my opinions and experience, and offer this unsolicited advice:

 

There is no better reason to believe what I have written above than what anyone else has written.

You MUST find your own truth.

"Lots of" of people saying something DOES NOT MAKE IT TRUE.

"Published" in some magazine DOES NOT MAKE IT TRUE. Sadly, there are people lining up to convince you of their "expertness".

Listen to your "elders", and find the truth out for yourself.

With all due respect

Paul

gitano, I`m with you on this. You are right on.

To me, it looks like an 03/38 turkish mauser.

Good evening all. I picked up a new gun at work the other day after telling some guys about building off mauser actions. One guy said he had one that he would sell me cheap; and the next day he brought me this. Is it a Columbia model 50, or a 24/30. Its standard length, 30-06 on the barrel, looks like small ring, but I can't remember which model has the bullet cut, and the crest appears scrubbed with no other markings except a serial number and what looks like three circles with a verticle line (like a clover).

 

It does have a lot of surface rust, but no under the stock line pitting. I figured for $50 bucks, I couldn't pass it up. It has a sporter stock on it that is rough but not cracked and may clean up nicely.

 

Brenden