I just scored a beautiful C-ring 98 mauser so this looks like my action. Sure it's not a light weight, but I love Mausers and this should be a good home for my 6.5x55, I've been wanting to build.
I'm probably going to go Bansner for the stock, and Pac-Nor for the barrel. Any suggestions as to barrel contours, I'm hoping to hit 7 lbs. all up with the 13 oz. of scope and rings (that should give me plenty of weight for optics).
My thoughts when I saw this action was that with the work that my 9.3x62 on a FN 98 is getting, I should be able to make these rifles almost identical. Something about a matched pair of 9.3x62 and 6.5x55 with all the other componets being the same gives me the warm fuzzies!
