Maybe I'm in the minority here, but after spending 40-something years building Mauser sporters on milsurp actions, the 798 was a huge disappointment. The ones I've seen were poorly machined, badly finished, and basically a poor-quality clone of a real Mauser. That's particularly true of pre-WW II rifles, before the pressure of wartime production demands resulted in less than optimum quality control at the various arsenals that were producing 98 actions. Some of the Orberndorf rifles from the mid-1930's, even the military production ones, were works of art that shoot. The commercial Mausers were even better.
Jerry
