One more illustration of JB’s oft-repeated opinion that the best path to a Mauser sporter is via a commercial action. I’m waiting on my FFL guy’s quarrantine to be over so I can pick up my latest, a Heym. Looks to be a military action: clip guide, thumb cut and slide-off floorplate with bullet button, but I think the bolt handle looks reforged. Whatever it is, it looks good and I trust a company like Heym to do it correctly. At today’s labor rates, starting fresh with a military action or correcting someone else’s whoopsies adds up fast.
A few years ago there was one of the Kimber Mausers in a local used rack. .280 with a cheap plastic stock, fluted SS barrel, and military trigger guard with the sling hole. Military trigger too IIRC. $400 with a Bushnell Banner scope. Putting it right with a decent trigger and maybe a new FN slide-off floorplate would’ve put it up there with a decent used FN price-wise, and still it would’ve been a Frankenrifle.
