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22-243. I got it at a pawn shop for a ridiculously low price because I convinced the owner that he would NEVER sell the rifle in that caliber!
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing -- Edmund Burke
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I have lost track of how many Mauser 98s I have seen with Remington 700 barrels on them over the years.
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Have 2 LH Rem 700 parts rifles! Mtn contour take off barrels LW and accurate.
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Here's a recent "parts gun"..... Started as an cheap/beater ADL in 243. Swapped bbl for a 20" M600 308 bbl I picked up for $25. Action and crown trued up, bedded, rubber butt pad and forend cut a bit shorter for better proportion. I like it!
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I purchased a Frankenmauser from my gunsmith buddy that has parts from multiple rifles. The bbl started life as a Win M54 in 22 Hornet. According to all the strikeouts on it, it was rechambered to a larger 22 rimmed round (22 Wasp?), then rebored to 25 caliber and rechambered twice more, ending up as a 25-35 with a screwed up shank that could not be used on a large ring action any more. He found it in a barrel full of ruined barrels in TN and bought it for $5. After laying around his shop for years, be finally machined the shank to fit a small shank, large ring Turkish 98 action and rechambered it to 250-3000. It has FN bottom metal, a sporterized 98 military stock from heaven knows where, a Timney trigger, a barrel band from a No 1 Ruger, a recoil pad from a M77 Ruger, and maybe bits and pieces from elsewhere. Shoots like a ball'o'fire, too.
I have other parts rifles, but I think this 250-3000 tops them for diversity.
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Hook,
You have any pics of that beast?
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
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Here's a recent "parts gun"..... Started as an cheap/beater ADL in 243. Swapped bbl for a 20" M600 308 bbl I picked up for $25. Action and crown trued up, bedded, rubber butt pad and forend cut a bit shorter for better proportion. I like it! I like that a lot! Good blueprint. One of my parts rifles went the other way, mating a 660 action to a 700 take-off barrel. Then I had a Model 7 pattern stock inlet for it by McMillan.
Now with even more aplomb
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I have have two minty 1909 Argentine's that I bought years ago at a pawn shop for a song with the thought of doing something similar. They are still in the closet... WAIT!!! Leave them in the closet and don't alter them. Those South American Mauser 98s (Argentine 1909s, Brazilian 1907s, Peruvian, etc. are collectors articles and are disappearing fast. This I know. i was shooting a 1891 argentine up at quemato a few years ago, it was kind of a hoot. mainly because i had a stash of argentine ammo from the 20's and 30's. sometimes you had to wait a while to get ignition. I think they are about the finest mausers built. and due to people bubba'ing them, those with all correct markings including the clasped palms are getting rather rare. the argentines themselves were grinding off that palm clasp in providing them for the border wars down there.
THE BIRTH PLACE OF GERONIMO
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I like that a lot! Good blueprint. One of my parts rifles went the other way, mating a 660 action to a 700 take-off barrel. Then I had a Model 7 pattern stock inlet for it by McMillan. Thanks ..... I would have used a Model Seven but there doesn't seem to be a lot on the used market here. This one weighs 7.5lbs as shown. A bit heavier than I hoped but the walnut is dense and the M600 bbl is a bit more stout than the original 700 bbl. Either way, it handles very well so the extra weight is no problem.
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Thanks, guys. It just may show up in a book sometime soon, along with various other related articles.
One of my writing mentors told me long ago to always remember the average guy--and the average guy usually doesn't buy expensive custom rifles. Which is one reason I learned to make my own walnut stocks in the 1990's, and put together parts rifle today. But it's also because I like to save money too, though it's mostly so I can spend more on other gun stuff! John, By chance, would the Mexican Mauser that you wrote about in this article be the same one that you sold to my in 2003? Jeff
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Thought that it might be.
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