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Originally Posted by xausa
It may not look like much, compared with all the real custom rifles pictured here, but this is my go-to deer rifle, a Douglas featherweight barrel in 7X57 on a G33/40 action, with a Fajen stock, Dayton Traister trigger and Buehler safety. It has been to Africa, where it accounted for plains game up to and including wildebeest, and this record book Peter's gazelle. The scope is a 4X Lyman All American PermaCenter with post and crosshair reticle.

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Originally Posted by xausa
On a different level, this is my .505 Gibbs, built for me by Lon Paul on a double square bridge Granite Mountain Mauser action. The scope mount and receiver sight are by Smithson.

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Some awesome rifles there guys!!!!


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These are some beautiful rifles for sure! I've got a Zastava/Charles Daly/Rem 798/Interarms X barreled receiver and I can't decide which direction to go on a stock. I love the beautiful wood on these and have had several variations of Boyd's Platinum stocks in my cart, but can't seem to pull the trigger. I'm also considering a Bell and Carlson Medalist for an even more bombproof and utilitarian configuration.


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What is barreled action chambered for and what is your intended use for the rifle?


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It's a 30-06 and the intended use is to have "a Mauser in the stable," hahahaha--I've already got a ton of other guns, but was drawn to the nostalgia of it.


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My vote goes to a Boyd’s Platinum in XX Claro. It won’t be as breathtaking as a some of the customs posted here, but could still have a rugged but classy look that ticks the “Mauser in the stable” boxes.

A B&C stock is more deserving of a Walmart ADL and a Kyrlon camo job. Mausers deserve better. wink


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That was kind of my initial thought...I don't want the stock to cost more than the barreled action itself, so I can't spring for the XX Walnut. On Boyd's Facebook page, they have a Remington 798 in Maple that looks REALLY good. I was going to do nutmeg laminate for stability and weatherproofing along with black fore end cap and fleur de lis checkering. I guess to throw in the mix, too, I just got done putting together a Rem 700 SPS 30-06 in a Grayboe stock. So I guess I've got the utilitarian angle covered.


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Do the Boyds nutmeg laminate and go hunting.


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Originally Posted by 222Rem
A B&C stock is more deserving of a Walmart ADL and a Kyrlon camo job. Mausers deserve better. wink

You're right! ....... I have three B&C stocks and all are filled with 700s.

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That was kind of my initial thought...I don't want the stock to cost more than the barreled action itself, so I can't spring for the XX Walnut. On Boyd's Facebook page, they have a Remington 798 in Maple that looks REALLY good. I was going to do nutmeg laminate for stability and weatherproofing along with black fore end cap and fleur de lis checkering. I guess to throw in the mix, too, I just got done putting together a Rem 700 SPS 30-06 in a Grayboe stock. So I guess I've got the utilitarian angle covered.


I had a nutmeg on a Mauser and not only was the refinement less than desirable but the weight was unbearable. There was tons of extra material left on the stock and it had a very clubby feel.

My son has a Turk in a standard walnut Prairie Hunter w/ their laser checkering and it’s quite nice IMHO. A lot better looking and feeling than the nutmeg I had.

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This is what had me thinking nutmeg--I can't afford the extra scratch for a maple like this one, but I do like the lighter color (and I really want the resilience of the laminate.) The prairie hunter I have on my Ruger Tang M77 is a nice stock, but I wanted something along these lines.

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Originally Posted by shrapnel


I never cared much for the Mauser action, they seem to be a bit overbuilt. I saw this one and couldn't pass it up. It is a Mac McCain custom done in 257 Roberts. A gorgeous gun in a classic cartridge. To dress up that Mauser bolt, I had a local gunsmith color/case the bolt shroud and the grip cap and buttplate. It is certainly a beautifully functional gun...

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Dude, that is some beautiful wood right there. A 257 Bob is one of my all time favorite cartridges. You can take anything from squirrels to elk with that thing.


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Oh hell, what happened to my post! It went to cyber space heaven. Anyway, My Mausers are all utilitarian except a couple. I'v got one that I am still working on. It's a Zastava Charles Daly Commercial 98 chambered in 7X57. A guy gave me a stock he thought would fit. He gave me the stock while my action and barrel were at my gunsmith's for 5 months getting the barrel screwed in, chambered and head spaced. While all that was going on I finished the stock with about 10 or 11 coats of True oil. It was beautiful and satin finished. I finished it out with 1000 then 1200 grit paper. When my gun smith got through I had finished the stock. But when I put it in the stock it didn't fit. I spent a couple of months fitting it and when I finished fitting it it looked like chit. So now I'm refinishing it.

Anyway, still working on iI have another that's a Yugo 24/47 that I had my gun smith rebarrel and chamber in .257 AI. I put it in a Boyds stock and finisbhed it myself. But I want to refinish it to a satin finish also.

I have another Yugo 24/47 that i had my smith sporterize but Kept the Military 8x57 barrel on it. It's still stepped down. I didn't do any refinish on it. I had meant to rebarrel it to a 6mm barrel later on but I liked the 8x57 cbambering so much I kept it as is. I put it in a Boyd's Pepper Laminate stock and it's still like that. The Military bluing was good enough for what I wanted this rifle to be. It's sort of a beater but it's accurate and it's a killer so I kept it like that. \
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I also have a Mauser I had built on an old 98 action I got with 4 other actions for $25 back in 1988 from Fed Ord. I had an ER Shaw 26" 7mm barrel screwed in it and chambered in .280 Remington and added a Timney sporter trigger with a safety and put it in a B&C stock. I also had it blued. I've had several scopes on it through the years and it presently has a Leupold VX-3i 3.5-10 X40 on it. It shoots good and it's a hunter. Not beautiful like those on here, but a nice functional rifle. It's killed a few pigs and deer, but I usually grab my old Model 70 .270 as my go to gun for deer. But this one's a good one.

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I picked this rifle up in the ‘fire ‘fieds back in the summer of 2008 from TJ3006 for a song. It was a 7x57 with a Timney safety & nicely turned military tube in a pale walnut Weatherby-style Fajen.

I sent it to my gunsmith to have a Dakota 3-position safety installed, and it was suggested that perhaps I ought to consider recutting the chamber & re-heat treating the receiver too. I agreed, and the thing morphed into an 8”-twisted Shilen #3 CM cut to 23” in 7x57 in a custom stock with Talley flip-up peep.

Over the past 12 years it morphed even more (after getting to the point of being ready to rust blue!) and the time lapsed is due to my fickle tastes and sporadic funds not my gunsmith’s speed.

Today it has the 3-position Dakota safety, re-heat-treated receiver, G33/40 left side rail cuts, altered tang eliminating the need for a Mauser notch and allowing for a more open grip, Glimm’s engraved knob, Timney FW trigger, Rock Creek #1 contoured SS cut-rifled 1-in-9” twisted barrel in .257 Roberts, McM Hunter’s Edge stock, and Birdsong’s Black T coating.

What is missing is S&K contoured bases/rings & jeweled bolt the former of which is in process the latter going to happen after coyote season. It’s currently wearing a Burris Fullfield E1 German 3P#4 3-9x 40mm w/ illuminated dot which I like a lot for deer & coyote but after first range trip I see it won’t allow the precision I want when testing out potential of a new rifle so after coyote season I’ll change it for a Ballistic Plex model.

I had to send the barreled action to McM for custom inletting and even tho I mentioned the fact that I’d had the tang recontoured to avoid the unsightly notch there is one there anyway. Also notice the unfortunate job on the front of the bottom metal? For the amount of money I spent on custom inletting I expected better.

At any rate I’m just back from it’s first range trip and loving the overall feel of the rifle. The temporary mounting system (Burris Sig Zee Medium height & weaver standard aluminum bases) is a lot heavier than I’d like but that’ll be corrected with the S&K.

Really looking forward to getting after the dogs over the next couple of weeks and I’ll be posting more as I hope to see what 90 GR Sierra HP GKs do you the dogs at 3300-ish FPS!


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Mike cut me a super tight chamber and I can’t even size my existing stock down to fit so I’ll be putting it all up for sale in the classifieds.

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Not for not but couldn't you just have the chamber recut?


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If the problem is that the previously fired brass was fired in what amounts to an oversized chamber, why would you have this one recut when it functions perfectly fine with new brass or brass fired in THAT chamber?

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Yeah sorry that last quip was unclear. The reamer Mike used is great I just couldn’t reuse brass from past rifles have to use new stuff.

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Originally Posted by efw
Yeah sorry that last quip was unclear. The reamer Mike used is great I just couldn’t reuse brass from past rifles have to use new stuff.


So what you're saying is you have a correctly chambered Mexi Mauser to hunt with, and the old brass you have may have been run through a crappy oversize chamber not worthy of using again......

IMO most chambers are not cut reasonably small enough to not show a bubble just in front of the web. Undersize brass is also a nagging chronic problem as well.

In today's world SAAMI should tighten it's standards and EXPECT ammo and rifle manufactures to EASILY produce to a new, tighter norm.


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This was a case of love at first sight. I ended up trading three rifles for it. It is .416 Rigby Magnum, built on an original Oberndorf Magnum Mauser action by Dennis Erhardt.
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