Home Forums Hunting & Shooting The Lefty Forum Couple of reshaped mini Mauser stocks finally done

Finally got around to finishing the stock on one of my mini mausers so I thought I would post some photos of both of mine. The wood looked extremely plain when they first arrived but had some pretty decent wood once it was reshaped and properly finished.

The 7.62x39 still needs to have the front sight and swivel stud blued and some feeding issues worked out.

One day if I get good enough I’ll checker them as well

Enjoy!

Very nice work, thank you for sharing photos. What is the other rifle chambered for?

Thanks, it’s in 223

They look great. Really like the barrel bands. Did you find you prefer the larger or smaller of the two cheek pieces?

Zastavas? Very nice. I redid the fastory wood on my Zastava 223 how do they feed and function?

Nice job

I like them. Keep us updated.

I like the grain pattern on the .223. Looking good !

Thanks for the kind words! I’m honestly not sure on which cheek piece I prefer. The smaller one I actually had my wife draw a line around where my cheek actually touched when I was shouldering it and just made it slightly bigger than that. I was little worried I made it way to small but it didn’t turn out to bad.

And yes they are both zastavas.


The 223 feeds well and is pretty accurate as well.

I literally just finished the stock on the 7.62 x39 so not sure on accuracy but it doesn’t feed well at all. Gonna have to figure that out for sure.

Both are getting new larger handles as I can’t stand the tiny ones that come on them

Nicely done; the stocks are terrible from the factory on those. Looks vastly improved.

My LH Zastava 223 reshaped wood some of them had great wood hiding!

Had 40X Dan in Fairbanks lengthen bolt handle did a great job as usual.

Your rifle has the best wood I have seen in any of these. It’s actually the reason I decided to strip mine down and see what was underneath, so thanks for the inspiration

Dang.....NICE WORK. Love the wood finish on both stocks.

Those look awesome. Good job!

Wow, beautiful work, KK.

I have lh 6.5 grendel iwould also like to go to a bigger bolt. What kind of job is it?

Send it to Dan in Fairbanks tell him you want a longer bolt handle.
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Second on Dan he built and installed mine fair price and excellent craftsmanship

I really like that 7.62x39. I wish I had bought one when they were more available. And cheaper.

I'd be tempted to add a three leaf express sight to compliment that barrel band and front sight.

Love them

Good job on the reshaping and finish. The wood grain on the 223 is really nice. I sold mine many years ago. Wish I had it back.

Mart,

I have really consider installing the express type rear sight but I’m not sure if it would kinda screw me in the end since I would like to use this gun mostly for plinking with whatever ammo I can find. If after shooting it with a variety of ammo they mostly shoot to the same point of aim at 50 yards I will probably install an express rear with one fixed and one folding leaf.

If all the ammo shoots radically different then I’ll just stick to the adjustable rear

The right amount of money will buy my 223 LH Mini Mauser it never gets any use!