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Sure. Got a spare $6500 burning a hole in your pocket? I cheaped out and bought a Brno 21H - but it is heavier.

No, I don't have any pics of the action. E

I have a 98 Mauser in .30/06, 24" Parker-Hale barrel, that weighs slightly under 6 3/4 lbs dressed in nothing but a Lyman 48 receiver sight. Slip the re-conditioned Weaver K2.5 onto the Griffin&Howe side mount and it's still under 7 1/2 pounds. Low weight is due mainly to the dainty Euro-style stock, with horn buttplate and grip cap. It's an honest MOA rifle but recoil is a bi*ch with full throttle loads. To put the pleasure back into firing it I load a modest 42gr. H4895 under a Sierra 165 BTHP. My point is be careful what you ask for in a lightweight rifle, if your shoulders are arthritic like mine and sensitive to recoil!

I know what you mean. My elk loads are 200 gr. NP's over 59 grs. of H4831SC. Good thing the stock is pretty straight because it comes back right smart. Glad I didn't do the 9.3X62 was originally planned on doing, or a .338 WM. E

I have a K98, 1915 Erfurt action in .257 Roberts. The stock is a schnabel forend that is very thin. It wears a Nikon Monarch 3-9x40 sitting in Leupold steel rings and one piece base. It has an aluminum alloy hinged triggerguard and Bold trigger. I've never weighed it but by feeling it, it does weigh less than my Marlin XS7 in 7mm-08 with Burris Fullfield 30mm 3-9x40 in steel mounts. The XS7 is supposed to be 6.25# bare, scope is 15 oz and who knows on the mounts.

Just examined one, and it does.

FAIL...from your beloved Remington website:

A modern variant of a timeless classic, the Model 799 Mini-Mauser is available in five traditional short action chamberings (.22 Hornet, .222 Remington, .22-250 Remington, .223 Remington and 7.62x39mm). The Model 799 features many of the same characteristics of the Model 798 including solid steel receivers and trigger guards as well as a single stage trigger with two position safety. The Model 799 forgoes the heavy non-rotating claw extractor for a Sako-style extractor well suited for feeding and extracting smaller cartridges.

Link . Paragraph 4

RH

semantics....the extractor is nothing like a Sako extractor.

It's definitely not a Mauser extractor.

Ted

Another lie from the Swampman.

The true hallmarks of a Mauser action are a full length claw extractor and CRF.

The 799 has neither.

But then Swampy can't tell a CRF from a PF anyway.

They have the claw extractor on the early models.
I have wanted one for years,Daily brought them into this country before Rem did.

The Mini-Mausers have a long, non-rotating guide rib on the side of the bolt where a Mauser claw extractor goes. If you are not looking at it just right, it appears to be a long, non-rotating Mauser claw extractor.

There is a photo half-way down this page, with a Mini-Mauser below a real Mauser, showing how similar they look. Page two of the article has a photo comparing the bolts.

http://www.rifleshootermag.com/featured_rifles/rem798_091406/

Bruce

It has both.

All that matters to me is that I'm right, and I always am.

There is nothing cheap about a Brno 21.

Mini-Mauser bolt

No it doesn't and no you're not!

Except in your own mind that is.

Swampy, read the article BCP posted and then tell me how right you are.

I'm always right.

A different lwt Mauser (4lbs. 12oz.)

http://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9411043/m/5761055541?r=2701095541#2701095541

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I know you enjoy your little games, but some younger guys actually come here to learn. You are an absolute dumbphuck and you know less about firearms than I did at age 12. So pretty please, with sugar on top, shut the [bleep] up.


Travis