Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Custom Rifles & Wildcats Any small ring mauser 98 customs out there?

I bought a Mexican SR'98 here several years ago. It was nicely sporterized with a fajen monte carlo stock & turned-down military barrel. I sent it to my 'smith to have a Dakota M70 style safety put on and here is what is nearly completed:

-#3 Shilen 9"-twist 7x57 cut to 23"
-re-heat treated receiver
-NECG front sight ramp
-Talley bases w/ flip-up aperture
-Glimm's knob
-Dakota 3-position
-Timney FW
-Leupold VX2 2-7x
-all rust blued
-new custom stock; not as fine a grade as pictured above, but beautiful and straight
-Supergrade sling studs
-checkering by Tim Smith-Lyon @ Classic Checkering

I've had it close to done for a while and, as y'all can imagine, I've been pretty darned excited for a while. Ran low on funds right at the end, so all I'm waiting on now is the checkering.

Really hoping to have it to post up pics & hunt w/ by this fall...

Efw,
That sounds like a very nice rifle. I have always wanted a Mexican Mauser. Tim-Smith Lyon @classic checkering is my checkering guy.
He is a great guy and does fantastic work, I highly recommend him!
I look forward to the pics when done.

irfubar. What do you consider a quick turnaround from the ones you mentioned? The work I've sent recently (Richard's MF and indirectly to PTG) is taking months. Thanks for your input.

Custom bolt,
Dave @ I.T.&D usually has an action rebarreled and returned to me within 4wks.
Tim @ classic checkering is 3 to 4 wks.
They have done many jobs for me and I am always happy with their work and the prices are more than fair.

Thanks. 3-4 weeks is fast. Have a good one.

Wow, that's exactly what I would build if I got around to it.

Let me know when it's for sale, warts and all.

Gentlemen,
Certainly some exqusite rifles. Working works of art I must say. Craftsmanship at its best. They make the hunt just a little more special. thaks for sharing them with us.

Here is an extra small ring in the middle of two other small rings.




Terry

Dang Terry! If you ever want to part with that one let me know. Also I don't think I have ever seen the bottom one with the 1/2 octagon barrel, what are the specs if you don't mind?

Terry, has exquisite taste in rifles, knows what a fine older Brno can be re-built into and has been a great guy for me to deal with on parts and help with contacting US 'smiths. His rifles come very close to my "ideal" designs in wooden stocked classic hunting pieces and I hope he continues to present them here in photos.

Since, I am in BC and a hardnosed, pragmatic old geezer, I now have only synthetic handled rifles built and since both my wife and I are retired, with the concommitant loss of income one expects from that, it is much easier in financial terms to afford all of the custom old Brnos, Husqies and P-64s I crave.

However, when I see Terry's photos, I begin to dream of having Ralf Martini build me a three rifle set on the pair of Brno 21H and the single Brno ZG-47 action(s) I have left from my stash of actions and with fine wooden stocks, probably a pair of 7x64 and a single 9.3x64 "critter getters".

The only real "problem" is the $60.000 it would cost to have this done........., SOB!

Thanks Kutaney.

Pacecars, the bottom rifle is built on a 1910 Mexican SR. It's chambered in 7X57. The metal work was done by Mark Stratton. It sits in a stunning piece of English walnut made by Chic Worthing.

Terry

Worth another look

Mike

My recently remodeled 7x57 Swede.

Stunning!

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I know it's an old thread, but sometimes things should be brought back...

My wife's deer rifle. A SR in .270-08 I built in the early 80's. I bought the action from Jerry Fisher for forty bucks back then. I whittled out the stock and Don Klein did the metal work, checkered and blued it. Barrel by Bob Snapp.

My wife started hunting with it in 1986. Since then she has kept the freezer full of venison with this little rifle. I load 130 gr. Nosler Ballistic Tips down to 2600 fps. (Sad experience has taught me that they blow up on a deer's shoulder at 3200.) This is the most accurate pure hunting rifle I have ever shot.

In Michigan we hunt in deer blinds and, after thirty years of hunting, the gun is still in 98% condition. I regard it as a family treasure.

Very nice and a great history behind it as well!

I will vouch for Roger Vardy.

Bumping this one to the top, as I'm on a quest to build a small ring rifle.